Cuteness

Guy and Dolls

January 4, 2009

For months now, the J-Man has carried two things – no more, no less – in his hands around with him just about everywhere he goes, nearly every minute of the day. For a long time it was two wooden, alphabet blocks, and often the same two blocks (K and D). Then it went back [...]

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Many Ways to Say ‘I Love You’

January 3, 2009

As I described yesterday in the “One Syllable At a Time” post, we’re getting some great mileage out of breaking everything down into these syllable-by-syllable exchanges, going as far as dividing one syllable sounds into even smaller parts as needed. So, much to our eternal and unending delight, the J-Man has two wonderful sentences he [...]

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Christmas Ultrasound for Mary

December 24, 2008

Well, THAT Mary didn’t get the benefit of an ultrasound, but ours did! They wanted to get a better look at the heart (significant family history of heart issues) and confirm that a cyst in the brain we didn’t actually know about (but that apparently are common and go away in most cases) was indeed [...]

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My First School Picture

December 18, 2008

I’m still so impressed they got him to sit and pose and sorta smile for a school picture. We haven’t had a professional portrait done in at least a year and a half due to all the meltdowns we’ve had before. The special ed teachers at school basically tell the photographer to stand there with [...]

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Car-oling, True Gifts, Some Bragging, and Thoughts on Hope

November 28, 2008

I have one absolute law about Christmas – absolutely no Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. I believe in doing one holiday at a time, doing that holiday well, and then moving on to the next one. But once Thanksgiving is over, Christmas music plays several hours a day at our house. We’re totally [...]

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More Thankfulness – Our TWO Sons!

November 26, 2008

No words needed.  

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Daddies, Mouses, Social Interaction, and a Dash of Zorro!

November 1, 2008

One of J-Man’s favorite words lately is ‘mouse’ (mow-muh – as in ‘ow’ not a long ‘o’), thanks to the new Best Book in the Universe (TM), The Napping House, which he has completely memorized. We read it before his bath, and he could pretty much recite the whole thing to me at this point [...]

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Wordless Wednesdays – “The World is My Canvas” Edition

October 8, 2008

[The kid who used to hate coloring has turned into our little artist.]

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