More Amazing Days!!!!

Last weekend I did our fourth round of chelation for five and a half days. We started seeing some improvements in behavior right away and they keep coming! The other day my mother and I took the four little guys to a local playground. I saw that it was right next to a lake with a fountain spraying into the air and figured I would be spending the entire time trying to control my son who would be tantruming to get to the water. But he was fine! He made one attempt at running to the water. My mother grabbed him and he actually walked willingly back to the playground and continued to play! This is the complete opposite of what happened last weekend when we took a walk along a trail that passed a lake. I couldn't physically get Reece to walk away and my husband had to pick him up and carry him until we were away from it. He also played on the playground like the other kids. Usually he would find the little steering wheel that all these sets seem to have and would spend most of his time spinning the wheel until we told him to slide down the slide. sometimes we would physically have to remove him. It would kill me to see him "stuck" there spinning the wheel and yelling, oblivious to everything else. But this time I didn't even have to tell him to do anything else. He would pass the wheel, give it a spin or two and then move on all by himself to go down the slide! This was huge for him!

Reece has also become obsessed with Bob the Builder. It's tough to get his Bob pj's off him and I must admit he has spent all night and day in them more than once now! But it is wonderful to see him have a favorite character that he loves, just like his sisters love Dora or Lightning McQueen. The other night I told them it was time for Bob the Builder--meaning I was going to put him on tv so they could sit and relax before bed. (We had a party and the kids were really wound up!) While I was getting the tv on, I heard Reece upstairs. I thought he just took the opportunity to get into something upstairs while I was occupied with the tv. But when I went up to get him, he was in his room. He opened the top dresser drawer where his pj's are and was reaching in and pulling stuff up to find his Bob pj's! He wanted to wear them while he watched the show! I was shocked because he has never gone searching his dresser for something he wanted. I put his pj's on him and he ran downstairs to watch the show with his sisters. It was wonderful! I was looking at Bob the Builder things on Ebay and he sat on my lap pointing out what he liked and saying "My Bob" on his own! Only a couple months ago he wouldn't point at anything and here he is pointing at things he likes without prompting!

Yesterday we went to Poppop's house. They always have a bubble maker out that the kids love to play with. Reece has always just yelled and stimmed at it. But yesterday he was having fun popping the bubbles. He and Erin were racing after the bubbles to pop them before the other one did! It was so much fun to watch. He was playing with her and laughing. Then he was sitting on one swing while t was on the other and he was watching and imitating her. He tried to pump his legs to swing. Then when she leaned way back and laughed, he did the same thing!! This is a kid who last year was just learning to sit in a "big kid" swing and had no idea what to do. I am so amazed at how far he has come physically in the last year. Every day I look forward to what wonderful things Reece is going to show us he can do!