5 years old...wow

I took Kayt to a pediatric neurologist Friday, February 3, 2012 and after speaking with her for about 5 minutes he said, " Well she is definitely on the spectrum, no doubt about that. Luckily it is such a broad spectrum and she is on an acute portion of it." Hehe he said my girl was cute...lol But seriously I guess there is always that part of me that is waiting for a doctor to say oh michelle it is all in your head, she is just fine! I mean seriously I would rather say OH I WAS WRONG, than to tell someone that I know my baby has autism. I know that we all have a struggle as parents already, but to add on top of that the fact that there is such a struggle with every day things makes it even harder.
The doc did give me a little advice that may help others also! HE said with trying to teach our children things that others will find something they just do we have to go about it differently. For an example with an autistic child you cannot just turn their attention on something else, and I found out us trying different techniques is what is causing our efforts to be fruitless. He said no matter what we have to stay consistent with what we are doing for example if we take her to the room after she plays in the dogs water then we have to do it that exact same way in order for her to stop doing it. To her, even though she has trouble connecting the punishment to the result you make it more of them going together.. So you keep it the same way every time, however, if you do it a different way that one time even after doing it 30 times that will hurt the effort and will be like starting all over again! It makes soooo much sense! We have just been ruining all of our efforts! Sabotaging ourselves! Ugh that was soooo sucky to kknow that if someone could have told us this long ago we prob could have saved a lot of frustration! So, this is our next thing to try :)

Okay so now to speak on where she is at this moment in life. Kaytlin is doing quite well, she is able to count to 20 with no problems if it is in school, so like she connects that and school and can do it well. If she is not in school she tends to miss a few numbers here and there, I don't think it is as much of pulling my leg as it is the place with the action. She can recognize K for her name but that is it so far. She recognizes her name when she sees it all together, but not if you ask her to find the letters individually without having just those letters out.

Kayt turned 5 this past Jan 22, we had a wonderful turnout for her birthday party! She loved having so many people here for her.. She got tons of Barbies :) Today we got her brother a bed and put it in her room, we are going to try to let them room together now that he is big enough to get me if something is going wrong.