Week 29

We had another good week with Ryan.  His language is improving greatly and he is now talking in full sentences most of the time.  We had his parent - teacher conference with his teacher Ms. Sue and it was a positive report.  He still is saying no sometimes to his teachers (although we have high school student that are not autistic telling teachers no!) and his fine motor skills are still below where they should be at his age. 

We did have a set back this week.  We tried re-introducing pizza and he loved it!  Unfortunately we then received two bad reports from school that he was not participating in circle time.  Circle time before this diet was a complete disaster and what they were describing (getting up, not wanting to participate, and playing with something else) were exactly the behaviors that gave us the push to visit the pediatric neurologist last spring.

Injections are still going great and we finally have a video of the procedure.    He has come such a long way in such a short amount of time with these injections. We wish we had a video of one of the injections six weeks ago to show the huge difference. 

We also had another birthday party this weekend.  It was at the Build-A-Bear in the Jefferson Valley Mall for a classmate of Ryan's.  He did such a great job at the place.  He followed directions, waited his turn on line, played duck-duck-goose and Simon Says with the other children, and had a great time.  We even had cake in the food court and we brought one of his cupcakes and he was fine with that as an option.  Although, he did walk into the food court and announced that he smelled French Fries then told me how much he loves fries!  One of the great things about this party was that he was able to build a bear.  The only ironic part is that the girl did not understand that Ryan wanted to name the bear Sally and she thought he said Shary!  On the certificate it now states that the bears name is Shary.  So below is a picture with a brown bear in a baseball outfit called Shary, a new addition to the sleep time collection.  Each one has a spot and each one has to be in the bed before we can turn out the lights.

 Over all a good week and hopefully we continue this this upward swing.  We will keep you updated with the Circle Time report next week.

PC