San Diego Autism Society

Last night I went to the North County Autism Society parent support group. It's a great small group of parents who  can support you through whatever process you're at with your kids. The director of the north county group is ready to step down so she asked if I wanted to take over. I do! So for the next couple of months we'll see if I can do it while she shows me the ropes. Ya for mamma!

I've been a member for about a year and I've been looking for something I can so that is good for me and my family. This looks like it's just the ticket. Wish us luck!

The NEW Year

It's a new year! We all got a mild cold and I'm still recovering. Although the kids seem good. Mary starts gymnastics again today and that means Chick fil A tonight with daddy.

Here's Mary having some dinner with the Chick fil A cow. 

I think my new year's resolution will be to keep up my blog. Although I don't think very many people read it. I also plan to do more with my meetup groups. 

Also last week Ronin got another x-ray for his chest and the pulmonologist at Children's said that his lungs look clear! Ya! They just upped his dose of his Flovent so he takes it twice a day now. Basically I guess he has really bad asthma. And we'll have to keep an eye on it as he gets older.

School Pictures

Here's a little blurb about school pictures. I think it's awesome that I got Mary preschool pics. Not all preschools give you pictures. It took a while for them to come in. We took them at the beginning of October and we finally got them mid December. But here it is!

We had a couple to choose from but this one was the cutest!

And here's a pic of me from when I was Mary's age. Cute!

Thanksgiving and Christmas

So Thanksgiving was kind of a wash. We had an ok day but Mary was screaming all day and having a bunch of mini meltdowns. Then Rich was home from Thursday to Sunday but then I had to work all weekend. Yup I got a job at Best Buy for the holidays and have now been subsequently "let go" because I was hired as seasonal. I was told I'd probably get to stay on but I guess it's not to be. But I did earn enough money to pay for some car repairs and a vacation with the girls to Vegas! I would like to earn a little more money but ah well.


For the holidays we made Turkey Sugar Cookies. Which we saw on Nick Jr and Mary had to make them. They turned out pretty good.

We got to go to go to Legoland with Rich's family. That was pretty fun. Everyone joined in the rides and snow.

Then we had an early Christmas.

 And we did actually make a gingerbread house this year courtesy of Target.

Halloween Fun!

In October we had some Halloween fun. We went to legoland for a day. We had a good time. But Mary got sick I think because she swallowed to much water. But then after an hour she felt fine. We got to go trick or treating there. We usually go ever year.

Then we went trick or treating on our block. This was the first year that we could go. We haven't had a good neighborhood til now. This year our block was great! Half the houses were decorated for Halloween and there were tons of kids out.Mary and Ronin had a great time. Roro even lasted longer than Mary. Then he discovered chocolate. He ate everything chocolate from nuts to almond joy. And in the end they didn't obsess too much about the candy. Luckily I have kids who forget about the candy the next day. So no crazy candy binges.

There'll be a new post soon about Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then maybe we'll be caught up.

School Begins (in September)

I'm a little behind in catching up on my blogs. Just pretend this is September.

So in May and June we moved and Grandma moved in with us. We moved from Oceanside to Fallbrook. And we ended up in the Bonsall Union School District. Bonsall is this little town of 1,000 tucked between Oceanside and Fallbrook. Great town and a great school district. In Oceanside we had trouble getting Mary in a special ed preschool. But Bonsall has been wonderful and has a special ed teacher that is very knowledgeable about high functioning autism. So Mary is in a great mixed typical and special ed classroom. She may be able to be in a regular kindergarten next year. We'll see.

Here she is on her first day of school. She loves school and is doing very well. She's writing her name and mommy, daddy and Ronin and she's learned her alphabet.

It really has been that long!

So it's been since July! Well I'll do a few post to keep some chronological order.


In August we had the kids' birthday party. Since Mary is the 3rd and Ronin is the 25th, we had a party on the 13th. I think we might just do a party every other year.

It was an Angry Birds Party. Mary got an Angry Birds shirt and I had a cake made for her. It was pretty fun. And if you're not sure who the Angry Birds are click here.

Ronin turned 2 and Mary turned 4. You can see Roro's cake with the Bot from UmiZoomi on it and Mary's cake is the Angry Birds.

 We had pin the egg on the poster and lots of balloons.

  Here you see the toy room is a mess. But the kids had fun!

And here's Mary with some Angry Birds.

 

Here's everyone getting ready for the 4 pinata.

 So I think that the party was a success and Mary had been so excited about it. Next year I think we'll just go to Chuck E Cheese or maybe a quiet night at home with cake and ice cream. Or maybe just take the kids out to dinner and have someone else clean up the mess.