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• ▼2010 (13)
  • ▼March (3)
    • Autism, Meltdowns, and Sherlock Holmes
    • Big B, Little B, What Begins with B?
    • End the R-Word, Take the Pledge
  • ▶February (3)
    • Beginning to Rebuild
    • Grandmother
    • Six Words
  • ▶January (7)
    • The valley of the shadow...
    • Wordless Wednesday - The Ideal Picture Schedule for Parents
    • I Have a Dream for Autism
    • Upstairs/Downstairs
    • MOAR PUFFS nom nom nom
    • Finally Picked My Three Words for 2010
    • Goodbye to the Aughties
• ▶2009 (127)
  • ▶December (7)
    • Three Words for 2010
    • 25 Good Things
    • All I want for Christmas really is...
    • Apologies and Thanks
    • Are You Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?
    • Like a candle
    • All I Want for Christmas is...
  • ▶November (5)
    • Trying to Get Perspective
    • In Dreams Asleep
    • Thanks for Being Awesome, Nathan Baker (Updated)
    • Pause
    • Is "Asperger's" on the way out?
  • ▶October (8)
    • The Sign for Brother
    • A Blessing for the Day
    • Not Dead Yet
    • "Let's get back to the interview about the hero thing!"
    • Flexible Spending Accounts - How to Make Autism Expenses Hurt Less
    • Finally Discovered I Share a Birthday With Someone Cool! (with coupons!)
    • In Dreams Awake
    • All the Good Things
  • ▶September (11)
    • Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
    • Blast Off!
    • The Color Purple
    • Thom-ageddon?! Thomas Gets a Makeover
    • The Subject We Avoid Talking About - The Physical Toll of Parenting
    • Remembering
    • Just People
    • Recognizing Your Own
    • Even More Annual Celebrations - One-Year School Anniversary!
    • One Really Good Day
    • The J-Man Turns 4! A Retrospective
  • ▶August (9)
    • Simple Gifts
    • It Takes a School Village to Make a Great IEP
    • Dear Abby vs. A Critical Family Member
    • A Tale of Two Babies
    • Stop the Screaming
    • Autism Speaks - Salaries Gone Wild?
    • "Checklist of Neurotypical Privilege" - A Must Read for All Parents
    • The Cost to Raise a Child and Yet More Autism Disparity
    • The Number Seven - Happy Anniversary to Us Edition!
  • ▶July (9)
    • Our Trip to the Dentist
    • Time For Our Semi-Annual D-Day
    • Autism Mondays?
    • What's So Different About Me?
    • Nature's Way of Telling Me to Stop It
    • Adrift in Some Parallel Version of July
    • Mama Guilt from Listening to "Experts"
    • Fireworks Dismay - A July 4th Photo Essay
    • Be Our Vest, Be Our Vest! We Love Our Weighted Vests!
  • ▶June (7)
    • Good Babies
    • Interrupting the Loop
    • Autism - Life in the Company of Not-So-Strangers
    • Social Smiles
    • We Get All a-Twitter
    • Do the "Whatever It Takes Pokey"
    • When the Only Thing Routine is the Lack of Routine
  • ▶May (10)
    • His Inscrutable Music Preferences - Don't Stop! Edition
    • Legos as means of communicating emotion?
    • The VERY LONG birth story of E. Normous
    • Time flies when you're too tired to tell time
    • "Who moved my seat?" or "When little things beget huge meltdowns"
    • In these days of a million adjustments...
    • Baby Pictures!
    • It's Baby de Mayo!
    • The last day before everything changes - again
    • Apparently we can't have babies without a national emergency
  • ▶April (13)
    • The King and His Throne
    • We're back! Kinda.
    • Happy Birthday, Samuel Morse!
    • In Which I Disappoint
    • Not just another walk in the park
    • In Celebration of the Woo
    • "Will be able to match colors in 4 out of 5 observations" - um, check!
    • Getting into the Woo now
    • Looking Out Beyond Our Horizon
    • Worry and scaredness
    • Book Review - "The Game of My Life" by Jason McElwain
    • United Nations Statement on World Autism Awareness Day
    • Happy World Autism Awareness Day!
