Ok , I'm not going to lie here, I'm new to this whole blogging thing and I'm just going to give it my best shot! If I bore you today, give me some time, I promise my posts will get more interesting. I guess I'll start with a little background on myself and my family.......
My name is Marie. My husband and I have been married a little over 13 years now, and we have spent the past 9 years of that living the military dream. We have 2 great kids. Felicity is 11 and Evan is 6. Evan will most likely be the main subject of many of my blogs. You see, Evan is my special baby. Not to say that he is more special to me than my daughter. Both of my children are equally special to me in so many ways. Evan, well he has been the child that taught me how to be a mother. Evan was born with sever hearing loss, and at the age of 3 was diagnosed with sever autism and mental retardation (hmmmm, a subject for another post). He has taught me patients, compassion, and how to appreciate the little things our kids do that make us so proud.
Felicity is my "typical" child, however, she is by no means typical. She is truly an amazing, strong girl! I have never known of such willingness to help with a sibling at such a young age. She loves her brother more than anything and would to whatever she needed to for him. The girl get frustrated sometimes, but who wouldn't. I watch her with her little brother and can't help but think how lucky we are to have the two of them together.
So as I'm sitting here trying to think of what I want to really be the subject of this, my son is opening and closing the refrigerator and freezer. The boy loves to eat! I wish I could eat as much as he does and stay thin. I guess he just decided to snack on some raw broccoli. We decided to put him on the controversial GF/CF diet shortly after he was diagnosed. I know it does not work for all kids on the spectrum, but it does for him. We kept him on the diet for about a year and took him off, as a little experiment. Let's just say it did not take long for us to figure out that IT WORKED! Too much yeast in a short period of time makes him nothing short of homicidal. I'm not here to tell you all to put your kids on this diet. I'm just saying that it works for my kid. Now, after doing it for so long, it has gotten so much easier too. I've made up recipes myself and most nights Evan can eat exactly what the rest of us eat.
Evan has also been know to favor the non food items for snacks as well. We went thought a serious PICA faze about a year ago. Talk about some drama. Evan was eating sand, paint, glue, pretty much anything he could put in his mouth he swallowed. I consulted with his pediatrician who decided to so some blood work. Iron, very low.....lead, HIGH! Not lethal high, but high enough for the doctor to call me and say "I've gotten the health department involved". OMG! So turns out, when my son was gnawing on the window sills it was not the best thing in the world because underneath all that paint was lead paint from many, many years ago. It wasn't like I didn't try to stop him, but what am I suppose to do? Follow him EVERYWHERE he goes? By the way, we lived in military housing at the time. Can I just say, having the housing office come in to do an annual inspection and walking into the health department being there too, ummmm awkward moment. I mean, we knew the lead paint was there, but we didn't really expect our son to make a habit of eating the paint off the walls either. Long *dramatic* story, short, everything worked out, Evan's lead count came down and he stopped eating paint :-)
So, I guess this kind of turned into a blog about Evan's eating habits. Hope it was not too boring.
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