music together...

We were in a music group called "Music Together" - it was the one activity that the 3 of us always did together every weekend! Hunter has always loved music and this was a super fun class to experience as a family, especially in the beginning, just the 3 of us, the 3 musketeers. We sat in a circle, played with instruments, sang songs and danced together. Hunter did not like to sit down, in fact he was the only one that would not sit but the teacher was really good about it. He was always moving when the music was on, almost moving to the beat. He learned the songs really quick and would hum them in a perfect key, we thought it was amazing and lovely. Hunter did not like when a song would end, or when it was out of order and there were a few meltdowns but his meltdowns usually happened in relation to music and not in our everyday life. There was also one point during one particular song with a really strong beat, that he banged his head on the floor and said, "I'm okay" - I am grateful that he never continued with that behavior, but during that song, it always seemed to happen whether we were at class or home. I remember talking to the music teacher and telling her about what the woman at the playground had said to me, she then looked at me with a really serious face and said that she had thought about it too based on some of the things she saw him exhibit in class, and also from another student similar to Hunter that was just recently diagnosed. That was a sad day for me...