GFCF diet

Well i've decided to put my son back on the gfcf diet. My son has issues with gas when he eats too much of either so i decided to cut out both and a lot of sugar. I am lucky that he seems to be ok with trying new foods so it really has been a good experience. His teacher even said he had a good day the first day he was on the diet. Today i let him have some really bread and after that i noticed a big difference in his behavior. From now on i am going to be strict. Any of you reading this have an advice on how to stick with it?

interesting article

I got this link from the Asperger's yahoo group..thought i would pass it along. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20657188/site/newsweek/page/0/

Wow it's been a couple of days since my last post and i didn't even realize it. So another question for those of you that are reading this and have a child with Asperger's. Does your Aspie ask you over and over what you are going to do today? My Aspie will ask first thing in the morning and then i will answer that he is going to school and then when we get to school he'll ask me what are we doing after school and then afterschool he'll ask me what we are doing on Saturday. I guess he just likes to know what's coming next.
Yesterday i took my 4 year old DD to the park and there was no one else there playing and i was thinking that it would be so much more fun for her if there were other children to play with. When i bring my Aspie to the park i usually end up following him around making sure that he doesn't envade someones space and am happy if there are no other children around because it is more relaxing for me..is that horrible? I hate comparing my 4 year old dd who doesn't have develpmental issues or learning issues just a typical 4 year old. She can do most things that my 8 year old Aspie has just learned to do i.e. pump on a swing,get dressed my herself including buttons,zippers etc. My 8 year old Aspie still has trouble with buttons and zippers and i am always telling him to get ready which takes an hour. Then i think about the great things that my aspie does. He is always ready for a hug,he doesn't get grumpy or emotional super fast like my dd.Anyway enough of my rant. Have a great day!!

9/11 six years later

Wow i can not believe that i has been 6 years since 9/11. I still remember being at home and my husband waking me up and telling me that the world trade center had been hit by a plane. I really didn't know what the world trade center was because we live in californina and i never really paid any attention to NYC. My husband is from NJ and he remembers when they were building the towers. My husband and my son,who was 2 at the time, turned on the tv and saw the 2nd plane hit the towers. My husband thought that it was a movie but quickly realized what it was. Yesterday my daughter and i were watching tv show called the falling man. It was about a photograph of a man that had jumped from the towers that day. They showed the towers on fire and then the first one crumbling and my 4 year old daughter asked me what that was,at first i wasn't sure if i should tell her the whole truth or not but then i figured that it is an important day in our country's history so i told her the short version and she was okay with what i said. We will never ever forget that day.

This weekend we will be attending the clebration for Autism Speaks Sonoma walk. We did the walk in Santa Rosa in April of this year and it was really wonderful to be around other families going through what we are.

School Days

This morning when i dropped my son off at school we headed to the playground since we had gotten there early. He headed to the playground where many of the children were already playing. I stood there watching him and i thought that i really wish he had just one special friend to meet up with every morning. I see these other children with friends that run up to them when they get to school. I remember loving that feeling when i saw my friends at school. I feel like my son deserves to feel that feeling. He is so special to me and i only wish that the other children around him could see that too. A little boy came up to him this morning and was talking to him and i thought" oh good someone wants to play with him!" nope the boy was just trying to tell him that he wasn't line leader anymore and that he needed to move his back pack. Aaarrggghh. I am thankful everyday for my son but i just wish for one day that he could be out on the playground with a friend laughing and playing.

School Days

So my son started school a little over 2 weeks ago and boy was i nerveous. He was transfered from the school that he had been at since Kindergarten. Although i was nerveous he seemed okay with it. At his new school he is mainstreamed all morning till 1130 and then he is in his special days class until the end of the day. While i like his new school i really have not made a connection with his new teacher. Last year his teacher was so wonderful and she is the reason that we even got him tested for Asperger's. Anyway,i am so proud of my son because he has adjusted really well to the new school and has even made new friends. Something new that he is doing is have very long goodbyes to us. He hugs us and then kisses us and then has us do a high five and then a "Secret" handshake. I don't know why this has happened but i think it is kind of cute and funny.
Sometimes i forget that my son has asperger's. I look at him and think that he is an "normal" child. Then we get into a socail situation and i realize that he is different but i think in a good way. I love my aspie so much and really wouldn't change anything about him because then he wouldn't be my son.