Im always impressed by Marie, she is so patient and helpful with Ezra and Simon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Simon. You remind me of my Great Grandson Mason. He will be 4 in September. He says a few words & is such a loving Child. I look after him M-F while his parents work. We have a great time together. Goes to Playschool 3 mornings a week & loves going. Has a therapist working with him at playschool. Progress is slow. I'm called PawPaw. He can't say it but it will a wonderful day when I hear him say PawPAW. Happy Birthday again Simon. You & Ezra are bright STARS in my life. Love to both of you.

Your older kids are something else, supportive big brothers and your lovely girl is like the little ones' second mom. The independence seen in the little ones especially Ezra is remarkable. It's a job well done parents❤👏 you're a wonderful family

It is wonderful to see how well they both are doing. Autism is scary when it's first diagnosed, but then you understand that they are unique, beautiful children and you will do everything you can to help them have thier best life.

Simon! You are a Wonder.. You Mom and Dad's Joy; As well as Your 4 Elders! May I Wish you the best-4the And Many more😊

Dear Simon All those friends on your birthday cake.... What a difference in the world you make.... Happy birthday

Your daughter seems like a great sister especially to Simon:D Also happy late birthday Simon 🎉❤

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON!!!! ❤

Lol, not gonna lie, at first I thought the bike was for Simon to ride by himself and I thought "isn't he too young for that?" 😅What a great idea to get something that you can enjoy together as a family. Happy birthday, Simon!

Happy birthday, Simon! All the best to you and your family! ❤

Happy Birthday, Simon!! I hope you enjoyed your special day, surrounded by family and lots of love!!!

Brave taking those boys on that bike. Wow!

Happy 4th Birthday Simon

Happy fourth birthday Simon I hope you have a fun day of happiness and laughter

Such a loving and thoughtful idea to give presents to sibblings as well! The dog is adorable!

Simon has a Bluey cake this year! 🎂🐕💙💙

Happy birthday Simon I hope he has an amazing year he was so excited and awesome Ezra was excited for him

Happy happy birthday Simon!

Happy 4th birthday Simon 🎉🥳🎂🎈🎁🚘

Thank you such a joyful video, happy birthday to Simon. A big 4 year old. Fantastic bikes and what a good idea with the seats on the back!

Happy birthday 🎂 🎉

Happy Birthday Simon :)

Happy Birthday Simon I hope you have a best birthday and best wishes can come true .

Happy birthday Simon! 🎂🎁🎈❤️

Happy Brithday Simon!

Happy 4th birthday Simon! 🎂

Happy Birthday Simon..Lovely to see so much of language he has developed..❤Both Simon and ezra are so independent.❤

Happy birthday day Simon

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Wow… Simon must LOVE breakfast 😁

Happy 4th birthday Simon 🎈 🎈

It seems like Ezra is doing really great, I hope his new school is helping! Simon is such a happy and good kid happy birthday dude!

Happy Birthday Simon ! ❤🎉😊

Happy 4th Birthday Simon!❤🎂🎉I love your Birthday cake it looks delicious!

Happy Birthday Simon 🎂🎈🎁🎉🥳💐💝

Happy birthday! Your 4 now!

I love how Ezra is learning how to eat at the table

Happy fourth birthday, Simon! Whether or not giving siblings gifts on another sibling’s birthday is a good idea depends on the kids and their personality types. My parents tried that on my birthday one year (I think when I was around six or seven) and my sister wanted all of the presents. My parents had to explain to her that she would need to wait until her birthday (in less than a week) to get more presents. That might have been the same year that she wanted all of the presents for Christmas because she is the oldest. They had to explain to her that that’s not how it works. She was 10 or 11 at the time.

That is an amazing idea for the birthday person to give a sibling a present. ❤

Happy birthday Simon 🎉🎉

Happy 4th birthday simon and cool bike

What a fun birthday for Simon, and how fun for Ezra to get presents too!

Happy birthday Simon such a strong and happy boy❤

Happy Birthday, Simon! Hi, Mark, Benson, and Marie! Cool tent, Ezra!

Happy birthday Simon!!! I love Bluey too! Your cake was so cute! Also, can we talk about how Ezra gets more handsome by the day?!?! He’s growing up so fast.

Simon reminds me of my son when he was little. He loved cars (he often walked around with one in each hand), and he talked similarly too. He would have loved these bikes, but he's now doing a great job riding his own bike. The years have gone by very quickly. The days are long, but the years are short.

It’s good that Simon knows that the word “cool” has more than one meaning. From what I remember I was a year-and a-half or (more likely) two years older than Simon is here when I understood that. Is this one of the things that they go over with in Simon’s speech therapy, etc?

