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I have so much good news to talk about, I can hardly wait to tell you all. Let me first begin with, oh my gosh, did you see the Emmy's? If you have not seen the HBO movie Temple Grandin, please watch. The move took home 7 wins last night, 7!!!!! It's a move about the of Temple Grandin, she is extraordinary! I don't think I need to explain positive outcome this will have on the world of autism, but thank you Temple, for allowign HBO to telly our story. Thank you HBO for casting Claire Daines, oh my gosh was she amazing, and thank you to everyone who saw how amazing this film was and how worth it was for these awards. YEAH TEMPLE! Please watch the movie!!!
My other great news, we had an AMAZING family vacation. Whoppeeee. It's our first of hopefully many to come! I don't have a lot of time to write so I'll just say that the boys were great. THey both went on a roller coaster (big one), we visited water parks, beaches, museums, etc. The difference between Tyler this year and last year is unbelievable in terms of his coping skills as well as his tolerance for new situations, surroundings, people, and chaos. i cried when we got off the rollercoaster, in somewhat disbelief but mostly thankful for having a normal family moment. There were days that I never thought we'd have those moments. There were days when Tyler was put to the front and everything else pushed to the back burner, including Ben, Steve, my marriage, pets, etc. I just kept hoping and wishing that the pay off one day woudl be worth while and oh my was it. It all was worthwhile. I'm going to remember that vacation the next time we go through a hard patch and question my decision making, etc. Thank you grandma and grandpa Taylor for letting us stay at Sandy Pines... really helped us be able to get otu and take the boys places.
Ben started a new preschool today, yeah! This is going to save us a lot of money each month (long story) and it's also more local to Tyler's school which means our schedule isn't as crazy. Plus the school is fantastic and I'm so happy for him. I often felt I just made decisions for Ben that worked within Tyler's schedule but not necessarily whats best for Ben. I finally feel I have Ben in the best place he can be and it also works well for all of us.
There will be some other big changes comingin our life soon as well. I mentioned a while back we are trying to simplify our life and all of those plans are in the works.
Oooh quick update on Biomed.. Still my goal to find a new pediatrician, ahven'e done that yet but Ty has a cold right now and I"m needing to find time to get them to a new doctor. We tried once again to stop B12 shots without success, TYelr still needs those shots. THe problem now is he knows they are coming and it's really tough to give htem to him and ptus a lot of stress on Steve. We've been working together to trick TYler so he isn't aware they are coming. Teh suckers we tried didn't seem to have the same effect on him. We also have widdled down his supplements nad so far haven't seen any major changes. Right now TY is on spectrum complete, fish oil, digestive enzymes, pycogrin (SP?) and TMG. WE need to place a new order and I believe both boys need a calcium supplement and Ben needs iron for sure (carb junkie!) so I'm going to just try to keep Ty on that spectrum complete, enzymes(these two are the most expensive of course), and TMG and then B12 shots. When they are on antibiotics or sick I'll beef up on the vitamin C and Probiotics. But this is our plan moving forward into fall and winter, we'll see how it goes. He's doing great though.
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