Aden...

On October 1st, Aden had his 3 year well baby visit with DR Coit. After a long chat and some observations, he referred us to the Autism Intervention Center at San Diego Children's Hospital. He will be evaluated specifically for Asperger's Syndrome, which is a milder form of autism. DR Coit felt this was necessary because Aden shows a few key symptoms of autism, but not all of them. He lines up his toys, and copies everything you say. Everything. It's called "scripting", the medical terms is echolalia. He is having trouble sustaining conversations with people, even though he has an extensive vocabulary. He also cannot use pronouns (which is very cute), and is often times unsympathetic to other peoples feelings or emotions.

Scott and I have been absorbing information like mad over these last 2 weeks. We have studied all of the biomedical interventions you can imagine, and have slowly started making changes in his diet, and supplementing him above and beyond a multivitamin. He's also about to start taking digestive enzymes and probiotics (autistic kids have horrible trouble with digestion and an overload of yeast in their gut). We are cleaning him out, so to speak. His shampoo, body wash, lotion, toothpaste...everything has been thrown away and replaced with all natural and/or organic products, free of additives. I could go on and on about this, and the importance of environmental toxin around your children...I would encourage everyone reading this to take a good, hard look at what you are putting into your kids!

Our appointment isn't until December 11th (they are so full...autism is an EPIDEMIC!), Please pray for Scott and I, for peace as we wait. We've already seem small improvement in Aden's conversational skills...he's doing well with his Omega 3! We love him more and

more everyday...now we see how truly amazing our little Buddy is, and look forward to helping him learn how to talk to us, in his own words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!