Happy 2nd Birthday Joseph!

It brings big soppy wet tears to my mascara smeared eyes on this beautiful September morning to celebrate my son's second birthday! I am as happy and joyful as any mother should be! We modified our celebration plans this year to accommodate Joey's autism, sensory overload is easy with tons of cake and ice cream and people and presents, my goal as his Mom, his only voice for now, is to make sure he has the best birthday possible. We went up to Camp-run-a-muk yesterday. It was fantastic to see the whole family! It was Joey's Great Grandma's 70th Birthday party! Joey played at the park with Ray Ray for over 2 and half hours. It was so amazing to see him playing with another child. He did however starting climbing the stairs and going down the slide by himself after about 20 minutes. He continued to do that the rest of the time. We had to do the usual drive him around to get him to nap, but were used to that by now. He didn't eat a whole lot which is pretty normal when hes in a new place and playing so much. We decided to have Ray Ray come back with us to have a slumber party! We drove back around 6:30 got home around 7:30. The kids were so cute sitting at the little table eating their dinner. After, we had a crazy wet bath time. Followed by snuggle time on the love seat watching Lion King. They ate little cups of chocolate pudding. That required a t-shirt change for Joey. I got both of them to sleep by 10 pm, a large feet in its own.

This morning Joey was up first at about 8. I made maple sausage, red home fries, and scrambled eggs. Joey ate sausage. Ray and Joey are all dressed and ready to go. We're headed to the Supermall to go to the jump jump. It's a place that has the big air filled jumpy's and slides. I have wanted to take Joey for some time but they have a age limit of 2 and older. So today is that day! Then I'm going to come home and make him a coconut cream pudding cake. We have to meet up with Ray Ray's Mom later in the afternoon. Overall, I'm hoping this is a great birthday for Joey.

As we embark on another year in the world of Autism I continue to pray that God sticks with us. We are going to face challenges together as a family, I know with Nick by my side, the help of the therapy team, and our amazing nanny were going to make it with flying colors on to 3 years old!