This beautiful weather we are having has been our saving grace. Nice weather plus a very busy 2 yr old equals good bedtimes! If only we had a backyard! To start on a good note, Reilly has been saying some new words; ready,stay,please,welcome, and hand. He gets super excited when he go out and jumps up and down and says "yeah, yeah, yeah" while he puts his hands in the air. He doesnt' always talk but hearing new words is one step closer for us to one day actually have a intelligable conversation with him!

On a bad note, we've been very concerned with Reilly's high safety risk. He's a pretty dangerous kid and we cannot take our eyes off him. Because he has a very high memory he knows where the dangerous objects are in the house and will do anything, I mean absolutely anything to get it. Putting objects up high wont' suffice him. He will just go get any object, whether it's a chair,stool, box or any toy he can stand on, stack them dangerously even on the counter to climb to get it. He's ran around the house with steak knives, that he's taken from a safety-locked dishwasher and even walked out the front door on us. He's a big climber and very quiet at it so we never know what he's getting into. He doesn't tell us when he's hurt himself, nor does he acknowledge it, unless it really scared him from getting into something, so it's worrysome for us that we don't know where he gets all the bruises from on his body. We keep trying to tell him "feet on the ground", but with no luck so far. I think I should go buy him a bubble to live in! Who am I kidding? He'll just pop it! ha ha!

Were also looking at taking Reilly to a feeding Intervention team so they can help us with his extremely limited diet. Hopefully something will work so we will step out of our pb and toast and chicken strips or ketchup world.

One thing I did want to say about Reilly that most people don't know is that he thinks Brandon and I are pieces of furniture. Objects in the house, not parents. Were sure he just thinks our names are Mom and Dad, just like his name is Reilly. If he wants to sit on the couch, he won't sit beside you. He sits ontop of you. Which most people think, he's sitting on your lap. No. He makes no eye contact with you, backs up and sits on you and doesn't even say a word to you. It happens quite often and climbs all over us all day as if were objects to climb. Which if your a bit claustrophobic like I am, it makes it a bit frustrating!

I really hope one day he can look me in the eye and say " I love you Mommy". I have never heard him say it before and it would mean the world to me. The simple things in life people take for granted that thier children say or do, I wish our child could. I love him none the less but I wish I could see who he really is beyond the "Autism".