Re recovery joy and wishes for the new year from our home.....

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That was an awesome story...........................

A lot of funny incidents too!

Congrats to you and your family and 'way to go, Levi " !

Judy

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>I have some funny stuff to share today for some commic relief. my previous

>ASD son has been really " getting things " beter this week.

>

> today we had two funny things happen, daddy came home with some tip money

> and our son found it and was fanning it out in his hand say wow, I have

> lots of money, look mom I'm filthy rich!!

>

> last night my 6 year old mentioned above got a phone call from a girl at

> school his face just lite up, he did need some help to keep the

> conversation going like, tell her what movie you are watching! ask her

> what she got for christmas? did her grandparents come ect. today he was

> relaying the conversation to my hubby, it sounded like this

>

> (levi) hayley called me last night

> (dad)she did hum

> yup

> what did you talk about

> (blank) levi said nothing

> (dad) what did SHE get for christmas?

> (levi) a dolly and pajama's, oh and she like rudolf the red nose reigndeer

> movie too!

>

> he had this goofy look on his face, mom said you like haley hum!

> (levi) yup, she's my girlfriend!

> (mom) you mean she is a girl that is a friend or a crush

> (levi) just looks puzzeled

> (mom) a crush is where you really like someone and you want to be around

> them all the time

> (levi) and I want to kiss her, he laughs

> DAD AND MOM BUST OUT LAUGHING- HE WANTS TO KISS SOMEONE......AND

> UNDERSTANDS CRUSH WITH OUT A FULL EXPLINATION. it was a beuatiful moment,

> but made me realize he is getting older all at the same time.......yicks,

> girls already at 6!!

> (mom) what about dmaira (we were told just last week THIS was his

> girlfriend by his teacher at his IEP meeting)

> (levi) yeah I wanna kiss her two

> dad and mom again laughing

> (mom) levi TWO girl you have crush on?

> and emma mom I like her too!!!

> he finishes by jumping on the trampoline giggeling to himself

>

>

> yesterday I came home and levi and dad were wresteling, and levi breaks

> out to tell me that while I was gone daddy broke the rules! I asked what

> he meant and he said " daddy made bad choices he broke the rules, he needs

> to go into time out and have a spanking mom.....then he looks a dad and

> says, that's it dad go now!! time out right there for 2 min. trying SOO

> hard not to laugh I asked WHAT rule he broke! levi said MINE!! pointing

> to himself, we again started to laugh and asked what levi's rules were,

> so he starts listing off, tickle and wrestel, go down stairs ect giving me

> a play scheudual, apparently dad didn't listen to levi's list of things to

> do and THAT was what he was trying to tell me, then later he again said

> dad made bad choices. when I asked how, he said he ate bad choice while

> you were gone.....I asked like what. he said pizza, bread, and continued

> to list non diet foods, (WHICH dad is suppose to be working on doing for

> himself) son told on him

>

>

> the sweet thing to share was we got a big snow storm over break and our

> son went out and was helping shovel and we live in a 8 appartment complex

> town house style with stare walk ways. my son went from house to house

> clearing them with the new kids shovel mom had gotten him. one of the

> guys seeing this thought it would be sweet to give him 3 dollars, he comes

> in proud as a peacock, look mom I had my first job I have money!!! he

> called and told his grandma ect....3 days later we are walking at walmart

> and on our way out there is a salvation army man ringing the bell, he

> stops hearing and says look mom a bucket, I said yeah levi that is where

> people can give money to help poor kids who need help or can't get

> present, he looks at me, puts out his hand and said mom I need one of my

> dollars.....having it in my purse with tears I handed him the dollar

> knowing what he was going to do with it, he walked over so proud and

> placed his dollar in can and told the guy merry christmas eve......he

> looked at me,we both smiled.....I put my precious little boy in the car

> realizing how far he has come from this last year. las year mom pregant

> and bed ridden the whole house having strep levi in PANDAS melt down

> flinging feses on the celing and making pancake with it into the carpet

> ect...drawing on the wall with it ect. no to not have the label autism

> and to have developed into a caring contributing american boy at only age

> 6 with a crush on a girl. I am so proud of him. this is the first year

> he has been able to verbalize what he wants for christmas and has 'gotten "

> Christmas. he asked to go see santa which floored us so we did, he was so

> excited has his picture taken with him, and told him he wanted a treck

> attack which we couldn't figure out what it was, but we searched high and

> low and figured it out. he said it was fast and hit walls and flipped

> backwards......(he saw it on a commercial after the dora mermaid movie)

> we found it and he keep going oh my gosh oh my gosh it's my favoriate toy

> EVER,,,,,,,

>

> leading to yesterday. we had a fix it man come to fix our tub, levi was

> facinated (told us at one point that he wanted to be one) he pulls his

> sister into the hall and says look jazzy this is the fixed man, (sister

> could care less and leaves, he is still staring) I said levi this is john,

> he is fixing the tub. OHHHH said levi, john gets done, (jasmine shows him

> what she got for christmas) levi gabs his hand, Hey fix it guy come see my

> gift, I got a treck attack and it's awesome......the fix it man playing

> along so well said ok....and follows. he points to it, see it's a treack

> attack and it does flips and goes room room (waving his hand from one side

> of the room to another) OHH says john, levi grabs his attantion again,

> it's my favoriate toy ever.....(mom feeling so proud that we got it for

> him) john goes to leave, levi leans on the door, hey man, thanks for

> fixing the tub john, we appreciate it! happy new years and merry

> christmas. it was soooo funny

>

> hope this makes you laugh and smile. never NEVER give up.......this is

> going to be a great year for many of you, and you don't even know it yet!!

> praying for the best for you all in 2008

>

> Recovering from Autism is a marathon

> NOT a sprint, but FULLY possible!

> Read more about it on my Blogs at

> http://www.myspace.com/christelking

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