Happy birthday Simon! 🎉🎈❤

Happy belated sweet cutie pie, Simon. He has made great progress in speaking since I saw him last. That's great. This Revi e-bike is truly a wow. So much fun for Ezra and Simon in this wonderful landscape 😀

So many cool presents!! That bike is pretty awesome and I am loving the Bluey cake ❤❤

Estoy tan feliz ver a Ezra comiendo en esa mesa tan independiente 😊 Happy Birthday Simón 🎉🎉

I think it's good you guys also give Ezra gifts it's avoids meltdowns and it's just sweet

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON 🎂

Happy birthday Simon 🎉🎂

Happy birthday Simon, your day is going to be awesome when your parents are getting your presents ready for today, and I like when you speak completely sentences

I am so excited seeing this.

Lovely family.❤ I'm so impressed how great you are with your kids. My baby is 9 months old and I'm suspecting his high risk of autism. I hope my husband and I can do our best as you are doing, such a lovely family and so supportive. Happy birthday Simon! You are a wonderful kid.

Ezra looked really happy like he was having a fun day 😊 and a happy Birthday too. ❤ Happy Birthday Simon! 🎉

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON 💜💜💜🎁🎁🎈🎈🎂🎂🍰🍰Have a great day.

Awww wish him many more birthdays ❤ my kiddo turnt 4 last December and he barely reacted to his gifts while opening them but later on after having out he excitedly played with all of them. He tried super hard to not "hurt" the presents by peeling them slowly lol, I had to give him permission to just open them however he wants, it's so nice seeing them get older every year 🥰

Awww happy birthday simon!!🎉🎉

happy birthday simon

Happy Birthday Simon 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈🎈 🎁

Bluey is all my younger grandchildren's favorite!

Happy 🎉birthday 🎊 Simon. Hope it’s a good one

I retired as a speech therapist (45 years) this past year. I worked with kids like Ezra and Simon. My hardest job was the parents. They were going through difficult times with their special needs kids, regular kids, jobs. I had communication notebooks and we had a day in the week they could phone me. I had kids twice a week and if we felt more therapy was needed,we would try to get a therapist from their health plan.I so admire your household. You follow through with activities, blending everything into a regular day for all the kids. You are amazing and I wish you all the best

omg happy birthday Simon! He reminds me so much of when I was little

Happy birthday simon I hope you have a great birthday party 🎉

Happy birthday Simon hope all wishes come true 💋 🎉🎉❤❤👀👀

Happy 4th Simon :)

Bluey!!! Sorry I love bluey!!!......awww seeing both boys so happy and excited makes me happy, was happily stimming along with them both as they saw there present and for the entire video in anticipation of Simon opening it 😂. So proud of Ezra he seems to be learning to communicate much better and is becoming more able to express himself and I can see his level of independence changing. Both cheese lovers!!! I say while munching on a literal block of cheese for breakfast 😅 I really like the idea of including Ezra and getting Simon specifically who's birthday it was to bring him in, they are both very sweet together despite Ezra not communicating verbally I can see alot of none verbal communication especially with Simon actually , I do feel they have quite a close relationship. And I have now learnt one of Ezra's pitch changes of sound there is a distinctive pitch of sound and facial expressions when it's sad , happy , excited or angry vocal stimming. Great to see everyone is enjoying there presents 😊 hahaha I think the car mat went down great , I just brought one of the kids I look after a construction vehicles similar thing and seems to be a win 😂 Ezra is a little monkey after my own heart to this day even though I am 30 there is nothing I love more than setting up a tent in the living room and gathering things and then just sitting in there...my partner will set it up for me while I'm at work if he thinks I'm having a particularly hard day and I will just climb in when I get inside 😅 Hahaha you predicted ezra throwing those objects nicely , lasted about 15 seconds XD looks like they had an amazing ride , i also love marks helmet great footage for a helmet cam. Little simons singing makes me happy 😊. Haha i always wave at the tv when he says hi. Haha and Ezra as always ready to have a run 😊 such an awsome bike very lucky little monkeys 😊 So jealous of the bluey cake might have to ask for one on my birthday. Simon makes me laugh. Hahaha i dont blame ezra at all i would want the bluey cake toppers to there awsome😅 😅😅 *Sings happy birthday* awww his little heart break when the candle went out so flad it relit 😊 glad to see everyone involved and having a great time 😊....haha your cake looks amazing i would order your cakes didnt even notice it was fallen over. :( is Ezra rubbing his cheeks again one looks a little sore again? :(

I love that Ezra got a gift as well 😍

Simon is so much like my youngest son who is 21 now. The only difference was my youngest son would have melt downs. My son also had ADHD making him more hyper. He was started on medication and he has done well since then. He was in special education until 6th grade. In 6th grade until High School Graduation he was in general education with an IEP. He currently works at Walgreens as a cashier. He is fully independent. Emotionally he is more like a 17 year old. Has no cognitive delays either.

It’s good to hear the word “independent” being used correctly here instead of how my relatives often used it to mean “stubborn”. Depending on how much Ezra understands of the speech that is used around him using these words correctly might be helping him with his autonomy (like on that recent Sunday morning when he used the toilet independently for the first time).

Happy Birthday Simon! 🎈🎈

Howdy Ezra! Cheese-Boy! Wisconsin is Asking for You!!

