Where it begins...

This blog is to help me through the good days and the bad. Cayden was born a perfect little baby on March 29, 2009. He is our second child, and our first son. He was developing normally, maybe a little slower than our oldest, but everyone assured me that boys were slower than girls. Around a year old he was saying mama, dada, and baa for ball. Around 18 months he stopped talking and I noticed little quirky things about him that if I didn't put them all together they didn't seem out of place. After a few months of worrying, we decided to get him into speech therapy. A few months into that with little progress, I was talking with my mom one day, and the word Autism just came to me. I didn't even really know what that was, but decided to look into it. the odd thing was that I felt totally comfortable with that, and I just KNEW that is what my baby had. In June 2011, we met with a doctor, and Cayden was diagnosed with Autism. It has been a rough road, and many tears have been shed all around. I hope this blog can be an outlet for me, and also a help to others who may be going through a similar situation. Cayden is an awesome, extremely hard, loved little boy.