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I'm using my new computer for this blog! Woo Woo!! I must say I'm falling in love with this computer! It's a lot bigger than I would like but hey if that's the only thing I dislike I'd say were doing pretty good!!

So has anyone seen Ghost Whisperer? I normally dislike shows or movies like this but I've started to watch it and now I'm hooked!! Right now I'm only watching what my DVR records so It's for sure out of order! Anyways, this brings me to my question? What are your favorite shows on TV?

Update: We have just realized Peyton has now been in home therapy for 6 months now. Crazy how fast time fly's by. Yana and I were talking about how much he has learned since we started!
1. can now eat with a spoon
2. learned to do puzzles
3. learned how to properly play with toys (not all toys but the ones he likes)
4. Showing more pretend play
5. less frustration when playing
6. can make monkey, sheep, cat, horse, cow, dog, rooster, and dolphin sounds
7. has signed "more" and "all done"
8. has said "baby", "HI", "uh-oh", "Two", "Sit" and I think there's one more
He doesn't say them on a daily bases but at least we know he can say them!!
9. learned that you can build with blocks and not just line them up. lol
10. His eye contact is getting better. It's still with only people he knows but it's something he may never learned to do! If that's the only thing that sticks that's fine by me!!

His fine motor has done a complete 180! Before therapy he has a hard time picking up and holding things, which now it's amazing!! So lets do a BIG YAY for Peyton!!! YAY!!!

Sadly he end his in home therapy when he turns 3. So in two months we'll have to say bye to Yana and send him off to school. It's kind of crazy that Christopher is going to school soon and I'm so excited for him. Christopher loves kids and I feel confident about him going. I KNOW he's ready but with Peyton I can't bring myself to be excited. I know that it's what he needs but I can't help but think he's just to little! I'm hoping that when we visit the school and see him adapt I'll do much better. I know with all my heart that Christopher can protect himself, speak for himself and walks into something unafraid. However with Peyton if a kid beats up on him he just sits there. He cant communicate how he feels so how will they know what he needs. He is afraid of people. The school can send a bus for him to take him to and from but he would understand that you have to sit on a bus. Ugh OK I just talk and thinking to much! I'm just over analyzing everything!!

Moving on! I'm going to the gym tonight! I must, I must increase my bust!! lol Wish me luck!!!

I really think my belly sticks out more than my a**! lol Thats all I could think of to say on my blog! Just Kidding..
We had a great V-Day! We normally don't do anything. 1 because we never have the money and 2 because it's too much of a hassle! We first started our day by going to Publix and picking out some flowers. The boys got to pick flowers for a girl of their choice. Christopher picked my friend Dana, which I'm starting to wonder if he thinks she his mom because every time we leave her he cries! lol Anyways, Peyton got all of his therapist a flower because he couldn't tell us who he picked and two we were going to see them! After the boys pick their flowers we went to therapy. Peyton did hand the girls his flower but could care less of their reaction. lol We had a pretty good time at therapy mainly because Danny was off and got to come with us. After therapy we went over to the Greenwise Publix and Christopher gave Dana her flower. I must say that she loved it and Christopher loved giving her the flower! I think it's important to start showing how a boy should treat a girl so what better way than give her flowers to make her smile. I hope that my boys will be loving men! We also went to The Cheesecake Factory and had lunch. Which I must say was a great idea because all we had to wait was 10 mins. which meant no freak out from Peyton. Yay! OK well we had one small one! However that wasn't his fault, a woman had slammed a metal door closed and he freaked out!! He jumped, was shaking and started to cry! The poor baby was so afraid! :( After that he was so good! I think the fact that it was so quiet and the lights were down low made him feel calm. Where if we go to Applebee's or some place like that he his a wild child, screaming and jumping! lol He's just silly!!
I got a beautiful ring from Pandora as well!! Which was the best part of the day! Let's be frank, I never really get gifts from Danny and when I do it's knife's or an ironing broad! O yea that's right my hubby is that guy! The guy that give strange gifts, so to get a cute ring was amazing!! Plus I'm usually the giver and hardly the receiver! Which is fine because I LOVE to give gifts!! To follow up the night Danny and I had cheesecake, wine and strawberries! We had quiet alone time which hardly ever happens! So Yay for V-Day!
So how many of you ladies what to here about my boring day today!? Ha well I knew you would! Let's see we woke up (Danny is off today as well) and ate breakfast. After I had to get the boys ready. Peyton was having Yana (therapist) over to "play" and Christopher was going to Target with Danny. See Christopher still had birthday money and he said "mommy me need to buy dragon movie." Which is How To Train Your Dragon! So that was pretty much our afternoon. lol Thrilling isn't it! Now here we are, just got back from walk with my wonderful family and currently watching Glee! So that's my past 2 days hope you enjoyed my rambling!

