Our memorial day weekend

It seemed as if most of my friends were going camping or doing other fun things. At first I was a little jealous because I like camping and the sun too, but it turned out to be a really great weekend- just the family at home. When you are a one income family and have a special needs kid, staying home is a good thing.

The kids had Friday and Monday off. Thursday night I did some weeding and my hubby cut the grass. Got some work out of the way so we could play. Friday was a total veg day. It was awesome. The only thing we did was go rent "Despicable Me" and "Justin Bieber". Friday after finishing off the meatloaf and chicken casserole I'd made earlier in the week we had family movie night. We watched 'Despicable Me', me and Bubs had Bubba popcorn and Candace had reg popcorn (which tastes really gross now that I've been eating Bubba's with him).

Saturday we went down to my parents and picked up their picnic table to bring up to our house. Its so awesome, my uncle built it for them and its so big. Camden has already taken it over with his garbage trains. Candace's friend Aolani came over to spend the night. I love her. She is the nicest little girl. Us girls watched Justin Bieber, played wheel of fortune, and I straightened Aolani's hair.

Sunday was a little rough. We barely made it to church. Camden wanted to finish watching his show and Carter couldn't decide if he wanted to stay home or come with me and Bubs. Finally after 20 minutes of their nonsense I came downstairs to just listen to the service online. Well, our stoooopid laptop wouldn't start. So I left for church while Carter was outside and Camden came running out behind me. We were only 30 minutes late. So glad I made it though, our pastor is amazing and was speaking about the end times and all the nonsense that Camping guy talked about. So after service I go get Bubs from his class and tell him lets go. Well, he freaked out and hid under a table and started having a mini freak out. I told him he needed to get up and walk or I would be carrying him out to the car. He walked. Once we were in the car and he was done telling me I'm stupid and he wanted to stay at church longer we talked about why its not okay to do that. And in our conversation I asked what would be a better way to leave. We decided that when I pick him up from now on I will let him know I'm there and we are going to leave in2 or 3 minutes. Transitions are so hard for him. We'll see if that works next week I guess. Aolani went home about 1:30 and at 2 I took Candace to her other friends house for a sleepover. That night me and my boys ate dinner outside on the deck and then watched Despicable Me again, but this time Carter watched it too. He sat still for the first 45 minutes! Got fidgety and then sat still again. Yay! Its exciting that he will be able to join us for the family night movies soon.

Monday all 5 of us went down to Edmonds beach. Candace got a bunch of pretty shells, Carter had a great time throwing rocks in the water- all the boys did actually, lol, and Camden got himself soaked so we had to sit down for a little while since he broke the rules (don't get your clothes wet).  We had a good time there and then went home and I took the big kids to their new schools to play on the playground before we went over the Joey's parents for dinner and to see Papa Larry, he'd just gotten back from Texas. Things were going pretty well over there until they weren't. Its amazing how quickly that happens. One minute the boys are playing just fine, the next Carter is crying because Camden just punched him in the face. Poor kid. He is gonna be so tough. His cheek was immediately red and you could see the purple where the bruise would be (I'm writing this Tuesday, and it is purple now). It makes me so angry and so sad all at the same time. I would love it if it was some other kid who was hurting my baby, that would be a very easy fix. This is not. And its not like Camden plans to hurt his brother (I hope). I feel so bad for both of them actually. My heart aches for Carter because he shouldn't grow up getting hit by his big brother, he is gonna have some major anger issues I'm sure. And it really breaks my heart that Camden doesn't seem to care that he hurts his brother. It actually really really scares me that he does this and doesn't care because he is so much bigger and stronger than Carter and I would hate myself if he did something more harmful. Like broken body parts or even worse. Camden is so so sweet and then is such a huge stinker, the difference is quite huge and there doesn't seem to be much of a middle. They have homes up here by us for kids with autism that can't live at home for different reasons. I know he is not a candidate for that place, nor would I want him to live anywhere else, but it scares me to think that he could really truly hurt his brother and may need to live somewhere else. That's a huge fear of mine. Okay, this turned into a mini Bubba blog,  just like our life. He kinda takes over, lol. So anyways. We calmed them both down and left. Its so hard leaving the house sometimes. The saying "There's no place like home" really is true!


After we had all the kids in bed Joey and I were just talking and decided we both had a great weekend, despite the Bubba  issues, without going anywhere, or doing anything fancy. Loving life!!









 Me and my Bubbys goofing around. I love my sweet boy :)

Special Olympics & diabetes

Today at Camden's school they had Young Athletes Day. Its when people from Special Olympics visit the school and do an athletic program for the kids as a way to introduce them to the special Olympics. Bubba was so excited this morning to go "play sports", it was also the first time in a looong time I didn't have to fight him to get ready for school. I wish they did this every day!  He did great. I think at 8 or 9 is when kids can start participating in SO, and I think he will really enjoy that too when the time comes.  I signed us up for the Autism Walk in September. Our team name is "Bubba and Friends", just like Thomas and Friends. Ha ha. Our shirts are gonna be sooo cute!

After the thing at Bubbas school I went to lunch with my mom (and Candace, Carter and Harlow) and she told me my dad has diabetes. It really makes me sad. I know my dad eats a bunch of junk, but he is healthy! He exercises, plays golf, is usually outside cutting the grass or doing something. I can't believe it. Candace started crying. I don't want anything bad to ever happen to my dad, he's not a sick person. I just don't get it. I always thought that diabetes was more of an overweight thing. And he is definately not. It just makes me very sad. And kinda mad too, but I'm not sure why. Well, yes I do know why but I aint saying that outloud.