New pic of Chris! Ryan’s is coming…
He’s back at school! Thank God. He’s gotten on the bus 2 days straight now. Still some behavior problems – but we’re working on it.
More soon!
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Category: children
Chaos
email to my friend + some updates added…..
Things seem to be really coming to a head with Chris. He would not get on the bus yesterday. Nor would he get on the bus today.
Curly Hair!
2 years ago Ryan had this mop of curls. I’m so glad I have them on film as they’re gone!!
New collage of pix too — on my header.
Next step – I must start building my resource pages for deafness and autism. May have to take a hiatus from posting pics (though it’s so much fun!). I’ll post Halloween pics next but then have to be disciplined… want to release this finished as a resource site by Christmas!
If anyone is actually reading and knows of any resource sites to tell me of, please let me know.
Off to check on a rambunctious four-year-old….
dori
Pretend play!
Too cute! Pics here of Ryan putting the babies to bed (these are adopted from his sister Colleen) and then a picture of Chris enjoying his magazine. Playing with black and white and sepia too…
It’s always encouraging to us when Ryan does pretend play.
Welcome back to morning naps
Chris HAS been sleeping well at night for months, but was having more assertive (to put it mildly!) behavior during the day. After struggling for several weeks (months?) with his having trouble obeying limits and NOT pulling on our arms where he wants us to go, pulling us along the road, hallways, kitchen, wherever something is that he wants, or trying to leave places he didn’t want to be, we called an emergency appt. with the psychiatrist. He is a very caring doctor and listened to us and actually got to witness the “wanting to leave” behavior in his office, as did his staff in the waiting room (they called in an assistant for us to help as I had Ryan with me too).
The Fall Cold
The fall cold:
In my HEAD
In my CHEST
And COMING SOON – outside!
Ah well. OF course, this is normal. All of it. 3 days into the head cold, and eager to be done with it! My energy is down. Then, bracing for the outdoor cold coming tomorrow – possible snow! But me, I’m strange, I kind of like it. I remember when Colleen was Ryan’s age and she said “snow on the pumpkins!” I’d like to hear my Ryan say that.
But he’s coming along – he regularly says “pumpkin.” And yesterday he looked up at the full moon without my prompting and said “moon” (but pronounced it “moan” ha ha!). And it was the early morning chilly air, waiting for the bus for his preschool, and a bird flew across the sky in the dawn and he said “bird” and pointed.
Coming soon, the story of our Atwood Lake day on Sunday and how Chris found Nancy! (We were lost and separated from our friend gang….)
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Our one-day trip to Atwood Lake! Click for more pics —
The perfect post
All week I’ve been wanting to post in here, and I never have the time. I keep composing posts in my head when I’m away from the computer, but once I sit down I never get to it. Hopefully one day the two will synchronize…
My dream is for this to be a profound journal about our thoughts and experiences with autism and deafness, and also my life journal, and an interesting photo blog, and a sharing and teaching area where we can both learn from others and have them learn from us. I know this is not a goal that one can loftily achieve immediately – especially when one is typing with a 4 1/2 year old child on their back climbing on them in the chair —
yee haw..
Ahh he settled back down.
no – he’s not.
A few minutes later – we’ve looked at some Flickr pics again we took and now I’m going to try and write more.
Colleen 7th grade
Just got Colleen’s class pictures back today – think she looks gorgeous but she didn’t like them. I also posted last year’s picture – can’t believe how our little girl is growing up! Click on picture to see her old picture(s) too (I’ll try and post more than just last year’s soon)
Preschool open house
Ryan’s preschool open house – such neat things they have in his room! I didn’t take him – just stayed and talked to the teacher for a little while. They’re going to be working with him on a behavior plan…