  • ▶March (14)
    • Shining More and More! Quarterly IEP Report
    • Jumpy Jumpy Jumpy! No, I'm not trying to go into labor...
    • Nesting is Hard Work
    • Of Grandmothers and Fruit Salad
    • Bubbles and Babies
    • Diagnosis Day
    • How Does One Observe 'Diagnosis Day'?
    • Handy Handouts
    • Starting to Sink In
    • The Perfect Toy?
    • Why I can't read some autism blogs
    • Happy 105th Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
    • Autism, Medical Expenses, and Tax Time in Our Family
    • What's Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 3)
  • ▶February (16)
    • Bragging While Dragging
    • Get Both Hands and a Flashlight Delivered to Your Door! (sort of)
    • What's Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 2)
    • What's Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 1)
    • The Clinical Definitions of Autism, Asperger's, and PDD-NOS
    • Happy Blogoversary to Us!
    • This is the cold that never ends...
    • What Blogging for a Year Has Taught Us
    • Could Taxes Possibly Be Any More Complicated?
    • The LeapFrog Clickstart Is Clearly Not of the Devil
    • How Much is a Bed Worth?
    • Update - Stimulus Package, Special Education, and a Lot of Confusion
    • URGENT ACTION ALERT! Special Education and Disabilities Funding on the Chopping Block (Updated)
    • You Kinda Get Used to Weeks Like This
    • Musings from the Weekend
    • Autism Goes Super
  • ▶January (18)
    • Teaching the Doctor
    • Stimulus Bill Passes House! Time to Focus on Senate
    • Action Alert x 2! The Stimulus Package and Funding for Disabilities Services
    • Another Quote of the Day
    • Godspeed, Kay Yow
    • Living It
    • Action Alert! Stimulus Package and Disabilities Funding
    • President Obama and Autism
    • We love Rachel too!
    • Out of the House and Temporarily Back to the 'Real World'
    • Fun With Folder Games!
    • The Unlikely, Inspiring Combination of Gatorade and Autism
    • Poor Receptive Language - Yeah, Right
    • The 439 Stages of Grief
    • Guy and Dolls
    • Many Ways to Say 'I Love You'
    • One Syllable At a Time
    • Worry
• ▶2008 (231)
  • ▶December (21)
    • 'Happy Autism'?
    • One of the Best and Quickest Ways I Know to Improve Your Perspective
    • The Wise Man of the House Certainly Isn't Me
    • What Christmas Means to Me This Year
    • Christmas Ultrasound for Mary
    • Stimming in a Winter Wonderland
    • Holiday School Party - Things Worth a Thousand Words Edition
    • My First School Picture
    • Climbing Up the IEP Goals Ladder - "What a Great Quarter!" Edition
    • Parent-Teacher Conference
    • Unwrapped!
    • Developing His Own Calming Strategies During Travel
    • Think All Flash Cards Are Alike? Think Again! - A Review of Goosie Cards
    • Ain't No Mountain High Enough
    • Getting Off My Own Routine
    • Temporarily Gaining Back Some Ground in the War on Chaos
    • "What if he never talks?"
    • Most All Autism Politics is Local
    • Unconscious Competence
    • He's the One They Call Dr. Feelgood...
    • Travel Hangover...
  • ▶November (35)
    • Reflections on NaBloPoMo and Writing to Become a Better Parent
    • As If We Forgot That We Don't Travel Well
    • Car-oling, True Gifts, Some Bragging, and Thoughts on Hope
    • Beyond Black Friday - Gifts That Make a Difference
    • More Thankfulness - Our TWO Sons!
    • Thankful
    • It's a...
    • Stay Tuned for Big Announcement Tomorrow!
    • A Few Minutes Back on the Main Road - What is 'Normal' Exactly?
    • My God, He IS Reading! (Special 200th Post Edition)
    • Roy G. Biv
    • Adventures in Not-Really Potty Training
    • Hot Wheels That Heal
    • Decision Against Alex Barton's Teacher - At Least For Now
    • If Parents Started Talking Like Skateboarders
    • Shoebox and Folder Games
    • The $64,000 Question - Is He (Dare We Say It) Reading?
