A beautiful family

Getting family pictures taken when you have more than one child is hard enough. Throw a little ASD in there and it can be IMPOSSIBLE. I suggest to everyone, find a nice photographer that will come to you. We used to go to Sears and wait forever while the kids were antsy and bored. It was a fortune and the pics were never that good. We met a photographer through my sister named Annie (of Sleeping Owl Photography) and now I can NEVER go back! She is amazing!

give me zero!

Emerson has decided that "high fives" are too limiting and wants to do ALL of the numbers. He will come up to me and say "Give me 7 Mama!" and hold out seven fingers...It is SO stinking cute!! And you can't fist bump- it called "give me zero" *Favorite autistic logic ever!!!!*

Who needs toys when you have boxy fun?

Right now Emerson has found every pull-up or diaper box we have in the house (one is pink so that means it was from way back when Meadow was in pull-ups. It HAD baby clothes in it *sigh*) So far he has five and is making them talk to each other in autistic jibber-jabber in various tones with words and phrases sprinkled in. It looks VERY fun but as soon as he noticed I was wearing a long sleaved shirt he stops what he is doing to make sure I take it off or his brain will melt...I think his boxes are going to the grocery store now. My life is different then most peoples. lol

You know your a parent of achild with autism when...

Here are some I've come up with-
1. When you're relieved it is food smeared on the floor and NOT poop.

2. When you hear a loud noise and imediatley want to put your hands over your neighbors ears.

3. When all of your toilet trees are in a basket on top of the refrigerator because they are SO tasty.

4. When you know exactly how much duct tape it takes to tape your childs shirt to his shorts to avoid the terrors mentioned in number one.
that was just what I could come up with off the bat...it felt kinda theraputic LOL

this may be hyperlexia

Sitting down with my son Emerson I started writing words and was amazed to find that he could read them! (I guess this may be hyperlexia) The amazing thing is that my son was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism at 27 months and still has significal developmental delays. age: 3 1/2

Beware of zombies!

"Ready, Set, GO!"

This is Emerson at 27 months, 2 days before being diagnosed with High Functioning Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder. Six month before this he was almost non-verbal. So for six months we worked on "Ready, Set, GO!" At this point he could say "set, GO!"
(We liked that shirt)
07/19/09