My kids are HUGE Harry Potter fans.  When we went to Universal IOA, we also bit the bullet and ate at the Three Broomsticks. The atmosphere there is pretty good, but the food is pricey (it cost us over $100 to eat there) We […]

  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, […]

Right as school is ending I received a letter from the speech therapist at the elementary school.  It stated that Acroboy has met all of his speech goals and services would be ending. I’m not sure how to feel about this. I’m pleased that he […]

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 […]

We saw the allergist today and she has gained a pound in just two weeks!  The pediatric allergist wants us to continue to eliminate milk from her diet.  We are to reintroduce milk products at 18 months. I know we have had a lot of […]

Failure to thrive. It feels like a punch in the guts.  What is going on with my baby girl?  I feed her a lot–just as much as I’ve ever fed her older siblings, yet this little girl cannot seem to put on more than a […]

We had a 504 meeting for Acroboy.  Well, I thought it was going to be a 504 meeting for Acroboy. Acroboy’s teacher has been giving him some accommodations to help him in class.  He gets extra reminders, visual cues, he sits close to her on […]

I guess “verdict” isn’t quite the right word, but I couldn’t think of anything catchier. So we got the test results back.  Baby Girl is allergic to milk. I knew my other children were senstive to milk–it gave them all diahrhea until they were about […]