Magic Marker Monday: A splash of color

Little Bitty brought these paintings home from school. My favorite is the first one - which was titled "Flowers." :)For more Magic Marker Monday, visit 5 Minutes for Special Needs.If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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Four-giveness

A few weeks ago (the week that Bitty did great in church), his class learned about forgiveness. At the end of the lesson, his teacher had each of the children practice saying the word to help them remember what they had learned about.She broke it down since it's kind of a big word:"For-""-giveness"The next week, I wondered if he still remembered so I asked him what he learned...

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I tried, I really did...

Have you ever made a mistake, a miscalculation that you didn't realize until it was too late? It's a little embarrassing to admit it, but this happened to me last week at the fishing event. Dh and I split up, with him taking Bitty to rest and wind down for a bit in the shade while I took Bearhug to fish. Cuddlebug was nearby in the bouncy house.As Bearhug and I approached the...

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Fishing Fun Day

Each year a local organization hosts a fishing day for children with autism and their families. We always have a lot of fun (and last year Cuddlebug even caught his first fish!). This year they also had a pony ride, which Cuddlebug LOVED :). Here are some pictures:Bitty fishingBearhug found a feather :)Bearhug fishingCuddlebug on the ponyCuddlebug at the end of his pony rideBearhug...

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"Molly was sad"

I recently found myself sitting with Bitty next to a little baby, who was sitting on his grandmother’s lap. Bitty surprised me by taking a mild interest in the baby – typically he doesn’t show much (if any) interest in other children (other than his brothers). At one point, the baby started to fuss a little. Bitty took notice, and looked back and forth from the baby, to his...

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Scouts tonight

Cuddlebug and Bearhug attended their first Cub Scout meeting tonight, and it went pretty well :). Cuddlebug was less-than-enthused yesterday when we brought it up, but today he was excited to go. He was really into it and even volunteered to participate in the flag ceremony (carrying the US flag) :).On the flip side, Bearhug was excited yesterday but a little antsy about the...

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Full of surprises!

So Sunday we had a rough day at church. Without going into all the gory details, it involved one major meltdown, a couple of smaller ones, a lot of over-stimulation, and a certain little boy almost getting stepped on a couple of times while rolling on the floor.We also learned that while the seat-belt clip does in fact keep Bitty from unhooking his seat belt while driving, it...

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Magic Marker Monday: Summer

Bearhug brought this home from school last week, just wanted to share because I love the things he thinks of, and that he is not shy about his talents :).(Click to enlarge)For more Magic Marker Monday, visit 5 Minutes for Special Needs.If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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Random notes from the week

Bitty is learning to spell! And more than just Thomas character names ;). He's figured out that letters make up words, and he's become very interested in learning the letters for his favorite words. Here's a few:O-R-E-O (that one took all of 1 minute to learn, he was motivated!)N-E-S-Q-U-I-K (on the chocolate milk container)T-A-R (one of his trains is a tar car, I found that...

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SOOC Saturday: Crashed

Friday night we had a huge thunderstorm with lots of thunder, lightning, and pounding rain. Bearhug and Cuddlebug were upstairs playing their Pokemon games, but came downstairs because all the commotion outside scared them. Bitty was already asleep on the couch. Cuddlebug asked me for a blanket and the next thing I knew, he was out. And it wasn't long after that, I noticed...

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Friday Photo Flashback

I found a great new blog not too long ago - More Than Words, and noticed on a recent visit that she hosts Friday Photo Flashback every Friday. How fun! So I found an old picture to play along this week :)."Why Twin Toddlers and External Water Dispensers Don't Mix"Not sure how well you can tell in the picture, but they were both completely dripping wet and their clothes were SOAKED!!...

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Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad!

Today is my parents' wedding anniversary, so I thought I'd share a video that I made for them last year (but didn't post at the time so it's new here). The music is "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond, their "song" going back to when they were dating :).To Mom & Dad - I love ya'll and wish you many, many more happy anniversaries!If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email...

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Bitty and me, and some updates

Bitty loves to be carried (in fact, he insists on it by jumping in front of me with his arms up so I can't walk). He's getting so big, but I can still carry him for a little while at least so I prompt him to ask, "up pweez" and then I carry him until my back needs a break.He reminds me of Cuddlebug when he was younger (hence the nickname...), he was a cuddly little koala bear...

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HE DID IT!!!!! (Autism at church, part 3)

Sometimes progress comes in baby steps, sometimes it comes with as many steps backward as forward, sometimes it pauses for a long plateau. And every now and then... ...progress comes in giant leaps! Or, maybe it would be more accurate to say a culmination of baby steps that come together all of a sudden in a way that feels like a giant leap! But however you word it, we had...

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Autism at church part 2: Bitty wears. me. out.

You may recall I posted recently about some of the struggles we've had at church over the years. Just as things started to "click" for Cuddlebug and Bearhug at church, Little Bitty started to really struggle. At the time, he was still attending the nursery, for children 18 mos to 3. More often than not, he went into meltdown mode just at the sight of his classroom door, and...

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SOOC Saturday: Textures

A couple of weeks ago, I took the boys to a local park with a fountain to splash in. Cuddlebug and Bearhug jumped right in, but Little Bitty wasn't so sure he wanted to join them. Bearhug *really* wanted him to, and tried to talk him into it, but Bitty wasn't having it.Instead, he plopped himself down in the sand / gravel next to the sidewalk and started digging his hands in...

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SEW & WW: Back to school

Well, I didn't manage to get pictures of the boys before leaving the house on the first day of school, but I took my camera and got some pictures while we waited in the carpool line and just after the boys got out of the car.As you can see, Bearhug didn't feel like going along with the wear-something-nice-on-the-first-day gameplan (which we encouraged but weren't going to force...

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Now on Alltop!

Everyday Adventures is now featured on the Autism page at Alltop:http://autism.alltop.com(scroll down to the bottom to find us) :)Alltop is an "online magazine rack" with collections of sites and blogs on topic-specific pages. They have pages for just about any topic you could think of.Too bad they don't make a badge that says, "How coo' mie?" lol :)If you enjoyed this post, get...

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Magic Marker Monday: Spike-a-saurus

Bearhug and Cuddlebug were invited to a birthday party on Saturday for a friend from school (whose mom also happens to be one of Bitty's former therapists - small world!). It was an art party where everyone got to paint their own dinosaur. I loved how the instructor asked everyone what colors dinosaurs are, and of course the kids (being much smarter than I am) answered correctly...

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