Playing Basketball With Robots

I got an ear-full from Joshua on our way to Little Rock this morning. Even tho I LOVE to sing along with K-LOVE on the radio, I almost always turn it off and just concentrate on the road...and on Joshua's conversation.

This morning, I asked him how it was going with his story writing.

I've written about this before. From my experience, many kids/adults with Down Syndrome have a "thing." Jenni's "thing" is that she writes baby-names. She has 10,000 notebooks full of neatly penned names...first and middle names. Writing those keeps her calm and adds structure to her day. As with anything, with them, it can become addicting...and her family works hard to involve her in other activities.

About 1 1/2 years ago, when Faith graduated from High School, I kept the bulletin with all the names in it and gave it to Jenni one day. She was thrilled because of all.the.names.

Joshua used to write poems...or "songs," as he called them. Then, for some reason, he started writing these stories. I've joked about the fact that they make NO SENSE to anyone but him, but it's true. He takes scenes and characters from his favorite movies and TV shows, like "Star Wars," "Harry Potter," "Twilight," "Frozen," "Boy Meets World," "Full House," etc...and he "morphs" them into similar characters with similar names in his soon-to-be-made-movie. He is convinced that Alex Kendrick (Facing the Giants, Courageous, Fireproof, etc) is going to pick up his story and turn it into a movie that will make a zillion dollars.

Write on, baby...write on!

This morning, he started telling me about what he's writing now. He said that he made our friends, Aaron and Tori, a part of his story, and they are wearing regular t-shirts and regular shorts. Then, he added "our" Aaron (the son-in-law) to his story, and put him in regular shorts and a cut-off Razorback t-shirt.

Side note: for some reason, it is very important what each character wears. He always talks in great detail about what his characters are wearing, and he always puts Aaron in some sort of cut-off t-shirt. He used to say that he was putting Aaron in a 1 inch t-shirt. Aaron and Holly tried to make him see how that is "fiscally" (how Joshua says the word "physically") impossible...even showing him how little a 1 inch shirt is, but Joshua wasn't budging on it...UNTIL Aaron said, "okay...I'M going to start writing stories of my OWN, and I'm going to put YOU in a DRESS."

That did not go over well...so now Joshua puts Aaron in a cut-off Razorback t-shirt.

BUT, that's not even the best part. He said, "me and Logan and Clark are all wearing Speedos."

WHAT KIND OF STORY IS THIS?

I said, "and so what is everyone doing?" And he said, "playing basketball with robots."

Ooooooooooooookay.

Alex? (knock, knock) Alex Kendrick?

"Remember the wonderful works He has done..." Psalm 105:5