Confusion and comprehension....

It's been awhile since my last post... and I won't say 'I'm sorry' , well cause I'm not ;)! It's been a tad crazy here (when is it not!). Drew has had a 'meds' adjustment and Cole, well Cole got another pimple(wtf is going ON??)!! The meds adjustment was a bit rough at first but things seem to be leveling out. YAY!! But I am happy to report I 'think' I am seeing good things.. no wait, I know!! (but is it the meds or maturity?) Well whatever, I'll take it!
We had a freak snow storm in OCTOBER!! The 29th to be exact and because the leaves have yet to fall off all the trees(wtf is THAT about??) the snow made the branches sooo heavy that limbs fell everywhere knocking out power.

We didn't lose power right away, like some of our dearest friends did :) or did we lose it for DAYS.. we lost power for 'a day' and when I say 's day' I mean during the DAY... from about 10:45am Sunday morning till about 6:15pm Sunday evening.. But those 7 hours were.........ENLIGHTENING!! Cole understood right away what no power would mean.. no lights, no tv, no INTERNET!!! Drew had a bit tougher time with the concept :( He cried at first.. flicking the light switches on and off... pressing the ON button on the computer... and slowly....very slowly began to understand that 'no power' meant no doing the thing that keep him entertained most days... So instead we built a marble maze, painted, did a puzzle, oh and hand puppets by candle light!!

And just as is started to get dark...and cold...and just when I thought we would at the very least go through the night without power, the lights came ON!!!

Think they were happy?? But anyway all this snow and downed branches and power outages changed EVERYTHING...Halloween....CANCELED!! (or should I say postponed), school....CANCELED for 2 days!! The school Halloween parade and party..postponed... All this "change" confused Drew... "wait no Halloween on Oct. 31st??!!!" Nope, now we'll do that on Friday Nov. 4th!! Along with your school parade and party... confusing for a child with autism to say the least!! Autism can cause very concrete thinking.. black and white.. very little gray... Drew can be a VERY concrete thinker BUT lately he has been much better able to handle the... abstract ;)... So although there was a tad bit of protest and confusion on Monday Oct. 31st both boys ROCKED and embraced our new date!

 Oh and it just soooo like the Universe to throw in a little 'end of daylight savings time' but guess what?? We ROCKED that too!! 
So I don't really care what is bringing on this new level of comprehension... I'm am THRILLED and really truly was never sure if we would get here but here we are!! I, however am still as 'confused' as ever... see somethings remain the same ;).. Peace and love to all :)