Five more things about Mikey:

  1. Mikey doesn’t like the stairs at home. He will not go up more than four or five steps on our stairs. When I took him to Molloy College, he had no problem going up and down the stairs but at home it is totally different. He will go down the stairs sliding on his butt or he’ll walk down the stairs if I hold his hand but he won’t go up which means I have to carry him to bed every night.
  2. Mikey has a Dynavox for communication. This is a computerized device that talks for him. He is actually very good at using it and can build sentences with it.
  3. Mikey loves Sponge Bob crackers. When I take him grocery shopping, all I have to do is hand him a box and he is as happy as a clam. When I took him to the grocery store today, he was in fine form. He was waving to everyone that we went by. I asked him if he was running for office but he denied any political ambitions.
  4. Mikey has been very tough to get to go to sleep until we started him on Melatonin. Now he goes to sleep without any trouble.
  5. Mikey loves going for rides in the car. No matter what he is doing, if I say, “Want to go for a ride?,” he will run right to the door. He doesn’t like shadows, so he insists on turning on the interior lights if we go for a drive at night.