We're home from church today. We all have a cold to varying degrees. At this point we should just home church, I think. I'll put that on my list of 101 things to do but will likely procrastinate on. We made it to church last Sunday. It was the first Sunday since school started that we had kids (and parents) healthy enough to go. We've had stomach bugs, we've had cold bugs, we've had simulataneous stomach and cold bugs. Each year I think "It's got to be better than last year", seeing as how we pass so many bugs around you would think the kids would be developing some type of immunity by now. But no dice.

We are at a loss with Joshua. He's pretty low in the autism spectrum, we're not wringing our hands about that. What has us worried is he has been so UNHAPPY all the time - at home, at school. He doesn't even want to take car rides, which his Grandpa David can testify was high on the Joshua list of loves. We don't know if he needs meds, if something traumatic has happened that he can't talk to us about.. we just don't know. His eating has been worse than usual. He spends his time either crouched in grass outside, shredding grass and leaves, or inside laying down on the couch and miserable. Oh, he spends a lot of time engaged in OCD (obsessive compulsive) behavior. He opens the screen door to a certain point, closes it, opens it to that point.. over and over. He runs whenever you open a cabinet door and wants to shut it just right. Joshua's teacher called on Tuesday to ask "What is up?!!".. his behavior was so "off" at school. Like I said, he's not high functioning, and he has plenty of unusual behaviors under his belt, but being so unhappy and so disinterested in everything. So his 6th birthday was not what I would call happy by any stretch. He started bawling as soon as he got off the bus, and stayed pretty upset the rest of the day (including the running away from the cake episdoe).