We've been extremely busy here these days at the Sheidy house. I'm sorry I've been behind on my posts. Between working 4 days a week, traveling the kids back and forth to Hartford to school everyday and Adam working day and night lately, I just haven't had the time to sit and write about what's going on in Sam's life these days. We are honestly exhausted. And...with all this...Adam and I found time to be on the fundraising committee for Jocelyn's Run. Jocelyn is the school nurse at Sam's school who will be running the NYC Marathon on Nov. 2nd. Her purpose for running is to raise autism awareness and to raise money for Sam's school. Jocelyn set a goal of raising $10,000. So, some of us parents and staff members of the school came together to help her out and we held a Silent Auction and Children's Art Sale at Real Art Ways in Hartford last Saturday night. What a huge success since $10,000 was raised that night alone!!! Jocelyn has not only met her goal, but has blown it away by raising almost $24,000!!!!! AMAZING!!! It was a great night and a lot of fun. A big thank you to Sam's Auntie Lisa and Uncle Fran, Uncle Jay and Michelle and Grandma Sue for coming to this event with us. We hope you enjoyed the night as much as we did. And also a big thank you to Sam's cousin Missy and Henry for watching the kids for us. We very much appreciate it. It was great finding Sam in his own bed when we came home, which we haven't seen in a couple of years. I should have taken a picture because it didn't last long!
Sam hasn't been having any accidents in his big boy underwear at all at school. He's staying dry and peeing on the potty all day long! I can't wait to get him going at home. I am so proud of him! His speech also continues to improve daily. His meltdowns at stores however, are very difficult to control with tantrums lasting at least 45 minutes at times after I take him out of the store. I've encountered many stares from people and fight to keep from blasting them. But, I've been controlling myself and biting my tongue and walking out of stores much faster than usual. I wish with all my heart that these times for Sam will get better and people will stop staring because it makes it a lot harder for us parents.
As you will see in the new photos, our little man is getting so big. He finally got a big boy haircut that I just love! I took him to Scissor Kids in Glastonbury and asked his stylist to give him a real style. So, it's now a little spiked in the front and I even get to put pomade in it to spike it up!! He reminds us of the little boy Julienne in the movie "Big Daddy". He's so cute!!!
Sam has a review coming up next Friday at school and I will update on his progress next weekend.
If scroll down and look to the right of this blog, you will see some new photos of us mothers of the children at Sam's school. I am truly blessed to have these wonderful mothers to lean on and for me to be leaned on. The picture that has four of us in it are my closest friends...We are the "Tattoo Mama's of Coltsville". For those of you that didn't know this already, we went to Body Graphics in South Windsor and we each got the Autism Speaks puzzle piece logo tattooed on us. Mine is on my ankle and although it hurt like crazy, I don't regret it one bit!
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