Its been crazy since Princess and Monster came back to live with us. Monkey Man gets 26 hours of ABA therapy a week and an hour of speech, Itty Bitty gets an hour of occupational therapy a week, and Monster gets an hour of speech and an hour of occupational therapy every week. That's a busy schedule. Add in the issues that the children came with (Princess has issues with trying to be the parent and control the other children, and Monster likes to throw anything and everything) but it is getting better.
We went to an autism meetup group tonight, that is sponsered by my tribe (we are Native American). It was great. Needless to say that only me and another girl showed up but it was the first meeting and what did you expect. I felt so bad for the other girl, her son was diagnosed and that was it. They didn't even point her in the direction to get her son some help. I told her of all the available resources in our wonderful state and hopefully she can start getting some help for her son soon. Poor girl has been trying to do everything on her own and she is pregnant with her second child.
The kids had a blast playing with the workers who kept them busy while we were having our meeting. They each got a stuffed toy from Toy Story. I can't wait until next month when they have another meeting, though I do hope more people show up.
I think it is safe to say that things are finally settling down and the children are getting used to living with each other. Somedays are hard but considering they are still all so young (5,4,2 and 1) things are going really well.
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