Autism Mom to the rescue!

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I was going to clean out the medicine cabinet and TRY to straighten up the laundry room but An Adventure in Autism came up. 

We had to replace Gracie's mini ipad that she uses at home for speech this week. Why? Because the home button had become "gooed" up ( A term we use for covered in Gracie gak) She touched her fingers to her mouth ALOT and THEN touches the ipad buttons so you can understand how it died. Add to the fact that she's chucked it over the railing more times than I can count(she pitches it if the battery runs out)!and it had an understandably early demise. 

So we got a new ipad (because iPads can't be fixed- they are all one piece--just saved you a trip to the Apple Store) but they give you a special replacement price. 

Anyway, we thought we had the thing squared away, even with her assistive program, when she took it up to bed. 

Two nights she cried and banged and hollered and I couldn't figure out why. Cold? Headache? Stomach?

Then it dawned on me this morning - her special listening music- classical music and bird sounds hadn't downloaded onto the new ipad. Why? I had burned it on FROM a cd so it didn't register as "purchased music"!! ( Thank you Apple) 

So now I can't even find it in my phone or computer because they both recently had updates. You have to be a rocket scientist who reads minds to navigate Apple sometimes. 

So Chris brainstorms- try the old Mac that we gave Joy that she didn't use- sure enough --It was there

But how do I get it from there to the new ipad? It wasn't recognizing the new ipad so I couldn't get it to transfer. 

So after 

1) an hour trying to figure it out 

2) a call to Apple care

3) a tech telling me to update the old computer( I thought I'd lose the songs). 

4) going through Chris' office closet to find blank CDs older than Joy

I organized the songs into playlists and try to burn them onto the blank CDs.

I get one that worked so I hold my breath 

and go to the current computer

- It works! Then I go to check it and miraculously all three that I did are there!!!! I was so relieved that I just let the music play on the ipad. 

So it took me from 10:30 at the Apple Store to 2:30 to figure it out.

Autistic kids are all about ritual. You try to break as many as you can but some are too important to break. Grace has been sleeping with music with bird sounds since her cleft lip repair when she latched onto one of those crib lullaby things- she went through three of them and after they went she began to play the classical bird music on her ipad as she fell asleep. 

It took her a minute or so to realize that her music was actually playing on her new-looking ipad. Then she gave me a smile. ❤️ she was probably thinking "Well, it took you long enough"