Progress with Easter

In the past holidays have always been a HUGE struggle for Matthias. When he was little he never did well with big crowds or lots of noise. Of course the older he got, it was increasingly harder to take him places for the holidays or have my large family come over. After his diagnosis of autism I started to learn what to do to ease the stress level for him. Each year it got a little better and this past year, well on the holidays quite frankly......... I've been BLOWN AWAY!!! Christmas went so smoothly I could hardly believe it, and his birthday party went great, and now Easter! Well for the first time in 5 years of his life he dyed easter eggs with very little prompting by me and he had fun!!! Then Easter morning was great! (Even though we were not able to attend church we do have a home church that works great with him, but they don't have sunday school on easter and church service well that will be a huge accomplishment for him one day :) ) He found his easter basket and had fun playing with his new toys and then when his cousins came over for the egg hunt he did great!! And even told me, Mommy this is fun!!!

Daily he is improving so much with his language skills, its amazing!! Matthias has never been able to tell me, without prompting him to say so, Mommy this is fun!! He is starting to verbalize so many things that I'm starting to lose track! So from time to time, you may see little blogs with just words or sentences or expressions he has said. This way I can show the progress he is making :)...

I hope you all had a great easter! I know we did! Next year we're aiming for being able to go to church together!!!

Much Love
Lisa