All in all, we are doing great!

Liam, who is turning 5 years old in August, has made so much progress! It's unbelievable to think that he would get out of the bathtub and grab his towel all by himself then proceed to pick out his own PJ's and dress himself, leaving his socks off while he ate dinner, and then went to bed forgetting to put them on...is this for real? The behavior binder is proving itself time and time again to help with his anxiety, OCD, and behaviors. I never thought that his disagreements would only last seconds and not hours. I'm so excited how far we keep climbing but I'm also nervous about all the changes we are about to face. Having to PCS (Permanent Change of Station- army lingo) to a whole new world in El Paso, TX makes me so anxious that I have been preparing with social stories and talking about our new house and his new bedroom with a new teacher in his new school. Everything will be a clean slate and it will be all new territory for us as a family. His little sister Gwyn is 2 years old and is a sassy carefree little girl who is very adaptable. Liam is not so adaptable and he requires explanation about everything all the time and needs to talk about every detail of a situation. We recently prepped him (for a month) to go see The Lorax in a movie theater, which was his very first time ever going to a theater to see a movie, and it went off without a hitch. I couldn't have been more happy with how he handled the whole thing, the previews (which were for an older crowd in my opinion) the seat, which kept closing up on him because he's so little and light and the movie was a new Lorax not the old Lorax which he has seen and knows about. All in all he was very adaptable and appreciated the movie, even though as we are leaving he is talking about how I didn't fix his broken car at home yet. I'm excited because I can see some normal family events in our future and I hope we don't regress with our big move across country. No matter what happens I know we will get through these times and I'm prepared so I know we will never be in the situation we were 2 years ago. This gives me hope!