Halloween in Riverside

Cameron and Connor really enjoyed their first "real" Halloween in the burbs. It was a gorgeous day. Cameron protested putting his costume on, but once we got him outside and he made his first trick or treat stop he was good to go with a sucker in his mouth.

Believe it or not he actually kind of understood the concept of trick or treating. At one house he even discarded his beloved dog at the footsteps to climb up the steps to get the goodies. It was hilarious, it was as if he said "forget the dog I want the sweets!"

If you can't tell by the photos Cameron went as his favorite stinky, much loved dog - "neigh neigh" as he calls him. Why he calls this dog what you'd think he would call a horse we have no idea? But that's his name.
Connor went as a "pea in a pod" and fell asleep on the trick or treat trail :)

We capped the weekend off with a haircut for Cameron - don't worry it's not too short, but we were bordering on mullet status in the back.
Saturday evening Connor gave us a bit of a scare, his body temp was very low 95.4 and he had been extremely irritable all day, not sleeping etc. The pediatrician sent us to the ER, he's totally fine. I'm just going to chalk it up to him wanting to check out Children's for himself instead of always hearing about it...

Other than not really liking to sleep during the day Connor is a sweet little guy, he has a belly laugh that is so contagious!

In other news we are going through some intense discussions with the therapy team about various things. Cameron's speech delay is our main focus right now, and trying to find out if he has something called Speech Apraxia. And then there's some other more involved stuff about him being "disorganized" inside, it's really hard to explain so I'm not going to get into it. We've got to make the most of these last 6 months with Early Intervention, and at the same time prepare for the transition process. Yet another thing I'm not going to get into right now.

As for the walking Cameron is doing really well, I can't say it enough, him walking has changed my life so much and is truly something I cherish every single day - to see him walk on his own is one of the most amazing things that has happened to us.

There are huge feelings with those small steps he takes.