This past Wednesday, we took Nicholas to the Land of Make Believe, which is a local amusement park with a train, carnival rides and a wading pool filled with slides, a huge pirate ship for them to play on/slide off of, lazy rivers, and more. Nicholas was fantastic! He had such a good day – […]

We took Nicholas to his first movie today (in a theater anyway). We took him to see Ice Age 3 – and he loved it. He was pretty well behaved – and we made it to the end of the movie (which I was not expecting for some reason). He was so cute – had […]

Nicholas has been doing phenominally well and we could not be happier. Two major events have happened – which I have probably already written about, but I will say again is that Nicholas has been doing quite well with the potty. We had one little hiccup, but I think that it was caused from him […]

Well, in less than a week, Nicholas is potty-trained!!!!!!!!! No more diapers (during the day) for Nicholas. We are sooo thrilled with this huge accomplishment! (I have to send out a big thanks to Gymboree for making big boy underpants with trains on them!)

Another biggie, which I forgot to mention, was that Nicholas is understanding emotions and he is even reading our facial expressions and tieing them to emotions. He can identify and tell us when he is sad, mad, happy, etc. When he reads the look on my face, he has said “mommy don’t be mad” “mommy, […]

Sam – you truly are an inspiration!! You should be very, very, very proud of yourself – you are quite talented!! Click to read the story on Age of Autism

Round 34 brought some pretty incredible gains along with it. Nicholas was incredible during the round – absolutely incredible. He started finishing sentences which blew us away. It hit us instantly when he did because we then knew – he UNDERSTOOD what he was hearing. I wanted to jump for joy with it. Sometimes, you […]

Yesterday, I attempted to get Nicholas to take a gelcap – and he DID!! I decided to try with these tiny Oil of Oregano gepcaps – smallest ones I could find. I went first and showed him step by step and then asked him to try it. (promising him a trip to the store, of […]

So, we took a ride yesterday and did a few different things – and I have to comment on it because when we’ve tried going several places with Nicholas – it always seemed to end in a breakdown of sorts…. So, first stop: Toys R Us. Yes, I know, I know – the kid does […]

We are so excited with the way Nicholas is progressing. Every day, he’s just getting better and better!! A couple of things he has done since my last update: – He is singing the ABC song in it’s entirety. I didn’t even know he could. I just started singing it to him and he joined […]