Commitment

Ok, here goes post #2 for this round of which I have promised to focus on blogging.

Lets catch up a bit, shall we???

Still me and the 3 boys.. K-spouse, B-man-now 7, and AJ-now 6.

K is still at work a lot, he does find more time to do fun things with the kids, and they enjoy every chance they get to do something cool with dad.

B-man, now in 2nd grade. We spent a lot of last year going through testing and battling it out with his 1st grade teacher and the school. This proved to be a lot of wasted time, but this year has allowed the comfort of knowing it was all worth it. B-man was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome (AS) last May, which has now become a diagnosis of Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) on the Autism Spectrum.

Im not gonna lie-I liked the AS diagnosis much better that calling him Autistic. Im not biased to one or the other, but I just feel like there is less of an explanation needed for saying he has AS, versus my son is Autistic. Most peoples perception of an autistic child is very unrealistic, and not anything fitting to my child. And, as we all know-the spectrum is wide and personally in some ways-we all fit into it. But Im not a doctor, so Ill go with the rationale they used to remove a diagnosis from medical dictionaries and smush it all into one.

B-man attends weekly counseling sessions and weekly speech therapy session. He is extremely advanced in Math and Science-mainly because they are black and white and based on fact. He gets a little blurry on anything that is slightly "gray". we are currently working on helping him make friends at school, which is very challenging.

AJ, is now in kindergarten. He LOVES School, and school LOVES him. He is a mini-me, and known as quite the social butterfly at school. He is very devious, but smiles and tilts his head and all is forgotten. Its a very dangerous quality. With him growing up and now starting school we are now seeing what we missed out on with B-man. Things we thought were fairly normal for a Kindergartener or 1st grader-not so much.. Its like having a child in school has a whole new meaning for me.

I spend a lot of time feeling guilty that B-man is missing out on such fun childhood things, but then realize that he is enjoying childhood in his own way and loving every minute of it.

Keeping both kids happy and content in their own worlds is very tiresome, but since thats all I know, I will keep at it.

Until next time..