Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving day with Jay's family in Dallas, where unfortunately I didn't get many pictures. I did get this one of Jay and his cousin, Casey.

Casey has three kids and Andrew loved his oldest, Katherine. He kept calling her "hey girl" and followed her everywhere! On Friday we headed to Tyler to see my family. Andrew and Alyson had a blast playing together!! I'm so glad that he's starting to enjoy his cousins!

The picture below is my cousin's little girl...isn't she a cutie!
We really had a great time seeing family and now we're getting ready to head back to school tomorrow. Getting to sleep late this past week has been wonderful, but Andrew is ready to get back into his routine. He's asked for Ms. Becky (his teacher) every day this week! On that note, he's doing really well in school. We had a meeting a couple of weeks ago where they confirmed that Andrew is autistic...moderate is what they labeled him. They said that academically he's doing great. They also said that he's got great receptive language and a really good vocabulary. They said that he does really well one on one, but when they try to do group activities, he gets distracted. They feel that by the fall he will be in a mainstream pre-k classroom! This was really great news! Please continue to pray for us. We are really thrilled with Andrew's progress, but we want to know that we are doing everything possible to help him recover from this. He will always be autistic, but seeing how far he's come in so little time gives us hope that he can lead a "normal" life.