Caiden playing army with his Hamster

Caiden can be kind of hard to understand. Often times when we make him stop playing video games, he'll say in a sheepish voice, "Then what can I do?" Being that we want him to be creative and think of things to do, we tell him to "be creative and think of something to do". He gets frustrated and often times says he can't think of one thing to do.

Same with school when his teacher would have him free-write about anything. He would have a blank piece of paper after 20 minutes stating that he could not think of anything to write.

Then, there are times where he's consumed for hours with something. I'll go into this room and find 1000 tiny green army guys all lined up in formation facing 1000 chess pieces, or maybe empty bullet shells stacked up on end as if they're some sort of action figure. He'll play with them for hours, then want to spend 30 minutes describing the battle that just took place. It's cute, but very time consuming and often tries my patience, but I know he needs someone to listen.

Well, last night after Alene cleaned Henry's (Caiden's hamster) cage, Caiden had been watching him and wanted to continue to watch him. He had a "battle" that involved henry. He kept Henry at bay with food and water under one of his army helmets. At first his tiny army guys were attacking Henry, but then they became under attack from a larger force, so they turned around and started fighting back with Henry. Pretty intense.

Here are a couple of pictures (this particular battle was actually very small-scale):