My recent post on bathtime battles is up on the SPD Blogger Network if you want to check it out.
As for me, I've gone "dark" the last couple of weeks for my annual dusting off of the sewing machine to make costumes for the boys. There's always at least one of them who waits until the last minute to decide what they want to be. On the flip side, this year one decided to wear last year's costume (and it still fits!) so there were only two costumes to make.
Thanks to my recent work schedule, it...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Bathtime battles
Comments (3)Labels: baths, ideas and tips, sensory, SPD, water
Little Bitty has a love-hate relationship with bathtime. Usually somewhere in the realm of "strongly dislike."
Any mention of the dreaded bath and he's likely to screech "I not get WWWEEETTTT!!" and take off running. We'll be in for a wrestling match to get him into the tub and keep him there long enough to accomplish some semblance of cleaning. Somehow it seems like we end up soaked even more than him (I say "we" because he's getting bigger and when he goes ballistic dh and I have to tag team...
Friday, October 14, 2011
Mic-er-scoff Office Pow-point
Comments (3)Labels: artwork, creations
Cuddlebug and Bearhug have been using MS Powerpoint at school, so they were excited to discover that we have the same program at home.
Cuddlebug was especially eager to try out all of the "Microsoft Office features" on the computer :) and proceeded to put a shortcut to every. single. one. of them on his desktop. In Powerpoint, they made slideshows using clipart found in the clipart gallery that comes with the program.
And of course, Bitty follows his big brothers around watching them, and loves...
Saturday, October 8, 2011
National Sensory Awareness Month
Comments (2)Labels: autism, awareness, sensory, SPD, special needs
October is National Sensory Awareness Month!
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a neurological disorder in which the brain and the senses (all 8 of them!) don't work together as they should. Some examples of this include frequent sensory overload (when the brain is unable to filter out irrelevant sensory input), motor difficulties (when the brain isn't able to coordinate the...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Hiking trip
Comments (4)Labels: autism, family, leaving proof, pictures, sensory, SPD
We took the boys on a hike, which involved some fun trails, some pretty waterfalls, and a lot of stairs going up the mountain.
Bitty: "What iss hike-een?"
me: "Walking in the woods."
Bitty: "Are we walk-een in the woods?" (I can't figure out how to type the way he pronounces "walk" but it is so. darn. cute!
me: "Yep, we sure are."
These two practically ran up the mountain,...
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Conversations with Bitty
Comments (8)Labels: autism, communication, progress, quotes, speech, updates, words
Bitty asked me one evening as I took him upstairs to tuck him in for bed, "does me hab schoo tomowwow?"
I couldn't help but smile, his wording is too cute but it is also an indicator of just how far he's come with his speech and communication skills. You may notice that he didn't say, "do YOU hab schoo tomowwow?"
After a LOT of time and effort, he uses the pronoun "you" correctly...
RIP Flake :(
Comments (4)Labels: fish
Thursday night we found little Flake had passed away.
He was fine when I fed the fish that morning. By dinnertime, he was gone. :(
That's Flake at the bottom
I know it sounds silly, but there was something endearing about Flake. Dh and I joked that if ever a fish's name was a perfect fit, it was "Flake" lol. Bearhug named him after his "favorite food" but he was kind of...
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