A friend of mine has a three-year-old granddaughter who will be turning four before the beginning of August. They’re not one-hundred-percent sure but they are fairly sure that she is level one like Simon is. She has good days and bad days. On a good day (like today, for instance) she is able to talk fairly well and communicate her needs about as well as Simon does. She seems to go back and forth between sensory seeking and sensory sensitivities. For example, sometimes if someone gives her a cupcake she will eat almost the entire cupcake and leave the frosting on the plate (like today). Other times she will just eat the frosting and leave the rest of her cupcake on her plate (like another time that I saw her in the last three months). One thing that her grandmother is slightly concerned about is the fact that while she typically knows that she is three years old and usually answers correctly when someone asks her how old she is (she almost always says one or two when she gives the wrong answer) she seems to virtually never give the correct answer when someone asks her how old she will be on her birthday (The right answer is four but she usually gives an answer of three and sometimes gives an answer of two or even one). In essence I was wondering if Simon had any similar difficulties with this just before he turned four (given how recently he officially became verbal (probably around the time of that Dollar Tree shopping trip last September (give or take)).

After the diagnose i was scary, but Simon just gave me hope ❤

HAPPY BIRDAY SIMON

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wow, Simon is becoming a growing boy.

I am so happy Simon can speak now. Really hope my son also improves by the time he turns 4. He was not born autistic but he got into mild autism due to screen.

4 now that’s awesome he’s proud kid

It’s good that Simon is able to ask “What’s this?”. He seems to be about six months ahead of where I was at that age in terms of asking questions.

The sound of the plastic rings on the dog banging together reminds me of the sound of the plastic keys that I enjoyed playing with when I was younger (starting around age three or four and continuing up to around Ezra’s current age) when I was stressed out sometimes after a day at school, for example. From what I remember these were taken away after I turned nine because they were considered to be “too babyish”. Looking back, I think the concern was that if I played with them too much it would cause me to regress.

Happy birthday to Simon 🎉

I will really love a video to see Simon how will he interact with other children at school or a playground

Happy birthday Simon!!!

Stores need to bring back Lightning McQueen merch, i notice people under the spectrum love him. My brother has autism & he loves Cars. We need adult size merch too lol Happy Birthday Simon!

I have a tent just like that, I love it, also I love cardboard boxes and I am super jealous of that massive one. I love to make things like forts or models of things.

Great video as always! Looks like it was a lovely birthday and the whole family enjoyed themselves. As an autistic adult, I can only say over and over again what an amazing job you are doing as parents. It warms my heart that your autistic boys are getting the understanding and support they need early on. It will impact their lives in ways you cannot yet imagine. Also, I'm a little late on this but would you mind giving the name or a link of the puppy dog toy with all the different textures that Ezra got? I am looking for some new stim toys and this one looks super fun! Thanks in advance for a reply!

Happy bỉtthday Simon🎉

A bluey cake that’s so cuteee

Hello happy birthday

I noticed that in general Ezra looks like he’s more aware of what’s going on around him than he was even six months ago. Also, he seems to be getting better at telling people what he wants with his iPad. That being said I wonder if he may have some visual/spatial difficulties similar to the ones I had growing up and still have to a degree. Until I was about five or six I struggled with recognizing even the most basic shapes. If I was unusually tired or stressed out I would sometimes even get triangles and rectangles mixed up. When Ezra got off the bike and started walking the wrong way I wonder if he might have been having difficulty recognizing which houses are which. Even now (as an adult) it is just about impossible for me to recognize faces due to prosopagnosia. In my case I can’t be completely sure of how much of this is due to the right hemisphere stroke I had at birth and how much of it is a function of being on the spectrum. Even so I have to wonder if Ezra might also have something like this as well. One time after church my father stopped briefly to talk to someone he knew and my mother, sister, and I kept walking. Due to a combination of extreme nearsightedness and not being able to recognize faces I almost followed another man who was similar in height and wearing the same type of coat into the parking lot. Fortunately my father noticed what was happening and called me back to where he was followed by asking me what I was doing and where I was going. I think I was at least a year or two older than Ezra’s current age when this happened. I’m still not sure if my parents think I was trying to run away on that particular Sunday. If Ezra works more on shapes (basic ones like circles, squares, and triangles first, and then goes on from there) it might help him to eventually recognize different buildings if he is struggling with this. This might take some time because toilet training and learning anything else at the same time might be difficult. On the other hand this can vary from person to person.

I love the bikes

Happy 4th Birthday Simon! I hope you had an awesome day! Is Ezra sensitive to noise? I see how he covers his ears a lot. I was diagnosed with Autism level 1 in June last year, I am 18 so late diagnosis. I am sensitive to noise too.

Happy 4th Birthday Simon 🎂 🎁 🥳 🎉!!! ⚡️🚘 🚙 🚘 🚙 🚘 🚙 🚘 🚙 (Tried for a lightning McQueen Car)

Happy birthday

Happy birthday Simon, Its so good to see Ezra eating on a stool not in a high chair - sorry if the high chair bit is rude