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our little sir dantes is now three and a half years old. he is sooo cute and he is a bright little boy. he doesn’t seem to miss a thing. he is still screaming…sigh…but his father brought up an interesting fact about that this evening. when he is screaming we know where he is and what he is up to. it is when he is quiet that we have to worry.

Follow up:

as i said, sir dantes doesn’t miss a thing. he is always watching and observing. he knows where things are and he wants to explore everything. this is starting to cause some serious problems around the house. he is into everything! today he scaled some shelves that are about six feet tall to reach the thomas the tank engine boxes that were stored at the top! things came crashing down and luckily he was not hurt. however, the stack of old high school annuals suffered some damage. a few days ago he stuffed a wash cloth down the toilet and flushed it. he’s torn up a phone, thrown several different objects down the vents, we can’t find the top to the toothpaste…..the list goes on.

he is silent and fast!

now, you may that this is typical behavior for a three year old. well, yes i have to agree. but, a typical three year old understands the word “no” after a couple of times or a time out. with sir dantes it is over and over and over and over and over…all night long. with ms. maxie; we pick up her toys at the end of the night and she goes to bed. the toys don’t come back out until the morning. not so with sir dantes. i can have him help me pick up and throughout the night his bedroom is a complete disaster. i can’t even see the floor! and things are taken apart to the point that they can not be used anymore. at times, he just throws things around in the middle of a temper tantrum. sigh…

a few weeks ago his father had to hang a door with a lock to keep sir dantes out of the office and our bedroom. otherwise, sir dantes would run back there and start opening up our drawers and throwing stuff all over the floor or run into our bathroom and and get into our hygiene products. or, he would start playing with the main computer and then our magic jack phones wouldn’t work. after scaling the shelves in his closet today his father had to screw the closet door shut. this really upsets me because i don’t like closed doors.

it has gotten to the point that in order for us to be able to get daily tasks done he has to be in his room with the gate shut. i also hate this. i want him to be able to be out and about. when i come home from work i let him run around while i take care of some small task but throughout the evening i have to shut the gate with him in his room. one day soon he will figure how to get over the gate. this scares me to death. there is no telling what he could get into late at night when we are trying to sleep.

a friend of mine, who also has an autistic son told me that had to buy two gates and stack them in the door frame. their son still occasionally gets out at night and goes to the neighbors house.

so anyway, we are off to home depot over the weekend to buy locks!