Ah Tax season! How I love and hate you!! I love to see that money in my account but so sad to see it go. Of course paying bill is a top priority for us as well as a new computer. I start school April 1st, so getting a good computer is a must! We are hoping to come home but now that's up in the air. Of course, like always we are having car problems! If I doesn't take all of our money then we will be coming home still. Fingers crossed!!
We are in the process of transitioning Peyton out of early steps and into a school setting. We will soon be going to schools trying to pick the best one for him. I'm hoping to find a school that has a speech, occupation, and physical therapist that come there. That way after school the only therapy we will have will be ABA. Which will make for less stress for everyone. We are also enrolling Christopher into VPK for a few hours. He is so excited about this!! This boy loves to make friends. Every time we are in the waiting room and he see a kid he'll ask "whats their name mommy?" Of course I tell him that I don't know their name. He will then go up and say "Hi! I'm Christopher!" It's so cute I love it!
I must add that Peyton will be 3 in two months!! I can't believe how fast they grow up!! He wasn't too interested in his last birthday party so I want to do something that will be more for him and not what will be fun for all the other kids. lol Although I'm not too sure what that would be. I do know he LOVES Cars the movie so much that a little boy at therapy had cars shoes on and Peyton followed him everywhere trying to touch the picture on his shoes! lol Such a silly guy!
As you ladies can see I added a picture!! Woo hoo me!! I just want to know where to find a cute template!? So there it is Heather! ;)

so many feelings

I'm needing to vent and it looks like this is how I'm going to do it. As of yesterday 10/12/10 Peyton was diagnose with autism. I've always had a feeling that he could have but always hoped for the best. Hoping for the best didn't prepare me for the words "your son does have autism!" My heart fell to the ground and my head became full of thoughts. They ended it with handing us pamphlets and saying good-bye, meanwhile I'm thinking lets retest, did she say forever, and no where close to talking. Yeah while most mothers say their kids are driving them crazy because they wont shut-up I'm wishing I could just talk to him like I can with Christopher. I held back my tears while we were at the appointment. It wasn't until I call my parents and when they asked how I was doing, if I was OK, I couldn't get any words out. It was then when I just cried, I cried for so many reasons! I cried because I'm sad, mad, confused, relieved,overwhelmed, but of course not limited to! I kind of just don't even know what to feel, I just know I have so many feelings and thoughts right now. I was able to talk to my good friend Katie, which helped so much! I was so glad NOT to here "it's going to be OK" ugh I know it is, later down the road we will all be fine but right now in THIS moment I don't feel OK!! She was able to boost me up and made me feel like I'm strong(even though I don't feel like I am)also that I can hit this head on!!! She said everything I just need to hear and I'm so lucky to have her as a friend! My parents are wonderful to, I know they have my back and the fact that they want to learn more about autism, as well as, ways to help communicate with Peyton speaks volumes! My friend charity even wanted to know about it and asked so many questions and that just showed me she loves Peyton and wants to know every she can, so I am for sure starting to feel the support and realized that I'm not going through this alone!!! Today I also had the support from his therapist(Yana) god love her I had SO many questions for her! One question I asked was: Me "the doctor said he is FAR from being able to talk, so what does this mean, I'm going to have a five year who still cant talk to me?" Yana-" I don't want to sugar coat anything, he could very well be five and not be talking or maybe saying a couple." M-" I hope we can prove it wrong."
I'm just trying to deal with the fact of FORever, but I think once we start taking classes and going to support groups I'll start to feel better because right now I'm just thinking "now what" and I've started doing some reading on just that! One thing I am glad about is the fact that everything I feel right now is normal!

