Baby Girl had her second GI scope today.  She was a lot grumpier this time around and the grumpiness lasted longer than it did before.  The doctor showed me the pictures and things look good, but she’ll send the biopsies off for evaluation so we […]

Remember last week when I posted that Whirlwind was complaining about going on the scout camp out?  And that I mentioned it was an important camp out for both boys? Whirlwind sabotaged his brother.  I just don’t know if it was intentional or not. One […]

My boys belong to a church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America troop.  It has been a good experience for them.  We have an upcoming camp out, and once again Whirlwind is declaring loudly he doesn’t want to go.  He does this just about every scout camp […]

Over the last few years we’ve spent many, many hours at our favorite Autism medical center. We’ve had evaluations, therapy sessions, meetings with licensed clinical social workers and physicians of all sorts.  In the last year we began to participate in a study for siblings […]

We had a follow up appointment with the pediatric gastroenterologist.  We are going to continue to treat baby girl for acid reflux and then we will rescope her in August.  When we weighed her I was extremely happy to find out Baby Girl has finally […]

  This post used to be titled, “Why I Won’t Be Taking My Autism Spectrum Children Back to Universal Islands of Adventure” I generally try to be pretty positive, and I realized my post and title were not at all positive.  So I’m rewriting this […]

When Baby Girl was tiny, she had a difficult time sleeping unless she was being held. She also spit up a ton. Our pediatrician suggested putting her on an acid reflux medicine to help her and it made a world of difference.  She could sleep, […]

Did you ever watch GI Joe cartoons as a kid?  I’m a child of the 80’s and I loved to watch GI Joe every afternoon.  Every cartoon would end with some type of lesson or moral message and the phrase, “And knowing is half the […]

Darn it.  I really had hoped we had turned a corner on this when she had gained a pound in two weeks time.  One week and a half later and she is back down.  Our primary care provider wants us to go ahead with the […]

Until a little over a year ago, I had never had to get stitches for any of my kids–even though I have some daredevils with ADHD.  Then, in December 2011, Lawboy thought it would be funny to scare Acroboy.  He did and Acroboy jumped and […]