Update June 2011

Well since my last post our lives have really turned upside down. In March we welcomed our third child, a beautiful baby girl. Baby Mila Aibhlinn has joined the Morris clan and her sweet disposition and contagious smile captivate our wild and crazy boys. Shortly after her arrival, Cody, my husband took a job in Baton Rouge, LA, and we will be moving mid June. We will be leaving all our therapists, clinics, doctors, friends and all that we've fought to get. But, not for nothing. We believe that God is leading us to Louisiana and what he has in store we do not know. Like our move to Des Moines from Lincoln, we were very uncertain. We thought we were taking a huge risk, but moving to Des Moines was the best thing that has ever happened to our family thus far. We have been so richly blessed in every way. Sully and Lochlan would have never had the services, therapists or opportunities if we hadn't taken a step of faith and jumped. So, we stand at the edge again. Trusting in a God that we serve, that this leap could be the best thing that has ever happened to us. We ask for your prayers, for wisdom and faith, that the transition would go smoothly and that the boys we survive all that is unstructured and chaos. So far it has been very hard on them. To leave the relationships they worked so hard to make, to leave all that is safe and dependable for uncertainty and disorganization. We ask for prayer for Cody and I so that we have God's unconditional patience and resilience in this time of tantrums, stimming, rules and rigidity.  We are very sad to leave our friends and church family behind. I can only hope that we will build friendships and supports in Louisana like we have had in Des Moines.

Update

Well, I guess I am not getting any better at keeping up with our blog!! :) I do try my best. Currently both the boys are doing social skills therapy through an autism center in our area every morning. Lochlan's in home programing has stopped due to waiver issues and so our life has changed dramatically over the course of the last couple months. We are also expecting our third baby ( a girl!) and due in March of 2011. I am still currently homeschooling Sully and Lochlan is going to preschool in the afternoons. Other than that we keep busy trying to keep up with going every day squeezing in appts in the afternoons when we can. We are currently doing a milk free organic diet. I am not sure if we will be able to continue on this type of diet as stimming has taken over our house and behavior is pretty rigid and impulsive. I keep praying that God would give me guidance as we have found some new freedom in a less restrictive diet. (the boys are enjoying it as well!)
As for Lochlan and his big Buddha belly. He was off antibiotics for about 4 1/2 months and doing well at first. Then little by little the distention returned and he started to stop stooling all together. So back on the antibiotics we go again for another 6 months. Dysmotility testing has been pushed out to early fall if we are lucky at this point. This too I keep praying that God would send answers my way. We have had some regression with the discontinuing of in-home ABA and so we are trying to work some of that out. He just doesn't do well with any kind of free-time. Lochlan has developed a love for computers and all things electronic and steals my iPhone every chance he gets.

Sully continues to do well. We went to Minneapolis to see the Epilepsy Center for a Neuropsych evaluation. The auditory processing issues have been identified as attention issues and we will need to do more testing at some point. We have added pycnogenol to our supplement list in order to help him out. As for now the jury is still out if it will do enough. He is doing well at school work despite needing constant prompting and really enjoys going to the autism center to play with his friends.

Every day we do the same grind and try to find humor in the chaos!!!

Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield on His MMR Study (Part 1 of 10)

For the remaining parts of Dr. Wakefields interview with Dr. Mercola check them out on YouTube or Mercola.com

Also check out
www.ageofautism.com/2011/01/keeping-anderson-cooper-honest-is-brian-deer-the-fraud.html