I started my Saturday morning with a nice routine of cleaning. For two reasons one being that it needed a deep clean and two was that Yana would be coming over for Peyton's therapy. Danny was a great helper because he cleaned my kitchen. Granted he didn't deep clean it but hey at least he did something.
After we were done with that it was around lunch time and Christopher was itching to get out of the house, so I sent him and Danny to sonics. I've haven't really tried to many things from there other than drinks but this time I had a chicken sandwich with Texas toast. The sandwich was pretty good but I found that place to be a little expensive, or maybe it's just me?
Shortly after we ate Yana had arrived and the boys were so excited. Every time she comes Peyton runs to the playroom. The playroom is where we do the therapy so I think he just gets excited! Therapy was a blast because he was so wired!!! He just kept jumping up and down clapping and screaming. Of course we would chime in with him and encourage him to keep doing it. It got exhausting for us but Peyton just kept on doing it, cracked me up every time!! I also showed her how he has been doing a puzzle and how he'll keep his focus for quite sometime. All and all it was a good time!!
When she left we decided to make a trip to our favorite store TARGET!! I picked up some window decoration and went on a quest for wasp spray because we had a nest on the boys little tike's swing set. We looked everywhere and they didn't have any, so we left there and went to the gas station on base. Of course they didn't have any either, so we made our way over to the bx and I looked everywhere with no luck. I was getting a little frustrated at this time so I asked an employee if they had any, which of course they did I just wasn't looking hard enough.
Finally we got home and Christopher and I put up the decorations and the boys also had a snack. I gave them marshmallows and pretzels, which Danny thought I was strange for giving them that type of combination but I think it's good! SWEET and SALTY!!! We also grilled stakes tonight mmmmm it was so good. Danny is really starting to master the cooking of a stake! While he was cooking the boys played with their toys(after we sprayed the nest)while I put up the screens for the stairs and rails for the daycare. I'm not sure if I did it how the air force wants it but I know there is no way for a kid to get through what I did so I'm sure they wont say too much. I only got half way done for now, it was quite the project. And so this brings me to now! Danny and I are watching "Get him to the Greek" Have you ever seen it? So far it's not really keeping my attention. I guess I'll have to let you know tomorrow!! Oh and why are three year old sooo bossy???? Christopher has had an attitude all day! "don't talk to me!" "I don't care, nope don't care!" Ugh Well I'd love to vent a little more but I'm off to bed!! Good Night!!!

Relaxing the day away

Who wants to hear of my boring day??? This morning I woke up determined to make broccoli cheese soup. So while I'm making that I get a little grossed out about the ingredients, processed cheese (lots) 1qt. half and half, 2 cans of cream of celery,blah it made me not want to eat it. After cooking it I packaged it up and put it in the freezer, I'm hoping to forget about what all is in there and just enjoy how good it is. Have you ever done that, you go to make something and while your making it you realize how gross the products are? I'm sure I'll eat it at some point because I have had it before when my friend made it and it was SO good. Sure she told me what was in it, however it never really processed until I was making it!!!
Peyton did something bad today! He put his fathers phone in the toilet! Ah You would think that a two and a half year old would know better than to play in the toilet but not mine. I even found him drinking out of it! DISGUSTING!! No matter how many time I spanked his butt for this he still truly enjoys drinking out of it! Where was I may you asked? I was in the kitchen making his lunch. This boy can not be left alone for a minute. I have to keep telling myself that he will grow out of this! He will! He will!! Ha as of right now I can hear him jumping on his bed saying Dada ta ta his usual jibber jabber. Now the thing with him jumping on his bed usually means that he is naked as well! lol 9 times out of 10 he is naked jumping on his bed. Why nap when you can jump naked!!
Today Christopher has been a little grumpy. I asked why he was so grumpy and his reply to me was "because I said so!" I made the mistake of saying that to him and now that's his answer to me when I ask him a question, nice right! I had him watch Beauty and the Beast with me the other night and now that's all he wants to watch not that I mind. Like Peyton he never naps so I let him lay in my room and watch a movie. He is good about laying down and relaxing a bit so I don't mind that he doesn't sleep.
It's been a pretty relaxing day thus far. Tonight I work so the relaxing day will not last. When I get home from work I'll need to clean my house up a bit because on Saturday Yana (Peyton's therapist) will be coming over for our weekly meeting. I usually work Saturday mornings so I try to help Danny have an easy day while I'm away. Plus I'm picky with my cleaning I get upset if it's not done to my liking so that why I just do it. Leaves less fights between Danny and myself.
Not really an exciting day but a relaxing day for sure!