Christmas was great, I got bunches of toys again. I had so many toys that mommy emptied a big huge box worth to take to Good Will and it still looks like she hasn't touched a thing. I love being spoiled!

I have been sick for over three weeks now. I got the flu first, then a cold, and then an ear infection!! Tis the season, I always get them this time of year. I also get real grouchy, I started kicking and slapping and boy that made mommy mad --I even gave her a bruised lip --but what else can I do to tell them what is wrong? Mommy says shes losing her religion... I didn't know she had any left to lose! I just like pushing her buttons, its what I am here for.

Enough for now, I'll try to keep you all updating a little better in the future, but you guys know we're busy!

Mommy has kept me off of milk but we haven't perfected the wheat free diet yet ...someday. I have been taking my DMG, B-6 w/ Magnesium and now MSM. Mommy says my attention is much better and now I even play with my toys how they are supposed to be played, something autistic kids have a problem with. I am really into watching my Veggie Tale videos. Can't get enough of them, if you've never seen them you must get your hands on a copy --very funny. Mommy even likes them, and they are bible stories (so you know they must be really really funny).

last month Misty and Tootie and Matt and Jacob came to visit. Be sure to check out my newest pictures to see how everyone is looking these days! Photo Album. Also mommy has been talking about this Autism Awareness rally in Washington DC next April 8th. Go and check out there Webpage, there is even a picture of me on it! ARK Autism Resource Konnection, Inc. If that site doesn't work, keep checking back.

We also moved. Not far from Grandma, just two houses down. I don't like it there, my bed room isn't there and that is where I want to sleep. Maybe someday I will like it, but for now I just have to cry and cry until mommy gets the hint and takes me back to Grandmas! She is catching on.

I had another one of those meetings where a bunch of people come to the house and talk about me and make me do "drills". They drive me crazy, especially that Bill guy. He is mean. :) Mommy thinks I am doing better with my communication, but I am still not talking. She is also excited to try this diet on me, but she can't get any bread to turn out yet, the other day she was really frustrated, it was funny. They have me off of milk, I can only drink soy formula, it is pretty good. Soon they won't let me eat any wheat. Boy, I don't know about that. Mommy has some vitamins and other stuff coming that she wants me to take, good luck mommy, ha! To read more about that diet check out GFCF Diet. There is some really neat stuff there mommy says.

More therapy has started around here. Now they want me to work for my gummy bears. Who do they think they are, anyhow! Grandpa put a fence around the yard. Mommy says we can relax now. They don't have to worry about me running to the road. Don't they know I like the road??? There is a new swing set inside the fence though --I guess it is a trade off...

Mommy is having us move too. It isn't far it is just two houses down from Grandma and Grampa's, I wonder what the point is. Mommy says she needs space. We'll still be close enough to play in the yard and I won't have to change any of my therapies around. She is also starting a new job. I guess she is gonna be all busy again.

Also they said I don't qualify for the secretin test, I am too young. But the nurse told Mommy that if this test shows that secretin does help they will do another test to see what the dose should be and how often kids should get the shot. She said I would be able to do that test. All these test for such a little kids.

A couple weeks ago we went to Louisiana. Mommy tells me I was born there, I liked it very much. I got to see my friend Matt and his new little brother Jacob... I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in over two years. Mommy is working on putting up the pictures, I will let you know when she does.

Right now I have mommy all confused because I loved taking a bath and a shower in the hotel bathrooms but I do not like to take them at home. Actually, I keep going back and forth and I can not decided if I like it or not. I had a lot of fun swimming in the hotel pool and I really loved the hottub! Mommy is trying to get that written into my therapy plan, good luck mommy.

She has also got herself involved with this Autism Awareness Rally that is happening in Washington DC on April 8, 2000. All kinds of fun people are going to be there, and smart doctors too who are gonna talk and tell you more about Autism. Mommy is keeping herself busy!! She says she is gonna take all of the glutten and casein out of my diet, anybody know what that means? She started giving me something called Efalex and she says there are more vitamins to come.

She is also changing around my delevopmental delay website. Soon you will be able to read about how I stopped talking, what mommy is doing now with all my therapies (Something called ABA is being started now, anyone know what that is like? I wonder if those are they same people who made my cry the other day...), and how I am progressing. Well that is all for now, I'll let you know when mommy puts up the vacation pictures.

Mommy said we should be hearing soon from these doctors if I am gonna be in their study. She says if not she is about to start all these vitamins and drops and stuff, I tell her good luck trying to sneak all those vitamins in on me. I hate taking all these pills and stuff, yuck. She wants to change my diet too, she says all the foods that I eat are foods that I am allergic too and that is making my autism worse. She thinks if she changes my diet I might start talking, we'll see mom. All this stuff has to wait though, if we do this study we aren't allowed to alter my therapy or diet. (Good cause I quite enjoy my PB & J's!) I find this funny cause mommy used to laugh when she heard the words "vitamins" "herbals" and "holistic/alternative medicine" but she is coming around.

School's almost out for mommy for the summer, Good! She is tired of school, she needs a break so she can make it through the next two years. We are supposed to go visit our friends in Louisiana --Aunt Misty and Matt, and NOW Jacob!!! My uncle Mike is not gonna be there, Mommy says he is being a police man over in Korea, don't they have there own police? I hope Matt doesn't make me cry so much this time :)

I will miss my girlfriend though. Her name is Kaitlin and she is in my class. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. See, I am not one for looking at other kids, in fact I hate it when they come near me, I usually push at them or try to get away from them, but then I saw Kaitlin. I went right over to her and hugged her and tried to kiss her --she ran away. But I know she's playing hard to get.

Mommy has been talking to a doctor in Philadelphia about something called secretin. I am not sure what it is and mommy says no one is really sure how it helps yet, but they are working on it. She says it might make me better, I didn't know there was anything wrong with me! But she is all excited because..well I think she said something like there was only this secretin stuff from pigs and it might do bad things instead of good. I don't want to turn into a pig!

Mommy said I wouldn't turn into a pig, but maybe worse! What could be worse? Well this doctor said things are going slow with the study because they are waiting on a company that is making a ...and I hope I get these big words right... synthetic human secretin. I do not think mommy read anything after that, she was too excited.

Well what was so funny was grandma and mommy turned off my music and wanted me to make that little sign to get them to turn my music back on. But they looked so funny doing it over and over again and saying "do more Gavin." that I couldn't stop laughing. And of course, I haven't done it since. When are they gonna learn that once I figure something out, I see no point in doing it again and again!

So, finally, I puckered up and gave her one. She was so excited, clapping and everything. She kept making me do it over and over...finally I got bored with it, she called my grandma into the room and tried to show her what I can do. But like I said, I was bored with it. So I wouldn't do it again. I gotta keep them guessing!

Mommy noticed that I started crying when they were opening all those toys, so they slowed down and did one and then others later. I wasn't sure if I liked all this stuff but now I decided I do.