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I'm still here. Just taking a slight blogging break. We have a lot of things going on right now, so I haven't had much time to sit and type.

I promise to do some updates. Lots of first for Nandi... first day of school, first birthday as part of a family, first Halloween.. lots of cool things.

And lots of not so cool things, too. Eli is having a neuro-psych evaluation in two weeks. His clinical psychologist/behavioral therapist thinks he might be somewhere on the autism spectrum...

What????

Never in a million years would I have thought that, but when you put it down on paper it certainly screams "Asperger's". And now we're paying for attention to it and it's like, "Wow. Wow!"

There are a lot of things we never noticed.

Anyway, that was a bit of a blow - although it doesn't change anything. He's still the same kid. It's just....hmmmmmmmmm.... never saw that one coming. So he's undergoing a neuro-psych evaluation in a few weeks. Honestly, I think it'll present more of a PDD-NOS with anxiety and sensory issues. He definitely has A LOT of autism spectrum symptoms (lining things up, highly intelligent but learning delayed, anxiety, issues in new situations, stimming, fear of change, frequent meltdowns, motor delays, obsessing over one topic, always changing the subject or course of play back to his topic of interest, not really playing with kids, but parallel playing)...but he's very social. Yeah, there is a huge mix of social awkwardness and social immaturity, but... I don't know. My experience with autism is solely based on Noah, so high-functioning autism or Asperger's... I don't know a thing about it.

So, I'm just taking a bit of a break to absorb everything.

That's it. I'll be back with pics of Nandi's Week of Firsts. And, usually when I say that I'm taking a blogging break, it means that I end up posting everyday for a month.

Oh, I'm a woman of contradictions.