I will never understand....and clearly neither will they. I had a comment posted earlier to my "Please lose the word "retard from you vocabulary" post. The comment read: "It's a word, you only make it good or bad by how you take it. Lighten up." My reply was as follows: "While your entitled to your own opinion, clearly you have never had a child with special needs. When you hear your child, someone you love more then anything else in the world, called a "retard" it's no longer "just a word". I'm VERY aware that "retard" is a word. When used in a non-offensive manner it's just fine. When used to describe a child, it's disgusting, offensive, archaic and ignorant. Maybe I need to lighten up but you need to have a heart." Look,…

You heard that correctly. The Lost and Tired household is going to have to ban the tooth fairy. That sounds a little extreme...right? What if I told you that Gavin is now literally pulling his teeth out. Gavin is basically, picking a tooth and literally wiggling it until he can pull it out. We didn't realize this was going on until this afternoon. Gavin has lost 3 or 4 teeth in the past couple weeks and honestly we didn't think anything of it. However, he came down last night and told me that he "pulled" out another tooth. When he used the word "pull" instead of "lost", it caught my attention. Yesterday was a bad day and Lizze isn't doing good at all so I didn't get a chance to…

Gavin and Elliott wanted to have a sleep over tonight in Elliott's room. I said sure, no problem. I want them to have fun. So they set up shop on the floor and fell asleep watching movies. I love them so much and they look so peaceful on this picture......  

Autism is challenging for us on many levels. However, I want to focus on one area for this post. As many of you know Gavin is chocked full of challenges. He has also been experiencing these bouts of "pain" that no one can seem to explain. The latest of which was earlier this week with the pain in his lower right quadrant. We almost took him to the emergency room but the pain magically disappeared. So we opted instead, to see his pediatrician, again, for an eval and advice. He ran a battery of tests to try and identify an potential problems and suspected his gallbladder may be the problem. Well, we had the final test done very early this morning and it appears that gallstones are NOT the problem. We…

In about 4 hours from the time of the post being published, Gavin will be having a ultrasound. They will be looking for Gall stones, at least I think that's what they are looking for.  Dr. H is concerned that this random pain is Gallbladder related. The ultrasound is non-invasive so Gavin should handle everything pretty well. I would be nice to know what the heck is going on with him. Please say a prayer that everything is ok. - Lost and Tired Please Vote for Lost and Tired (just click the link) and help me spread Autism Awareness. Everyone can Vote once a day :)

One of the things that parents of Autistic children do very often is forget to take care of themselves. So I started a team on Endomondo called Fit4Autism. If you have a smart phone chances are you can download the Endomondo app. Check out my Fit4Autism page at the top for details on how to sign up. The team consists of people from around the world. We have runners, walkers, hikers, bikers, swimmers ect. We all track everything we do both big and small and it adds to the total number of miles the team as a whole has accumulated. We are racking up miles to raise Autism Awareness. It doesn't matter what your contribution it because the whole point is to get in better shape so we can be…

Lost and Tired is finally on the map....Google maps that is. I was sitting in my living room and thought I saw something driving by. I grabbed my camera and went outside. Sure enough it was Google, out taking "Street View" pictures for Google maps and Navigation. Well the "Street View" you'll see when looking up my address will show me standing in the front yard pointing my Nexus S 4G by Google at whoever is looking at it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tk3AqeqfGY[/youtube]     Just thought it was kinda cool to actually see it in real life.

Emmett, apparently LOVES fish. He went from tank to tank to tank. He was just fascinated by them. We might have to get a little 10 gallon setup at some point. I thought I would share a couple of pics from the pet store. - Lost and Tired Please Vote for Lost and Tired (just click the link) and help me spread Autism Awareness. Everyone can Vote once a day :)