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For those who don't know, Alex has been Educationally diagnosed on the autism spectrum and we wanted medical diagnosis, but the wait list is 9-12 months - our appointment was the 1st of December, but I told them we could come with a couple hours notice for a cancellation. They called Tuesday afternoon, hoping to fill a cancellation spot for Wednesday morning! I don't always know the Lord's reason for why He does things, but I'm sure there's a reason why the appointment for Medical Testing happened to be at the same day/time that we were supposed to be at the clinic for Food Therapy Testing. Of course we cancelled our Food Therapy appointment, which we cannot get in for another one until November.Alex did a wonderful job during the long tests. He scores on the spectrum, so Medical Diagnosis is High Functioning Autism. The ladies asked how I felt, is this what I had expected, did I get what I wanted from them? I just answered "yes", but truly don't know how I feel. All I know is now that I have the medical form in my hand, I'm going to be able to get him everything that's available to us! It's going to be a long road, but Andy and I are ready to do all that we need to as Alex's parents - Andy's exact words were, "whatever it takes, however much it costs, you have free reign here, get him what he needs"! We appreciate your prayers and happy thoughts, we'll keep you posted along the way of our journey!
My friend Karen just shared this recipe and I'm putting it here on my blog for two reasons, one: for any other mammas that have non veggie eating kiddies and two: if it's here, I cannot lose the recipe!I'm definitely going to make these for Alex, I'll try anything to get him to eat veggies!ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES1 cup raw grated zucchini (I used my cuisinart...really only need about 1 or 2 depending on the size of them)1 cup sugar1/2 cup margarine1 beaten egg2 cups flour1 tsp. soda1 tsp. cinnamon1/2 tsp. cloves1 tsp vanilla1/2 tsp. salt1/2 cup chocolate chipsMix dry ingredients then add the rest. Drop by teaspoon on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. (I made mine regular cookie size and ended up cooking them for an extra few minutes because they stay pretty moist when they're cooking.
After church yesterday, we headed to the county fair! It was fun!!Alex loved riding down the big slides on burlap sacks:
His fave, the dragon roller coaster and he LOVES getting to ride in the very front:
Alex and Andy get on the Musik Machine:
It was very fun, but loooong, Andy said especially too long when going backwards!
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's my men way up high in the sky:
I went on 1 ride - when we got off Alex said, "that was dizzy!", yes it was:
Mr. Super slider:
We checked out the 4H animals. Alex kept following this cow and looking at his privates - it was a boy cow, which greatly disappointed Alex, he wanted to milk a cow!
This goat loved everyone, especially when you got near the gate to leave, he wanted OUT of there!
On the way out, we stopped to look at some old cars:
I had to take this picture for my mom - we're in front of a Corvair, that was what her first car was, but hers was creme colored:
As we were driving out, we passed this sign and I yelled, "Stop, I want to get a picture of that sign" to Andy. Well, he pulled over, waited for the cars to all pass, and backed up for me to take this picture. Yep, he's coming around to indulging his crazy scrapbooking wife!!!
It was such a fun weekend and as we sat on our front porch last night enjoying the evening we talked about how thankful we are for all we've been blessed with. It was very Norman Rockwell, except with a green and purple stain-faced 5 year old slurping his Ninja Turtle popcicle from the ice cream truck!!
Andy wanted a tube to pull the kids behind the boat, so he heads off to Gander Mtn (Lakeville's idea of Bass Pro) and returns with a monster! This thing was SO huge that once blown up we couldn't fit it in the back of our truck (it has a top on the back), so our friends came with their truck and three tie-down straps later, we were headed to the boat ramp at 20mph with our green monster!The first ride, Mr. Jason sat with Alex and Sami:
We headed to the boat dock to pick up Susan and Madi - Madi hopped in the monster too:
After the initial ride, Alex and Sami rode it by themselves - it's very stable, it should be, it's almost as big as our boat! I even rode it with Alex, it's very fun, but I won't be riding it without a child on there with me because it will flip if Andy wants it to, and he won't flip it with the kids, so they're my safety net!!Good times, good times!
