Spent Saturday afternoon with our next door neighbors. They're the best! You hear about kids being best friends with the kid next door but it actually (I think) rarely ever happens. We lucked out... Dana and Emily are. They're wonderful neighbors. And very understanding and accommodating about Alex's quirky special needs (like the necessity of keeping him out of the bathroom else he'll stim on flushing the toilet over and over again... something that keeps us from taking Alex over to anyone else's house other than his grandparents' who have "Alex proofed" their bathrooms). And preparing food he can have because he's on the gfcf diet. Being on the diet's hard on a kid during the summer with all its barbecues and gatherings. It sounds... odd... overprotective... unnecessary... but you haven't seen him when he has an "infraction." Alex turns into a complete, out of control mess. I'll write more later about the diet and how its been HUGE in helping him (along with hundreds of other autistic people) in another post. Anyway, we had a great time. Laurie and Steve are awesome. Steve was hilarious playing with the kids in the water. Summer just isn't summer without the sound of water splashing, kids laughing and screaming.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Cookout!
Spent Saturday afternoon with our next door neighbors. They're the best! You hear about kids being best friends with the kid next door but it actually (I think) rarely ever happens. We lucked out... Dana and Emily are. They're wonderful neighbors. And very understanding and accommodating about Alex's quirky special needs (like the necessity of keeping him out of the bathroom else he'll stim on flushing the toilet over and over again... something that keeps us from taking Alex over to anyone else's house other than his grandparents' who have "Alex proofed" their bathrooms). And preparing food he can have because he's on the gfcf diet. Being on the diet's hard on a kid during the summer with all its barbecues and gatherings. It sounds... odd... overprotective... unnecessary... but you haven't seen him when he has an "infraction." Alex turns into a complete, out of control mess. I'll write more later about the diet and how its been HUGE in helping him (along with hundreds of other autistic people) in another post. Anyway, we had a great time. Laurie and Steve are awesome. Steve was hilarious playing with the kids in the water. Summer just isn't summer without the sound of water splashing, kids laughing and screaming.
