In the mirror this morning, I spotted three grey hairs. Well, actually they are white and as my sister puts it ‘can be seen across the room’. I can’t deny that the last 6 months have been stressful, though the last 2 and a bit have been better since I’ve been on leave from ‘work’. We still have our whole lives to be stressed – I think I’ll be a silver fox before we know it.

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We had our first appointment with our neurologist and a follow up appointment with our paediatrician today. Waiting times aside (hello, 4 hourssss), they both reminded us to look into Rett Syndrome because it’s still not off the table. We won’t know the test results for months yet, so excuse me if there is more emo posts here on the blog.

The dr also threw in the term ‘severe’ to describe Jovie’s Autism and I didn’t flinch. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad, but I guess when you live it, any term you use to describe a situation doesn’t matter.

Jovie’s doing this new thing where screaming, out of happiness in the highest pitch known to man, is her release. It started before bed times, and then progressed to wherever we took her – my favourite was the toy store where she did her usual ‘clearing off all counters’ (bye bye slinkies) and then screamed while I paid for some halloween lanterns. I’m learning really quick to find all exits and to clear a good 3 feet buffer zone around Jovie.

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Trying to remind Jasper to use his manners, Uncle Allan asks him ‘What’s the magic word?’.

My sweet Jasper replies ….

‘Abracadabra!’

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I’ve been getting back into painting and screenprinting lately. It’s been a welcome distraction for both Jasper and I and the smell of the paint brings me back to my high school art rooms.

I never was good at painting, but some prints & things that I made the other day make me happy 🙂