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April Fools! We had cupcakes for dinner...

They were really meatloaf with colored mashed potatoe "frosting"!

And candy sushi for dessert!

April is Autism Awareness Month and

April 2 was World Autism Awareness Day

so our entire family participated in the

Heartspring Autism CARE Walk!

Along with over 2000 other people!

Heartspring is a wonderful center that helps kids who are anywhere

on the autism spectrum... from severe to high functioning.

They have outpatient consultations, therapy, day camps, summer camps,

a school, and a residential facility!

Amelleah and Lincoln enjoyed the morning...

except for the characters...

Lincoln pulled the shade down in front of himself to hide!

When I saw the list of events for the morning I was curious about the

characters... you know like at Disneyland...

I thought "won't the kids be scared?"

Boy was I wrong!!!!!

I think the lack of fear in most autistic kids helped!

Andrew LOVED them ALL and had to go see ALL

of them!!!

Ok, so if you are around my age or part of my family then you

probably remember a cartoon that used to be on MTV

years ago... Beavis & Butthead...

if you have ever seen it, then you know why I think

this pic is absolutely HILARIOUS!!!

If not, sorry... but it's still a cute pic right?!

Sydni was pretty proud of her puzzle piece

tattoo that she got!

So, have you ever wondered what an 8 yr old boy would

take pics of if he got ahold of your camera?

I don't have to wonder anymore!

Deck progress...

after one terrible weather weekend, Miles and our friend Lorrin

made HUGE progress on the deck redo.

Here are the stairs in their new location, with new railing

The stairs used to be all the way to the left, against the house (dumb!)

that is a whole new railing and babyproofed with the lattice!

We still have the lattice on the other 2 sides to finish

as well as making a gate at the top of the stairs!

NO videos???

No more pics of Amelleah???

Well, let me give a brief excuse. She has been EXTREMELY fussy and crying (all the time)...

for a couple weeks now.

The end of last week we started her on another med for the reflux.

And she was fabulous...

for about 2 days...

so instead of taking pics and video I was catching up on housework, laundry, grocery shopping, etc.

On Saturday afternoon she had a reaction to the medicine *BOOOO*

So we are back to fussy and crying... both baby and Mommy!!

We are thickening her formula with cereal, which is helping some with the extreme spitting up but she is still obviously uncomfortable.

As I am typing this (with her sleeping next to me, in.my.bed.) I am waiting for the doctor to call me back!

Pray for us!