Mavic Has Left The Building!

Over the past year and a half I have read up on how autistic children like to escape from their homes and go explore.  I was so grateful that Mavic never did this.  Well, he now has figured out how to escape - through our sliding door.  He does it when I am feeding Luke - kids are so smart!  I will come out of Luke's room and find my sliding door open and our gate on our deck wide open too.  Luckily so far, Mavic just goes to the neighbors to play on their swing set, but with Mavic it is only a matter of time before he goes further.  Every time he does it I put him in time out, but he keeps doing it so I am pretty sure the time out thing isn't working.  As scary as it is - he makes me laugh!  We are going to get a lock of our gate so that he can no longer escape - we will see how long that lasts ;).