Today while Alex was in school Belle and I made this special quilt block for our Alex's Army team for the Jersey Shore Walk Now For Autism.
We decorated our square with camo ribbon, a puzzle piece awareness ribbon, a pink awareness ribbon (Belle wanted this one on there, she doesn't know what the pink ribbon means but she loves pink), happy face buttons and frog buttons. We finished it off with iron on camo letter's spelling out the team name and a recent picture of the king himself, Alex. Here's a picture of the finished product. I was really proud of how it came out considering I'm not the most crafty of people and I actually had to sew for this (and got wounded by the darn needle too!).
Once we got to the Kick-off BBQ I turned over our square where they assembled it with ribbons to connect the squares together and make a quilt. It really is touching to see the squares that people have made and dedicated to their children and who they are walking for.
Here's the Alex's Army square in the "in progress" of assembly - quilt. 
Last year we just had a simple square with a photo of Alex on it and his Age & hometown. I found it in the quilt, here it is!
Alex's friend who lives down the street also made a square for the two of them. He is neuro-typical and has taken Alex under his wing in a lot of ways. His square was really touching, he made puzzle pieces and then drew a line connecting them all. He told his mother "I'm connecting all the pieces because they will solve the puzzle and find a cure". Last year Andrew walked with us and went out on on his own and raised several hundred dollars. He is a really amazing child for being only 9 years old. And here is a picture of the quilt assembled!!! Pretty amazing, isn't it????
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