Play with your food. Yup, you heard right.  Micah’s Occupational therapist told me to encourage Micah to play with his food.  Kiss, touch, smash, cut-up, roll it around, push it through a tube, whatever he likes as long as he engages with his food.  (For those reading this that are new to our situation, we […]

Tags: autism, child, choleric, diet, food, fun, micah, Occupational therapy, OT, personality, play, playing with food, reaction, sanguine, temperament
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One of the hardest internal conflicts for me to deal with as a mom is the dilemma of giving oral medication to my 2-year old son when he is sick. What’s the big deal, you ask? Well, let me explain it like this:  If you ever want to the “Cliff Notes” version of what it […]

Tags: autism, cruel, dilema, help, meltdowns, micah, mommy, monster, pain, sensitivity
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I’m up at 1:38am after going to bed.  I can’t sleep.  I’m a light sleeper and even the slightest noises can bother me and rouse me from my sleep.  When I do end up awake in the early mornings I find my mind thinks about the weirdest topics…case-in-point, the reason I’m writing this post. There […]

Tags: blogger, cherish, different viewpoint, disagree, ecstasy, every single moment, Facebook, gratitude, happiness, insomnia, life, love, micah, moments, mommy, not staus quo, parenting, special needs, young child
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…. …. …. …. I’m not good at journaling, never have been.  I just don’t write my thoughts down every day…but I find myself trying to pick up this habit and attempting to journal every once in a while.  It never sticks (also why my blog posts are random and few & far between), but […]

Tags: autism, candid, diagnosis, diary, God, help, hope, journal, micah, reflection, scared, share, special needs child
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We finally received Micah’s autism diagnosis yesterday, after a 4 hour evaluation.  It’s actually a relief to get the official diagnosis because it’s been 5 months of chaos since he had language regression, since we first saw signs of autistic behavior & went to our first doctor’s appointment.  Since then, Sooooo many tests were done, […]

Tags: autism, diagnosis, life, medical, micah, son
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This round of teething for the kiddo is Ex·Cru·Ci·At·Ing! I hope it ends soon because I’m about to go WoNkY. The last 4 molars are killers: Fevers, not eating, crying all day from the pain, irritable/moody, indecisive…and that’s just me! (j/k – I’m just exhausted, and I’m upset that I can’t take away the pain.) […]

Tags: health, micah, milestone, pain, teething, toddler
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http://pinterest.com/pin/145241156702300978/ I can’t upload photos to my blog.  haven’t been able to for 2 years.  The hubby says he’s working on it, but it definitely makes it hard for me to write about stuff without this accessory. I like being able to have pictures.  I’m a visual person. So…I haven’t any pictures up of Micah, […]

Tags: birthday, cupcakes, homemede, martians, micah, space aliens
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When I first started this blog website I intended it to be for me to critique foods and restaurants that I tried, hence the name of the website: Smashed Bananas. Since then there have been so many twists and turns, and so little time…I have also found that I am not the best at keeping  […]

Tags: autism, diagnosis, life, micah, scared, son
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