The Back Story of this Autism Hat Tutorial For a while now I’ve been contemplating making something that would possibly make my life a little easier.  I’ve had enough meltdowns on outings with my ASD kids to know I wanted to do something to indicate […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]