Oh my goodness, it's been a while!

Life gets in the way at the best of times so you can imagine what it's like with us. I can't believe I haven't posted to this Autism blog since September! So much has gone on, where to begin....

Logan adjusted beautifully to the new class and teacher. He advanced leaps and bounds in speech and behavior that I never had to worry about him. Alas, it didn't last. His teacher had to retire unexpectedly two months ago due to health reasons and no interim teacher could be found. They put up with substitutes for a month before we finally had to go to the principal to find out what the heck was going on in the class.

No qualified ASD teacher is available for the rest of the year so they settled (finally!!) on one subsitute. Now, you would think that I'd be happy with that and I guess I am to a certain degree. The problem is that Logan doesn't seem to really care for this person. Ms. Nickie has had to be absent quite a bit herself because her children have been ill so it's been a double whammy for the little guy. It has gotten so bad that a few days he has absolutely REFUSED to go to school. He won't allow me to change his diaper and get him dressed in time to catch the bus and the boy LOVES the bus. I thought perhaps he'd let me drop him at school but that didn't work either time. We're taking it one day at a time anymore.

It doesn't help that he's been sick. The Friday before Spring Break he came down with strep throat. We had no idea because he couldn't communicate what was bothering him until Easter Sunday. He was on antibiotics that following week which I kick myself for because this past week he dealt with ear infections in both ears due to the meds. He missed all but one day this past week and that was fun. I took him to the doctor but they wanted to put him on a stronger antibiotic. I talked to the doctor about using Grapefruit Seed Extract instead of the antibiotics and he said he'd give me two days to get the temp down/gone before he would have antibiotics started. We've been following a regular schedule of putting the GSE in water and then putting a drop in each ear. We also have added one drop of it to his "milk" morning and night and he's now 100% better! (His little sister was starting to get it so we started to follow the same schedule with her and she's almost back to normal) Now, if they can just start sleeping through the night. Wait, make that got to sleep earlier and sleep through the night again. LOL

He was just playing with Ryan and it was wonderful to watch. They were chasing each other back and forth through the living room. Logan was sitting on the couch when Ryan went up to him. Logan reached out and gently put his arms around Ryan and then leaned in and kissed his nose! I tell ya' it brought tears to my eyes!! It's something that will I will always remember and cherish. Those moments are too few and far between so I have to stock them up and enjoy them when I can!