Month: June 2009

SILAS!! He’s reading me books.  Full kids books.  Not early reader books but book books.  This kid is just unreal. I noticed that he could do more than just read words that I’ve taught him because the other day we were going through this new puzzle where you match the animal sounds to the animal… Continue reading Smarty Pants Award of the Year Goes to….

Tomorrow tomorrow I’ll love ya tomorrowwww it’s only a daaaay awwaaaaayyy. Alesha comes tomorrow for her first session with Silas.  It’s mostly a get-to-know-you sorta deal with him, they’re just going to play.  Then the following week she’ll begin at her regular times.  Salvation has arrived. woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot Silas continue to just…get better.  He’s becoming more… Continue reading Therapy Starts TOMORROW!!

Ooooooo there’s cold air running through my house.  I love how a week of super hot weather makes me crave the clouds again.  I’m so stinking tired right now.  Bluah. Listening to Coldplay on the radio, watering my law, pondering cleaning up, feeling awful dry mouth from starting antidepressants.  Kinda wanna gag too. Lawn is… Continue reading Happy Friday

Sooooooooooooooooo I got a new idea for a blog and I kinda just went for it.  K no I procrastinated on it forever but then I went for it.  🙂  Annnnyway, it’s called Discovering Happy and I’m blogging about my journey I’m on to find out how to be happy and stay that way. Through… Continue reading Discovering Happy

Last night we interviewed to LOVELY WONDERFUL people that I’m already in love with and we’re hiring them both to be Silas’ behavior interventionists.  I cannot believe how much we fit with this company, I just cannot believe it.  It’s like FINALLY something is easy.  Something works, something fits. I’m in love with these two… Continue reading BI’s are HIRED

Looking around online I found that for the average family, autism costs them 40 000 to 80 000 American dollars.  My government gives us $20 000 a year that only pays for 1/4 of the recommended amount of ABA therapy.  Good thing we don’t believe in sticking a kid in 40 hours a week of… Continue reading The Price of Autism

Ikey’s bday party was a success!!  I love the fact that we DIDN’T have it at our house so we DIDN’T have to clean up before and after.  Wooooot. We went to this tiny, round, chlorinated man-made lake thingy with awful gravel all around it.  It used to have sand.  I’m pretty sure all our… Continue reading Party Party Party Party