11/11/08 ugh...winter

I knew I was forgetting some exciting things in the last blog. The first is that Tyler is beginning to use his fork all on his own. We used to stab the food for him and hand it to him or sit it down for him to grab, now he's grabbing the fork on his own and attempting to spear his own food. He also is grabbing finger food off his plate to eat, there was a time he would avoid at all costs, touching any of his food. We can finally put a dish of something or a bag of something in his hands or lap whiel in the car and he will eat out of it. Used to be we'd have to reach back in teh car and tab his leg to get his attention and hand him a piece at a time. We are super super excited about these new schools. Once Tyler is eating well on his own, we can give Ben more attention during dinner as Ben occasionally acts out seeing how much attention Tyler gets.

So this morning was supposed to be the start of a great day. Holiday for me so Ben was going to daycare and Tler had preschool. I was gonna get in a long run, clean the house, finish up laundry and have a few minutes of peace today before heading off to the parent eductation class tonight for the study. I dropped Ben off at daycare and then once we pulled into the preschool parking lot Tyler started crying. I figured he just was acting like he usually does with me and he didn't want me to leave. So we went in and changed his diaper in the bathroom (still tears), we caught the teacher on the way out so she helped us to class, I said goodbye and left him crying know that they always say he's fine as soon as I'm gone. I had just gotten back home and the teacher called saying that Tyler had been crying a lot so they took his temp and it was over 101. Okie dokie.. on my way back to get him. Dad picked him up and I met them to do the exchange. I gave him some motrin and juice and we headed back home. About 3 mintues later Tyler started gagging and then vomited. So we pulled into someones driveway, got him cleaned up and headed for home. Tyler tends to have a weak stomach when he has a fever so I gave himt ylenol when we got home and waited a bit on any fluids. The dog seems to have a keen sense when the kids are sick and joins in the fun (always on mom duty!!!) he vomited all over the carpet, lovely. Tyler seems run down a bit and a bit more cuddly than normal but overall doing ok and fever is around 100 and he's with dad now. Got a call from daycare (forgot to tell her we whouldn't be bringing Tyler by after school... oooppsss) and found out Ben is also not feeling well but no fever yet.

Let the winter season begin.... I despise winter as its aways one illness after another at our house and we are always in survival mode rather than progressing. We had big plans this weekend.. heard of a cool portrait studio that works well with kids with autism and since we've only had the kids pictures taken once and itw as horrible, we were gonna try to get that done this weekend (in time for the holidays). I also wanted to take Ben to see Madagascar 2 cause he loves that book and then since Grandma is gonna be here we were gonna take the boys to java jungle so she could watch them play, it's so fun there. Hopefully everyone is feeling better by the weekend. Tyler has his monthly assessment for the study on Friday and a well visit at the peditricans which he needed for his 30day placement at school which is next week so like always, thi sisn't the best week to get sick. We also had a scheduled parent video today which luckily I had already rescheduled to next week. We are suppsoed to meet with the DAN doctor on Monday but in order to do that we have to start the antifungal medication which we can't do with Tyler being sick. So I'm not sure how that's all gonna work, I'll leave that one up to dad since he handles those appts.

Anyway, hopefully this is just a minor bug and we can' t get back to moving forward with school, doctors, supplements, etc. can't believe it's almost mid-November!

Love to all