Our baby boy celebrated his first birthday last week! What an occasion for celebration! I hate to make this about me, but the fact that I survived this last year is something worth noting:). He absolutely loved his cupcake and cried when it was all gone, poor baby:). He is blossoming into a fun, curious, social little toddler. In the last few weeks, we have seen a big increase in his babbling, pointing, showing us things. . . he has even started bringing us books! We remember Lynsey doing these kinds of things, but Adam never really did. I hate to analyze everything Nathan does, but naturally we are hyper-aware of all the things he should be doing to see if he might be falling into the category of possibly having Autism as well. At this point, we feel like he is typically developing, but only time will tell for sure. He's crying less and just a lot more fun these days, which is so nice. He was pretty high maintenance for a while there! I did see one point of one of his molars poked through the other day. Yes - 1/16th of his molars down, 15/16ths to go! Okay a bit depressing when I put it that way. But it's a start! I have also been working on helping him go down stairs, and today, he went down several stairs on his own! Soon I won't have to have a heart attack every time he makes a move towards the stairwell:).
Lynsey has been so responsible lately! This morning, I was being lazy in bed and I heard her get Nathan out of his crib (yes, she drags him up and over the crib railing and it doesn't seem to bother him). She brought him downstairs and apparently fed him his breakfast. She also made toast for Adam (although later I found out she was so busy getting breakfast for her brothers that she forgot to eat herself:). She is just jumping right into that Momma role lol!). She has been offering to help clean up, and she is getting really good at remembering to put her backpack and winter clothes away when she gets home from school. I'm really proud of the way she is, really quite on her own, taking initiative on a lot of these things. Another perk to having an independent, capable child! They put their mind to it, and they can be a huge help! We love that little girl:).
Adam has been fighting me to get on the bus the last few days - very weird! Never happened before - he has always been nothing but thrilled to get on the bus before. Apparently once the bus goes, he's fine, and he was fine at preschool yesterday, too. I have to remember that every child has good and bad days. The problem is when Adam has a bad day, it is quite bad. I want to mention that the "Open pwease Kywa" was NOT a one time thing, and he does it regularly for his preschool teachers, and now for Brian as well. He will not do it for me. I have been trying to enforce that he needs to use my name and ask me in his "happy voice" if he wants something, but it just seems to agitate him more. He does do it for Brian after a bit of prodding, but he still has never done it for me. I think part of the reason he's had a rough few days is because I am trying to get him to do this, and he does NOT want to for some reason! I am stuck between just letting up on it and continuing to push it, because he has shown that clearly he has the ability to properly request things from other people. It is hard, because as much as you have to "pick your battles" (and with Adam, they really are big battles!) I feel like letting him off on this one is sending him the message that he doesn't need to respect me the same way he respects his teachers and his dad. I don't know . . . I'm so tired of the screaming and just want to give him his granola bar already! I've said it once, I will say it again - parenting (especially parenting an Autistic child) is not for the faint of heart! But we'll figure it out:). This morning was already a lot stressful than yesterday (up until he got on the bus anyway).
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