All about Karsen...DUH!

I threw that "DUH" in the title because that is my little boy's current favorite new word!  Momma DISLIKES.  I'll say something and he will go "yeah duh"...he's nice little 4 year old way of saying "no shi*". 

• his favorite color is still pink
• he always picks a girl avatar when we play wii
• he says "you do-do" or "do-do bird"
• he can spell is name and some of his friends names in his class (Elle, Iver)
• he loves to help me clean my room and hang up my clothes.  He calls hangers "curtains" and always has, I can't figure out why
• still hates his picture taken *grumble*
• loves to play with Raider, but occasionally gets too rough to Raider will snap at him.  Tonight Raider head butted him with his nose and teeth left a goose egg on Karsen's forehead, but he deserved it.
• His little legs get tired of going up all of the stairs in the house so he will stop and say "we really need an elevator"
• he's been singing all of the cute little Christmas songs they are learning at school, something about 5 candles, a chubby little snowman
• I'm 99% sure he won't be attending or participating in his Christmas program.  He refuses to go in Miss Karen's (the 5 year old teacher's) room and practice will all of the other kids. It's a break in his routine.  He wants to get to school and go in HIS room where HIS teacher is.  I would love to see his little concert, but I'm sure he won't conform to perform
• Karsen was diagnosed with autism a few months ago.  He has so many obvious signs.
• He likes to wear his shoes a size bigger than what he should be wearing
• he loves to play dodgeball
• he loves to color
• he needs either my mom or myself to spray "ghost spray" when he goes to bed.  It's air freshner..shhhh.
• He LOVES his stuffed frog and lion.  We left frog at John's house a few weeks ago and he was a mess without frog!  I got out his old frog (his first one he had, he chewed on it and it had to have it's arm partially amputated) but he didn't want old frog because he was dirty and chewed on.
• he loves music and sings along to so many songs I listen to.
• He likes the cartoon Powerpuff Girls...sigh
• I worry about him being gay when he grows up
• he loves taking a bath
• he loves tape and will unroll the entire roll if he gets his hands on it
• he's super picky about what clothes he will wear (part of the autism)
• He's gotten the clean plate award at school a few times recently.  One day he had "meatwoaf"
• He talks about turds a lot
• He makes pretend phone calls on an old cell phone we gave him, it's really cute and he can carry on a pretty good conversation..with..um..himself
• he thinks cereal is a food group
• he's getting better at recognizing letters, but still only knows half of the alphabet
• when he sings the alphabet there are 2 K's and no J.   H-I-K-K-L-M-N-O-P
• he wears size 7 clothes..in boys!  no more toddler clothes.  He's a big boy for his age.  Bigger clothes are more expensive and not as cute
• He is really into fake tattoos right now, a bunch came with his monster trucks