Matthew Sumida: A Day at the Beach

Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Day at the Beach

It has been so beautiful and warm that a beach day was in order. I took Matthew with our friends on Friday and the kids had a blast. I was reminded how much I love California when I watched Matthew frolic in the waves.

My handsome beach boy!

He had a great time playing in the sand too.

Matthew and his best buddy Brenna

Yummy Kiran

Romancing the waves....

Look at my sweet boy!

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As I was making breakfast I heard someone sneak into the kitchen behind me. I followed him to and caught him in the act!

Matthew loves to sleep with his trucks...This is what I found when I went into his room just before he woke up!

4 comments:

Trojan Fan said...: Beautiful pictures!; July 27, 2009 at 1:50 PM
EP said...: I love the update! I was LOL at the picture of Matthew with his trucks. That was just too funny!!!

He is growing up to be such a big boy!

Elizabeth; July 27, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Anonymous said...: I miss you Matthewwwww!!!

-anna; July 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Roxy said...: So cute. It shows that he is loving that water and sand on his little feet.; August 3, 2009 at 12:33 AM

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We started this blog because we wanted to be able to keep our loved ones up to date on Matthew and the wonderful progress he is making. It has been a crazy time since receiving Matthew's diagnosis of moderate to severe Autism in February 2007.
Autism is classified by the World Health Organization and American Psychological Association as a developmental disability resulting from a disorder of the human central nervous system. It is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder. It typically begins before 3 and is lifelong. It is characterized by varying degrees of impairment in verbal & non verbal communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive & stereotyped patterns of behavior. Children w/autism often fail to respond to their name, are unable to speak or have delayed speech and often avoid eye contact. They tend to engage in repetitive movements like rocking, spinning, hand flapping and in self-abusive behavior such as biting or head-banging. All behaviors that Matthew was exhibiting regularly. At the time we sent letters to our loved ones, we described what autism was and that there was no cure for autism. Well...... that is not the case. You can recover from autism and to that end we are pursuing a combination of therapies. Matthew is in an intense intervention program consisting of ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis), Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. He is in this program for between 6-8 hours daily. He is also on a gluten-free and casein-free diet which he has been on since February 2007. We began biomedical intervention in June 2007 as well and homeopathy in April 2008. We read stories all of the time about these parents who start the diet, biomed or other modalities and see a miracle before their eyes. We have not had that experience but with each added intervention we see improvement..... 10% here, 8% there. We know that we will reach that 100% mark and that day will be the second best day of our lives, the first being when our little angel was born! We will update this as often as possible to that you can celebrate Matthew's success with us.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Day at the Beach

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