Check out today's picture of the day. :-)

Our next step is to get him to his rheumatologist. It's possible that we could be looking at Fibromyalgia, as it's not unheard of in children and certainly more common than just about anything else he's already got going on

I've spent the last few days revitalizing my site and making it more esthetically pleasing and user friendly. Several changes have taken place, both on the back end and front end.

Today's been one of missing sleep. Lizze and I are really, really tired and boys are really, really full of energy. This is not a good match right now but we are making it work..

It matters not, whether the excitement be of a positive or negative nature. Kids with mental health issues like Gavin, can and often will, decompensate under these circumstances. We've seen it happen countless times with Gavin and to be honest, with his health issues so significant, we sometimes forget the fine line he walks emotionally.

We've been working with Gavin on noticing things on his body that require maintenence and then addressing it, without having to be asked or reminded. An example of this would be trimming his finger nails.

I don't know about your Autism household but I swear to God that we have lost the ability to use our inside voices. It leaves me wondering, where have all the inside voices gone?