Desert Botanical Gardens

Scott had to go to the Desert Botanical Gardens for school, so he decided to make it a family trip. This is not a place you want to take kids to all day. After we saw the butterfly garden the kids were done. Really all it is is Cactus. Weird I know hence Desert Botanical Gardens. We did not stay to long, but here are pictures of the trip. Oh and the colorful things in the pictures are all made out of glass. It is a special thing that they have up right now. There wer so many other glass things. It was really cool. You are not supposed to touch them, but as you can tell in one of the pictures Ashlynn could not resist. The kids favorite part were the butterflys. There were really cool. Lots of really colorful butterflies.

My new hair cut.

As of this week the whole family has gotten their hair cut. So we all have fresh new hair. The kids and Scott just got the regular. But I cut off a good portion. My head feels so much lighter. I love it.

The family pictures are in...

...so if you did not get an email from me here is the information on how to access the family photos. go to www.svbphoto.com then click on galleries, and click on Wilkins. The password is Wilkins705, and it is case sensitive so be sure that you put a capitol W. Feel free to leave a comment and rating on the pictures. I love how they turned out. They look great.

Anyone as concerned as I am?

As I was looking through all of my pictures today. I found that I just have a few to many of these pictures.






So Coleton loves to play with whatever his sister is doing. You know looking up to his big sister thing. But I am afraid that with his 3rd birthday coming up this month he is taking this a little to far. What do you think?

mom to mom

So I have been really frustrated lately with my daughter Ashlynn. As you may or may not know she is autistic. We have been potty training her since she was 18 months old. We have been going through a constant roller coaster of thinking she has graduated, and is a big girl now, and then three weeks later she is back to having an accident everyday. The most frustrating thing is that she will have #2 accidents only, for a few weeks, and then she will only have #1 accidents for a few weeks, and then some weeks she will have both. And so on. I am getting to the point that I don't know what to do. I have taken her to the doctor. He just tells me she will get it. Then I ask other moms they don't know what to tell me cause she is special. I just have run out of energy. I am trying not to compare her, but she is 4 already, and if you do the math on that this has gone on way to long. I am worried they wont take her in kindergarten because she is not potty trained. Oh what to do. If you have any advice, any books I can read anything I can do please let me know.

Coleton on the other hand is totally potty trained so just as I was beginning to think it was me as a mom, I stand corrected, my boy showed me that I can do it. Congrats Coleton. So I know I can do it I just am getting discouraged with her.

HELP!!!