My daughter asked a few weeks back, “Why is there a line of juices on the kitchen counter?”. 🤣 It’s an autism thing. 🤷‍♀️ Today it’s a line of water bottles and cups. Respect the line! 💙❤️

I love this! I don’t know who the author is (I would love to give them the credit) because it is so true! Many people ask us how do we know what my son wants? My answer is always: Although he doesn’t speak, he does communicate. How do we know that he wanted to go…

My son doesn’t pay much attention to other kids. Every now and then we see that he acknowledges them but it is infrequent. His teachers will sometimes mention how he hugged one is his classmates or helped in picking up their pencil but it’s rare. The one thing that is not rare is how he…

This email is from my son’s speech therapist at school. I just love to read these stories. ❤️

I have noticed that after we’ve had a very rough day, the next few weeks are pretty good. Since his last aggressive meltdown, the monkey has been on his best behavior. This morning he’s outside in the swings about to get ready to go to therapy, and he gladly listens. It also has to do…

The monkey’s after school routine is this: My parents wait for him at my home since the bus drops him off right in front of our house. After he gets dropped off, he loves to go outside our backyard and swing. He’d swing the entire day and night if we let him. On Fridays I…

Yesterday we had to go to the other side of the city and we had to drive thru our mountains. We have a beautiful backyard view from our home of the mountains but driving in between them is always so beautiful. The monkey is typically oblivious to these things. He does great in car rides…