Week 84

Thanksgiving!  For most people it is getting on the cozy pants and eating as much as possible.  For Ryan it is a good time but it does take planning to be sure that we have food that he can eat.  Since he has been on the diet for almost 2 years, he does not get too upset that he has to eat different things. However, we have made great strides in finding different foods that he can eat.  We found rolls, that taste like rolls, making sure that there is a separate baked potato, and cupcakes for dessert.  He did cheat a little but it was only for a spoonful of mashed potatoes.  He had a great time with his cousins and below is a picture of the kids excited to open a gift from Dawn and find their own personalized notebook.

 


Stacy's and Arnold's Wedding.

This weekend we also attended a wedding.  We were a little nervous about how Ryan was going be since he was not in the wedding and Julia was the flower girl.  However, he did great and was thrilled that he was able to ride in the limo with his sister and the bridal party from the church to the reception.  Below are a few pictures of the day.

Family picture outside the Church

Drawing at the reception  

Getting Ready for Christmas!   

Decorating the Barbie Tree

Setting up the Train!

As a side note, Ryan has been acting more and more independent over these past few months wanting to do things on his own.  So today we were upstairs and Ryan wanted to play in the living room.  The train that is in the picture above comes with all of the characters from the "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" Holiday special.  When we came down later Dawn noticed that Ryan had white all over his hands.  When Dawn pressed him as to what happened and why he had white all over his hands, Ryan did not answer.  So Dawn went to the office and noticed that the whiteout bottle was opened.  Dawn kept asking Ryan what happened and finally Ryan went to one of the cabinets and took out one of the plastic train characters.  He broke the hand off and tried to fix it with what he thought was glue!  He actually did a god job but we have to teach him to do a little better job on cleaning up the evidence! We all had a good chuckle!

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