Progress being made

The past few days Liam has been pretty good. He still has shown the tendency to have small fits, but they have not been as bad as in previous weeks. Liam still is not on his full dosage, and won’t be for a couple weeks. Jill has noticed that after school Liam is much happier and talkative about his day. He has not had any bad fits when they have gotten home.

Wednesday Liam’s teacher called to talk with Jill. She said Liam has been doing very well so far. One thing she has really noticed is that Liam is trying hard to make friends in class. It’s kind of funny as Jill and I have noticed that in Liam as well. It is great to see it is something he has been doing on his own. What we have seen at home is when dinner is over, Liam wants to go out and play with his friends, Ruthie, Kelly, and Shannon. Liam will go play with them wherever they are. On a couple occasions Liam has come over with them and said “Mommy, my friends are here to play”. When he has come home from where he was playing he comes in, takes his shoes off, and tells us about what he did with “his friends”. It is really great to see Liam progressing this way socially. As he gets older we hope he continues to make friends. Liam not having any friends because of his autism is something we worry about. Liam’s teacher did mention she has noticed that when they do their work in class Liam seems to be showing signs of anxiety. She has seen him picking at his gums again and just a very worried look on his face. Liam will also ask for his blanket at times during class. She also noticed that Liam’s backpack is quite full of movies and his blanket and not leaving room for his papers to bring home. Liam’s routine each day is the same before he leaves. He has to get his coat on, check his backpack for his movies, and his blanket. Once all these are in it’s time to go. Jill has tried to get him to leave his movies home or his blanket and he gets very upset. His teacher suggested he get a larger backpack so he can bring his papers home. We will have to look for one as Jill agreed his backpack is quite full.

Each day this week Liam must have asked me and Jill over a hundred times if the circus is tomorrow. I managed to get tickets for the circus from work. We are going to take all 4 boys this year. Luckily we got loge tickets. This at least gives the boys somewhere to move around of course, some good food to eat! Last year we took Liam just to see how he would do. Liam surprised the hell out of us by having the time of his life. Down at the circus ring before the show, clowns, jugglers, acrobats, and animals would be out doing performances. Kids got to interact with the clowns. This was a recipe for disaster with Liam. He did so well, The biggest moment came when some clowns started dancing and formed a train of kids around the ring. Liam asked us if he could go. Jill and I were stunned and said, sure. To our amazement Liam was out there with other kids he did not know and was smiling and having a good time. I got quite choked up over it and looked back at Jill and found her crying. This was the first time we ever saw Liam participate in something as social and in an environment of loud music, noise, and clowns. We’ll see how he does this Friday.
Thursday is Liam’s swimming day. He is going to have some time to swim with Addy. Liam is quite excited about it. We’ll see how it all goes Thursday, stay tuned!