There's something that is often overlooked when it comes to Emmett. He's incredibly intelligent and I mean scary smart. Academically he's way ahead of where he should be and just keeps going. This is something we feel blessed to be able to witness but there is a downside. Emmett is so smart and so articulate that it's incredibly easy to forget that he has a very, very difficult time with expressive language. Majority of the time, he's unable to tell us anything about how he's feeling or what's upsetting him. Tonight is a perfect example of this. Lizze and I are catching up on some shows we recorded and out of nowhere, Emmett appears. We can see he's in distress but the only thing he can say is I don't…

I spent the early part of the morning working on some writing gigs. The second and most fun part of the morning was spent playing Connect Four with my tiniest little minion Emmett. We must have played twenty games. Some were won and many others lost because Emmett is freakishly good with anything related to patterns. He's legitimately hard to beat when it comes to anything like this. Win or lose, we had so much fun playing together. It's really important to me that I go out of my way to connect with my kids. Sometimes it's harder to connect with kids on the Autism Spectrum and that's one of the reasons it's so important to meet them wherever they are. For me today, that meant playing endless games of…