It's been a while since we've had time to update the blog since our last adventure which was our trip to florida in november last year. So here's some catching up of what's been going on since then...

Thursday was Arianna's last day as a second grader. I'm SO proud of how much she's grown and learned this past school year. Next year in 3rd grade she will be independantly in her general education classroom about 90% of her day - this is g...reat for her and she's made some great little friends who she will get to spend time with over summer break. If you would've asked me even 2 years ago if I thought she would have this much improvement and independance, I'd think you were crazy! But to actually SEE all that she is able to do on her own now makes me crazy with happy tears for her. I love you Arianna Rose! ♥

Last month we also got to spend an entire day at a carnival that was in town. Last year Arianna wasn't too thrilled with carnival rides but this year - WOW did she have a blast! After about 5 or 6 hours of roller coaster, ferris wheel, spinning and twirling rides, the hang-glider ride and many others I was tired out! Arianna fell asleep in about 5 minutes that night after all this excitement. She is so much fun to be with and really enjoys all the events she gets to experience this past year.

 

 

 

Arianna got to have a fun Hello Kitty birthday party for her 8th birthday this year. She really enjoyed having her friends over to play with her and celebrate with us all.

 

 

learning how to do the hoola hoop - a gift from our favorite Miss Susan

We look forward to lots of fun activities through the summer vacation. Arianna will be at summer daycare camp and gets to go on allot of field trips to different places like the zoo, cj barrymores for putt putt golfing, a karate place, parks and more.

In July we'll be getting in 4 sessions of hyperbaric while I'm off work week of the 4th of July. Hoping for a little more healing while we can get some visits in.

Enjoy your summer everyone!!

 

Florida was a great time!

Florida was nice, warm and mostly sunny for us. We visited Disney for a day as well as Sea World. Got to swim in the pool every other day and just enjoyed family time - - was very nice!

The sunday after we got home, Arianna had her Santa Claus brunch which she enjoyed.

Took an extra week off from hbot sessions due to stuffy noses/heads but will be back at it next week. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! :)

Florida...we're on our way soon!

We have 25 hyperbaric sessions done, 5 more this coming week Monday thru Friday and then off to have a week of fun in Florida Saturday & can hardly wait! A day to Disney's Magic Kingdom is on our list (Grandma's wish before she passed away) and another day at Sea World...plus lots of relaxing & family time and seeing the local sites around Kissmmee/Orlando.  Once we're back from vacation we have 10 more sessions to reach our 40.

Arianna's had some good results/improvements so far with her starting Autism score (ATEC) this round was at 20...friday she tested at 13 (the # we ended with after hbot in 2010). Goal is to reach ZERO or come as close as possible to that for 100% healing. Hard to believe she started at a score of 68 June 2010.  She's a math pro, reading comprehension has improved greatly, spelling has always been a strong point with her memory skills and she's much more independant at school.  We've been keeping up with supplements during these sessions as well as keeping her diet clean the majority of the time which is a must. Reading books, practicing school work, playing games requiring her to think/make decisions and one-on-one time replaces television/movies/"vegging out" time spent doing non productive things by herself.

Can't thank The Center for TLC enough for going above & beyond to meet our schedule requirements to get this hyperbaric done for Arianna. Really appreciate my employer who arranged my schedule to allow me the time to take her & the school for being on board with this mission as she misses some of her day for us to get the sessions in each morning. You're all helping a little girl have a chance at a future she deserves and I can never put in words how much that means to us both.