My poor blog has been sorefully neglected lately.  No excuse really, well, except for the holidays, out of town visitors, and Gabe’s first birthday.  Maybe the fact that I feel like I can’t string two words together to form a sentence.  But nevermind!  I’m back and there is lots to report!

We got word that Tristan has officially been accepted into the Preschool Autism program with the Children’s Hospital – YAY!  I spoke to one of the program directors last week and she filled me in on some of the details.  It has a looong waiting list (10 months) but once he is in then he will qualify for free preschool.  The only downside with the preschool is that because we are in a small town it will mean that Tristan will just attend a normal preschool and they will send down a special teacher’s aid for him, I’m not sure how I feel about that.  In theory it sounds good – Tristan gets interaction, he gets to see how “normal” children play and learn from them.  The problem is though that most typical preschools have a large component of group singing and sitting required, two things that drive Tristan up the wall.  Plus he hates crowds.  But, we’ll see.  If all else fails I will see if the teacher’s aid can come to our home instead and we can work on social interaction through gym classes and swimming lessons.

I’ve also got dad and I signed up for some resource classes in February and March to learn about some of the programs available in our community to help, as well as to give us some tips and tricks to use in the meantime before therapy starts.  Hopefully they have some good info!

I’ve got to call the Speech Pathologist tomorrow and make an appointment, hopefully that will only be a couple of months wait, who knows these days though, everything seems to be four months minimum.

And lastly Tristan has an appointment at the Children’s Hospital to have his sight and hearing checked to rule out any concerns there.  I’m very concerned at how he’s going to react, but I think I need to give my little man more credit, he’s pretty resilient!

And man has Tristan been amazing me lately!  He has really taken to puzzles and constantly asks all day to put them together.  He can put together a 48 piece puzzle in under 10 minutes, it’s incredible to watch!  Of course he favors puzzles that are of cars, trains, busses, but I’ve managed to get him to branch out and do a dinosaur puzzle, very impressive for him.

I am also very proud and happy to say that Tristan and Gabe have been interacting so much better lately.  I will even occasionally catch them playing together!  Tristan has learned to cope much, much better and isn’t so quick to attack when he’s upset.  Obviously he’s still a two year old boy so he’s still prone to the rough and tumble, but wow, what a change.

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And now, to go off topic from Tristan (because really autism isn’t the focus of our lives), there have been major changes around here lately!  My husband just found out this morning that he has been laid off from his job in the Oil & Gas industry effective next week.  It’s not surprising as we’ve known it’s been coming for the past month, but what is surprising is how quickly the change in the industry has come about.  Scary times all around!  We’re trying to remain positive though and we realize that this could perhaps be a blessing afterall.  There’s nothing like living on a little to make you realize your priorities in life.

And in other big, life changing news, we are expecting baby #3, totally unexpected but we are very excited!  Tristan will proudly tell you that he is getting a baby sister even though we have no idea, but he will not waiver from stating the baby is a girl.  I hope he’s right :)

So now that I have all the long boring update out of the way I promise to be much better at updating so you don’t have to read these dull update posts!

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