Dawson's baby

Sometimes Dawson has to come to church activities with me. We did an activity where we handed out water balloons and told the children that they were to be treated as a baby. The objective was to see how long each  lasted with out being popped. Dawson was given a balloon too! Out of all the 8-11 year old's, he was the only child left with a balloon. He took it sooo seriously that when we got home from church we put it in a container to be safe. 

 Over the weeks it went the way of all water balloons.

Now we just need to figure out how to get rid of it with out him being too upset! 

I just asked him now that it popped can we throw it away?? He adamantly said, "NO" why? be tuzz it's my baby!!!

so here is sits on my kitchen counter, because its his "BABY"

He has also told us that when we do have a baby that if any kids are not nice to the baby at the park he is going to punch them in the face. So we talked about "appropriate punching" and with Dawson's questions we all three came to the conclusion that there are sometimes that you may need to punch someone in a life or death situation but not at the park. There we told him to walk away if someone is not being nice and to take his baby with him!! We also told him to focus on the nice kids at the park so that he can make friends with them. We also talked about conflict resolution, I think it went well.