Emmett has sorta pulled out of his funk and even stepped outside of his Spiderman costume.  Right now he's lost in Marble World. Marble World is a construction set made of tracks and tubes. When built it allows marbles to race through it. This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by @Tmobile. Please forgive any typos. I know how to spell but auto-correct hates me.  ;-) For more ways to help the Lost and Tired family, please visit Help the Lost and Tired Family.

For whatever reason, Emmett decided that he was going to dress up as Spiderman today. Everywhere we went today, he was Spiderman.....and I mean everywhere. I'm of the opinion that I was lucky to be in the presence of Spiderman today.  Emmett was so cute and so happy being Spiderman today.  Who was I to take that away from him.  He wasn't hurting anyone, unless you were a bad guy at which point he trap you with his webshooters. Other than that, he wasn't hurting anyone.  :-) I look at it like this. Can it be weird walking into a store while Emmett was in his costume? Sure.  Do people stare at me like I'm crazy for letting him out of the house like that? Of course they did. However,…

I just finished up day 2 of the Thirty Day Water Challenge.  Today I drank about 64 oz of the clear stuff and stayed away from anything else.  The whole point is to drink only water for 30 days. So far so good.   This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by @Tmobile. Please forgive any typos. I know how to spell but auto-correct hates me.  ;-) For more ways to help the Lost and Tired family, please visit Help the Lost and Tired Family.

It's been awhile since I have updated you all on how Gavin is doing. I don't talk very often about him right now because I have mixed feelings about this whole thing.  When you find yourself faced with having to choose between one of your kids and the rest of your family, the line between right and wrong becomes so blurred that it essentially disappears. The fact that Gavin is my adopted son doesn't make these decisions any easier, I assure you.  Gavin's been living with his Grandparents for about 4 months now.  For all intents and purposes, he doing really well.  Recently, even his health seems to have settled down, at least to my knowledge.  I hate saying,  at least to my knowledge.  I feel like I should know…

Overstimulation? What the heck is that? Tonight marks the end of a very long 4 day weekend.  This weekend was filled with lots of play and excitement for the boys.  On Saturday, the boys played all day with their cousins from Colorado.  They had so much fun.  I wish their cousins lived closer so that they could play more often.  Today, the boys spent time with my parents.  They had tons of fun and came home exhausted and ready to eat dinner.  All of this was great but it did unfortunately, lead to both boys but especially Emmett, being completely overstimulated. Overstimulation historically leads to meltdowns and out evening was full of them. For those of you new to the Autism game, let me try to explain what overstimulation is…