Halloween as a family

 Images from Boo bash near where we live which is an awesome community event we attend every year.

Colin as Mario from Super Mario bros. while Braeten is wearing the traditional chicken costume that I made for each of the boys to wear at the same age.  4 times this costume has been worn now for each of my boys!

Conner was 'black' from Pokeon

Logan a cowboy for boo bash but wolverine for Halloween night.

 Proud mama dressed up as zombie Katy Perry with the most adorable chicken ever, Braeten!

 Proof that Colin has 'day blindness' where he can't see or his field of vision is extremely narrow to the point of being completely blind during bright sunlight.  Hence, why his eyes are wide open and won't flinch while you swipe your hands in front of his eyes.  Achromatopsia is a genetic condition which commonly comes from incest.  Which is why the geneticist as well as his Pediatric optomotrist believes the Reichert 'royalty' might be involved in this rare genetic mutation.  As royalty in the Reichert side heavily encouraged incest amount 'royal' family.  There is also color blindness on a 2nd cousins side of the Reicherts with additionally having hearing problems which might potentially explain Sticklers..possibly.  This could come from more than 1 side of family as told from geneticist. 

 Colin loves his Thomas candy bucket all dressed up at Mario.  He has started to make less eye contact now, smaller word answers, and severe regression within speech.  However, he has potty training but they've told us to watch that over the next 1-3 years to see if there might be any regression that would let us know if CDD is going on. 

One of Colins many obsessions.  At Fred Meyers he has to hug each pole before we enter the store or exit the store.  At times he's okay at least touching it.  However, he will know if we missed one or skipped one in which a meltdown occurs due to his OCD like behavior.  These meltdowns you can't just 'snap' an autistic child out of.  No real redirecting either.  You must feed the OCD behaviors to what it wants in order to be satisfied as it's calming to him.  Just like his spinning and hand flapping he does all the time is a form of stemming.