this is where we are goin'

Brain Balance here we come! We have gone 2 days and she loves it! Now if we can catch that right brain up with the left brain and then teach them how to communicate with each other she will be set! That it!

If you are not familiar with right brain left brain and how they work together get the book Disconnected Kid by Robert Melillo. I am getting ready to read it myself and it is the first time I feel like... "oh, that makes sense!"

Now in the world of non-typical kids you will hear all the time... there is not enough studies to prove this works, there is not enough research that can prove this means this, there is not enough placebo based studies to show........ well until you can tell me what causes Autism and how it can be treated even after your 9,000,000 studies let me do whatever I feel I need to do to get Maddux where I think she can be!

Progress notes to come as she works thru this 12weeks process.

where will we be going?

Her she is... a wheat free third grader who can now look at the camera and smile with a purpose. How do you "teach" a person to smile? I never did other than to say, "Show me your teeth" and the outcome of that is not very pretty. She now looks at me, turns her head to the side just a little and looks into the camera with a purpose of "I am going to make this one a cute one" I had some time with her in Feb. to shoot with my heart and this is what I got. It comes from a place only parents who have kids with special needs can understand. How you wish you could take out of her what was "wrong" and fix it. But then who would Maddux be? When I take pictures of families I try my best to pull their love for their kids out of their hearts and plaster it all over my camera lens. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it does not. But when it does it can make the heart of anyone sing. It is a moment, it is a feeling, it is a second in time when your heart melts and you take your love and show it to everyone. It is a picture that can make a perfect stranger cry. You do not have to know someone to feel touched by their feelings of love for each other. That is what makes love so beautiful.

Take a moment. Step out of your world of lunches, work, papers and dirty faces to clean and get to the root of why you live. It is your kids. It is your family. One moment can change it so embrace what you have now and make your heart sing.

Next time.... we will be balancing brain hemispheres!!!! Stay tuned!!!!

our new journey.

Well my friends it has been a while. A while of playing, a while of praying and a while of discovering. While I do own my own business I tend to loose site of our past with Maddux. All I do is pop in a video of her about 3 years ago and it all comes rushing back to me. Things about how I need to stop doing what I am doing for others and do it for us. Capture MY memories. So I did.

I did a whole series of M and C on the bed playing. Laughing. Tickling. Just being. Since my last post M has started 2nd grade and is thriving. We tackle the word problems from the Devil's home and continue. I even have issues with them. Hence why M does not stand

a chance! I have also started all of us on a gluten free diet.

I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease about a month and a half ago. So I started them on it. M bc I really wanted to see what this diet would do for her. And C, well bc it is too hard to have one on it and not the other. They are FINE! They only miss chocolate donuts but nothing a bowl of trix cant handle.

C's poop is back to normal from having constipation and M has a sense of humor like I have never seen before. She still lacks the ability to catch our sarcasm but she throws some things out that I never knew she knew. It is working. Do not mix this with GFCF. We are not on CF but gluten free is hard enough. I just wanted to catch you all up on her and I promise to be more diligent at posts. It is hard with a family, a business and 2 blogs but I will try!

Until next time!~

HUGS!

she's her BFF

How happy am I that Ms. M is in Maddux's life. She follows Maddux around and does everything she does and vice versa. They are such a soul-warming duo that I am so happy to drop her off at school everyday bc I know Ms. M will be there. Everyone is put in our life for a reason and Ms. M is there solely for Maddux. She brighten hers day and makes her giggle her true giggle! Thank you M. for showing me Maddux's true laugh, her true heart and for being her true friend!!!

world.... meet my maddux

This is Maddux sharing her first published writings in second grade. Can you just not look in her eyes and tell she is going to be someone special one day?

reaching her utmost potential

she did it again...

our girl finished first grade!!!!!!! and she not only finished it she rocked it! I am a little late on her blogging so she has already started 2nd but I am trying to catch up! She did smashing this year. Made some friends and some enemies.... yes I said enemies in first grade. But they are good for her to learn that not all people love Maddux! Crazy I know! Who doesn't love Maddux! Next year is sure to be tough but she has already shown such great improvement.

We have added speech after school and it has already shown us that she really does know more than we think. It is just a matter of how to ask. That is always the question.... how can i say this so she will understand. but she is doing so well.

we have lowered her seizure meds to 2 MLs BID ( that means twice a day ) and no thoughts now on taking her off. I am not mentally ready for that. She is doing so well on her 2ml and i feel like i need that extra boost of medicine comfort. All the prayers in the world sometimes do not feel as comfortable as a dose of medicine. it is true. i hate to admit it. but we all know we feel that way.

thanks for following her this year. and second grade is sure to bring more miracles!

Field day.

This has got to be may favorite image of maddux in school! It really shows how I feel her year has gone. I will go more  into it when I post her end of the year in a few weeks!!!!

who can have eye brows like this and still be cute??????? Maddux can!

The sock hop.

Okay I am super behind on my posts but my daughter is autistic...give me a break! :)

her un-natural obsession with the chick-fil-a cow!

they always take care of her!

When it all started...

not for Maddux but for me. Maddux was at her worst time here but loved to be at the beach.  I got this shot with my small point and shoot camera when she was 2 and this is where my madness for photography started. I thought I had lost the digital negative to this one, but I am sooo glad I found it! Happy dance! Enjoy our angel!