    • Britax Marathon Car Seat - Fire Sale at Target.com (Updated)
    • Do It Yourself at Do2Learn
    • Peaches - Epic FAIL!
    • Seasonal Affective Disorder and Autism?
    • Major Mea Culpa
    • The Autistic Terminator!?
    • Roll Your Own Muppet
    • Oh Croup!
    • Achin' 2 - Electric Croup-aloo
    • Suckus Haircuticus
    • How One Father Sees His Daughter
    • Join Us On Facebook!
    • Post-Puzzle Piece Autism
    • And Now We Will Hold You To It
    • Vote!
    • Being an Obsessive Data Junkie
    • Can We Throw Rain Man Down the Memory Hole?
    • Daddies, Mouses, Social Interaction, and a Dash of Zorro!
  • ▶October (18)
    • Mom Candy - or why everyone stops at our house on Halloween
    • Obama and McCain on Autism Spectrum Disorders, Education, and Health Care
    • Wherein I Lose It
    • Just Another Mopey Monday
    • Learning How Not to Say "I'm Sorry."
    • Breaking News - Other Kids Have Names!!
    • Heavy Work
    • The Adventures of Captain Diaper Hat
    • From Research Studies to Wanton Self-Reflection
    • Thilly Thursdays - Joes, Bobs, the Race for the White House, and the Decent Into Political Asininity
    • Building Blocks, Sequences, Memory, and Thoughts on Thinking
    • Autism Ribbon Run 5K - Post "Race" Report
    • Playing Hurt and On the Road Again
    • Wordless Wednesdays - "The World is My Canvas" Edition
    • Think Outside the Bun
    • More "Why I've not been blogging"
    • The Adventure Begins - Again!
    • Mental Health Gets Bailed Out Too! And Disability Rights Activists Get a Two-Fer!
  • ▶September (16)
    • Taciturn, Twisty Tuesdays
    • What My Hero Taught Me About Parenting an Autistic Child
    • Not the Fine Motor Achievement We Had In Mind - UPDATED (with the most bizarre twist ever)
    • This Just In - Dads Can Parent Too
    • Not the Fine Motor Achievement We Had In Mind
    • Both Hands and a Flashlight 2.0 Coming Soon
    • Surviving a Long Trip and a Baker's Dozen of Things We Learned
    • Everything I Know About Traveling With An Autistic Toddler
    • Why I haven't been blogging
    • Silly Saturdays - Make Your Own Disease Name
    • Different, Superhuman, or the Genetic Future?
    • Special Ed and Symbolism
    • When School Meets He-Who-Would-Not-Nap
    • Not all That Wordless Wednesday II - After-School Special
    • Wordless Wednesday - First Day of School Edition
    • 'Twas the Day Before the First Day of Preschool
  • ▶August (18)
    • Happy Birthday, J-Man!
    • Our First IEP Process Draws to a Happy Close
    • IEP Results - The Short Version
    • Of IEPs and Heartburn
    • Surfing Therapy for Autistic Children
    • ...because you never know what their story is.
    • Houdini
    • Fish Oil and Omega-3s - The Sort of Final Verdict for Now
    • Down the Home Stretch with the IEP (We hope)
    • Five little things you can do to prevent your day from being a complete disaster
    • I'm not wearing pants!
    • Hulk! Like! Jammies! - Grrrrrrrrrr!
    • Five Things You Can Do If You Think Your Child Has Autism
    • Swifter, Higher, Stronger
    • Our First Experience with Therapeutic Listening
    • Big IEP/Preschool Evaluation Now Behind Us
    • I choose you all over again
    • Sensory Quirk du Jour - The Iceman Cometh
  • ▶July (17)
    • Superheroes
    • Stairway to Not Heaven
    • StupidFilter vs. Michael Savage
    • Michael Savage - Putz of the Year (and it's only July)
    • Code Words
    • Revisiting Milestones - Speech, Language, and Reading
    • Fun With Family
    • Such a thing as too much attention...
    • Help Make Both Hands and a Flashlight Better!
    • Bathtub Artist
    • Pointers and Tips on the IEP Process (Guest Post!)
    • Toner for Autism?
    • J-E-L-L-O!
