I've been tagged

OK. So I am supposed to write 8 random things about myself.

1. I became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. at the age of 9
2. I was a vegetarian for 6 years and a vegan for 1 before my now DH reverted me back to meat eating
3. while I have had non kosher beef & chicken at one point in my life, I have never tasted seafood or pork
   
4. I love girly movies (Romantic Comedies, Dramas...) but I also like Sci-Fi like Star Trek & X-Men
5. My tongue is pierced
6. Last year I finally gave up on watching All My Children which I had watched since I was 5 years old! (with my aunt & sister).
   
7. I briefly dabbled in paganism during my college years
8. I have always wanted to be a wife & mom

I know it's been awhile...

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Victor has been sick off & on but he is finally on an upswing again - he woke up on his own this morning (we've been having to get him up lately) and was in a good mood all morning. His appetite is back and he is trying new & regular foods again (he was limiting himself to peanut butter & jelly sandwiches or chicken nuggets for days!). He is still dairy free and we see no difference. Maybe the real trick is to be both at the same time (which we plan on doing next) but it doesn't seem to be doing much for my friend's son Austin either. Mayeb teh diet just doesn't work for everyone.

A week and a half ago, Victor had an appointment with his Dev Pedi (this was a follow-up) and he officially diagnosed him with Autism. It was expected but still hard. I feel like Victor has so many strengths that I often wonder if there should be 2 separate Autism disorders - one with "classic" symptoms like lack of eye contact, behavior difficulties, and not wanting to be touched, and then one with great hugging, great eye contact, but really bad communication skills and sensory processing difficulties. Maybe part of me is still in denial.

bye bye casein, hello gluten

After much thought we have reintroduced gluten into Victor's diet. Our original plan was to leave him gluten free & take out casein on top of it so we would be GFCF but we really have not seen any indications that this has been working for us. We reintroduced gluten on Friday and he had a whole weekend of eating whatever he wanted. Today we took out casein. We're going to try this out for at least a month as well and then possibly do GFCF after that. So now this blog is named wrong but oh well!

Halloween was fun. We made it to about 2 dozen houses. Victor was a trooper. He seemed to have a good time (he loves being outside). He didn't quite understand what we were doing and didn't get any candy into his bag by himself but he loved going up to people's doors with mommy & daddy. Many times he chose which candy he wanted & then we put it in his bag for him.

Tomorrow we have a group meeting with EI. My husband, myself, EI coordinator, Special Ed 1, Special Ed 2, OT, & ST are all meeting up to go over Victor's plan. He has not made the improvements we were hoping for when we started this 7 months ago. He just got a new ST recently who is doing AVB with him & we are hoping that will help him more but they all want to increase his services. He currently has OT 2 times a week & she wants to bump it to 3, ST also 2, and she wants to bump it to 4, Special Ed 4 times, and they want to bump it to 5. OT also wanted us to get a PT eval but we really don't think he really needs it. I am not opposed to an eval but my DH really doesn't want to introduce another person - we just want them to focus on getting him to communicate.