letthewookiewin
<font color=blue>"That's 'cause droids don't pull
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Yeah the past two trips were much easier to lack for. I am going to need a second suitcase which is ridiculous for a weekend trip.
I am going to WDW and not even DD can take away that magicHave fun at the mall, I hope you find some great deals!!!!
Friday definitely needs to be a break in the "festivities" otherwise I may end up in a mental institute this weekend instead of WDWWhat are your plans for the weekend?
Okay, first, WL, woohoo!!!! So glad you finally got that figured out!!!!! Second I totally understand what you have been through with your younger DS. My oldest DS is my easy one too. We knew DS9 had something wrong when he was 3, but of course it is too early diagnose at that age and at 4 a psychologist told us that he was brilliant but in his own world. As the years went on I knew in my heart it was Asperger's Syndrome (on the autism spectrum) and sure enough he finally got that diagnosis when he was 6. DD has always been difficult and I always suspected she had ADHD but her preschool teachers kept telling me no way, well that was just her anxiety keeping her quiet at school. Her first grade teacher knew right away that she had ADHD and I finally felt like I wasn't loosing my mind. We expected the official diagnosis to be ADHD, but we were so lucky to also have her diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and oppositional defiance disorder on top of combined type ADHD!! I swear my life is a swirling world of acronyms, LOL!!!
And OH MY about the funky happenings in your bedroom, EEK!!!!!
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For while I thought I was losing my mind. Then one day I watched Oprah, which was odd b/c I usually didn't do it. Jenny McCarthy and Holly Robinson Peete were on it. They were talking about their children that had Autism. Jenny kept saying that a mother knows when something is wrong and to just follow their heart on what they feel is best. My mil (a nurse) had been saying since he was a baby that she thought something was wrong, but my DH blew it off as her being "doom and gloom", which she tends to be. After I saw the Oprah, I called his pedi and asked for the number of a neurologist they suggested. They asked why, said they would talk to the doctor, and call me back. When they did, the doctor said that he refused to give me the name of a neurologist and wanted to try a different medication. I refused and said that if they wouldn't give me the number to one, I would call my insurance and just find one that way. My DH kept telling me I was "grasping at straws", but I said that I would grasp at every straw until I found out what was really going on with him. The DH still didn't believe the diagnosis, until he came to an appt with us and the neurologist did a hyperventilation test on the DS and he had a petite mal seizure big enough for us to notice it.
Our main problem with his learning is that he doesn't put the effort into it, it's not that he doesn't understand or can't do it. He's behind on his reading, but I know he can read way better than he shows the teachers. We've caught him reading things he acts like he can't, when he doesn't think anyone is around. Heck by the first grade, he was talking about DNA, how to collect it, and where to collect it in order to clone someone. Oh, and also the time space continuum. The way he talked about both, he totally understood what he was talking about and not just regurgitating something he had seen on tv.
Mine is GF with SAB and closer parking![]()
I think we can agree then, that one of the ingredients to the perfect WDW is SAB.
My DS11 is having the same kinda year, and we've never had issues...adolescence....ugh![]()
I'm beginning to think Mark Twain was right about teenagers. He supposedly advised parents that "when a child turns 13, his parents should put him in a barrel, close the lid, and feed him through a hole in the side. Then, when he turns 16, plug up the hole."
It usually is...just sayin....
I hope it is. This is the last WDW trip for us for a while, so I want to make it super special. The DH wants to do some non-Disney things, and I promised we would. I just would love to see the new Fantasyland while it is still new. In 2014, he wants to do a cruise. I want it to be small, so we can save money for a big vacation in 2015. That will be our 20th year wedding anniversary and I want to do something big. Maybe like London/Paris.