    • Houston, We Have Pretend Play!!!
    • Whatever Gets You Through
    • Celebrating Our Freedoms By...
    • And colors too?!
  • ▶June (20)
    • Actually, he does!
    • Action Photos - Working at His Desk
    • Don't tell me your qualifications if you can't write a decent sentence
    • A New Block-Carrying World Record
    • Assistive Technology Resource for People in NC
    • Giving Thanks for Therapists - A Season of Transitions
    • Apparently Vomiting Improves Gross Motor Skills
    • I Want to Play My Computer Game, Please
    • Adventures in Fatherhood - A Quart Low on Testosterone
    • From the Way-Back Machine - Reflections on Father's Day
    • My Name is (WHAT?)
    • Assistive Technology - Tell us what you know
    • Survived the dentist!
    • Dreading the dentist...
    • New Blog Features
    • Your Moment of Zen - Pictorial Cuteness Edition
    • A is for...
    • Hear! Hear!
    • Shoes, glorious shoes!
    • Structured Learning at Home and Reward Pellets
  • ▶May (18)
    • This Little Light
    • Chewing on J-Man
    • Ups and Downs
    • He can type?!?
    • This Week in Achievements!
    • Wherein I Flaunt My Internet Nerdiness
    • Subscribing via FeedBurner and Other Meta Goodness
    • The Fish Oil We Use
    • In which I say, "I am still on West Coast time"
    • Going Home
    • Being away
    • Happy Mother's Day to My Best Friend
    • Happy Mother's Day! (we think)
    • In which I say, "Have you ever had a child?"
    • What's Your Autistic Toddler Like?
    • Haircutorama, take 2!
    • Quote of the Day
    • Parental Validation
  • ▶April (16)
    • Our Version of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) in Action!
    • Weird behavior of the week
    • Speech Improvements Galore - Fish Oil, Speech Therapy, Both, or What?
    • The Big Cook: Adventures in the Kitchen
    • Where do parents of autistic kids in Holland go?
    • I Believe I Can Slide!
    • Preschool and IEP - The Adventure Begins!
    • Yeah Toast!
    • Post about upcoming posts and site road map
    • ASD - Diagnosis Now Official
    • There would be naptime
    • Omega-3 Watch - Week 6-7ish / Look Who's Talking!
    • My First Blog
    • World Autism Awareness Day
    • Hickey??
    • Word-filled day! (No April Fools'!)
  • ▶March (38)
    • Why We're Not GF/CF
    • The Information Fire Hose
    • Pillow Fights of the Third Kind
    • The sign for 'yes'
    • Lovely Day
    • Tag Cloud
    • Happy Easter!
    • Life lessons from a book
    • Quote of the Day - How I Feel Edition
    • Gloom, Despair, and Agony On Me
    • Reflections on Good Friday
    • Three letters that change your life
    • Accentuate the Positive
    • Wish us luck
    • Sensory Coping Techniques
    • Haircutorama!
    • The Hair-pocalypse
    • PSA regarding vomit
    • Omega-3 Watch - Week 3+
    • Wetrospective Wednesdays
    • To my dentist - bite me
    • Free gas!
    • A-Day Delayed
    • "Love" is all you need
    • Happy Daylight Savings Time!
    • Coughing and whining
    • And a new OT too!
    • Same preschool, different channel
    • Rain/shoes
    • Geeked-out baby naming tool
    • Whatever works - Brickhouse/James Brown Edition
    • Kisses and Fears
    • MoGo
    • Omega-3 Watch - Day 14
    • My kid is too freakin' cute!
    • Hysterical Blog
    • Escapism
    • Fun with Flexible Spending
  • ▶February (14)
    • Greetings to Big Word Project Visitors!
    • And now, for something completely different…
    • Best Receipt Ever
    • Autism Evaluation -Round One
    • Omega-3 Watch - Day 7
    • Two-berty
    • Party Animal? Only if it’s a mouse…
    • A-Day
    • Autism Evaluation
    • The deductible record will stand another year
    • Omega-3 Watch - Day 1, Take 3
    • Being the Mom, and Fears
    • The Both Hands and a Flashlight Manifesto
    • The quest to find our own asses begins