Variety Club Christmas Party
Every year, The Variety Club hosts a very big Christmas party for disabled children. Zoë attended this party, along with her classmates. They went into the city on the bus and had a fantastic time.
It was a carnival theme, and Zoë was very animated about the "merry go wound". Turns out there were several merry-go-rounds and she rode them all. She also ate fairy floss (cotton candy in American dialect) and a hot dog, and she might have eaten some other sort of food that she just didn't tell us about. And she came home with a very big (and useful) canvas bag full of presents! One of them was a brand new Bratz doll, which she loves and which she introduced to her birthday dolly, when I suggested they could be friends. (I have to admit, I haven't been a fan of the Bratz dolls - I think they look like tarts - but this one is pretty cute. She's all dressed for bed, in pyjamas and a robe and slippers on her feet.)
The hardest part was trying to explain to Miranda why Zoë got to go to a carnival and came home with a bunch of presents. I think Miranda is starting to understand that Zoë is unusual (Miranda does know that Zoë doesn't talk very well and needs to have therapy to help her learn how). I just told Miranda that the party was for disabled children, and Miranda, of course, wanted to know what "disabled" means, so I told her it means people who have something they can't do as well as some other people, for example, they might be blind and can't see, or they might be deaf, or they might be unable to walk, or, as with Zoë, they might not be able to talk.
Zoë, of course, doesn't care why she got to go to the big party. All she knows is there were merry-go-rounds and her schoolfriends and other kids were there and she got a hot dog and fairy floss and presents!
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