Park Day

Just a lovely Sunday at the park for my sister Bella's birthday. Aden played, and Ava ate, the entire time! Aden took this first picture of Daddy with my big ol' camera all by himself! I think it's frame worthy :)

The Big Bill

All of Aden's testing at Rady's Children's Hospital came to a grand total of $1,736.

After insurance, we only have to pay $16.83.

God is GOOD!

Strides!

Hi all...we're all still here and ready to blog again :)

December flew by (as always). Ava turned two on December 27th. She is talking so much! I can't think of a single word that she can't say. She's so feisty too. She continues to be the most beautiful little girl I have EVER seen :)

Aden is in preschool now, on Thursdays and Friday, from 8:45-12:00. He loves it! He has a shadow with him while he's there, and that's been great. Miss Emily and Miss Renee are his own personal helpers that love on him and help him to understand the social situations that he's in. He's also at speech therapy 2 times a week. Right now we're working on answering "wh" questions. Who, what, where, when and why. It's not as easy as it looks for a 3 year old! We're working on potty training....it usually takes autistic children much longer to potty train because they are so stuck in their routines. We're not too worried about it, he'll get it in his own time.

I recently spoke at Mom2Mom about Aden's Dx and the journey that's it has taken us on over these last 5 months. We are in such a good place now. I feel such a peace about it all. It took a long time for me to "let go and let God", but now that I have, it's amazing! Aden is engaging us so much lately, inviting us into his world instead of us pushing our way in. He says, "Mommy look at this!" "Daddy watch me!" "Mommy let's go outside!" "Daddy let's build!". He's always asking us if we "wanna play?!" and we are all to happy to oblige. It's so wonderful to have my boy look at me and ask me to be with him! I didn't realize how much of our relationship was me loving on him and making the effort. He is surprising us all.