Food

Peaches – Epic FAIL!

November 14, 2008

You may have already heard of this, but when your kid has significant feeding and sensory issues, one rule for introducing a new food is to try it 10 days consecutively, typically once a day. They will probably fight and gag and carry on at first, but if you picked a reasonable food to try, [...]

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Surviving a Long Trip and a Baker’s Dozen of Things We Learned

September 22, 2008

We’ve returned from our trip and everyone is in one piece. It went better than anticipated, but it was still exhausting. As often is the case, I think the successes during the trip can be attributed to J-Man being stronger than we give him credit for and a lot of planning and strategizing on our [...]

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Happy Birthday, J-Man!

August 30, 2008

(It’s not exactly his birthday, but today was where the party had to fit in the calendar.) It’s hard to believe he’s 3. Time really flies away on us. With him starting in the Pre-K autism preschool next week, this will definitely be an eventful and emotionally-charged week for us. After having jam-packed events for [...]

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My Name is (WHAT?)

June 13, 2008

The J-man has a new and exciting talent – the ability to say a whole phrase. That phrase? “My name is ‘J-man’!” It goes like this: Mama: My J-man: muh-muh J-man: na-na Mama: name J-man: i-i Mama: is J-man: na-na! Mama: ‘J-man’! [We assume you know that neither 'na-na' nor 'J-Man' is his name, and [...]

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Your Moment of Zen – Pictorial Cuteness Edition

June 7, 2008

Took this one this morning during the walking around part of his breakfast. Say Cheese Toast! God, he looks more and more like Mary.

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This Week in Achievements!

May 24, 2008

After last week’s wild travel adventures and being so far off our schedules that we might as well have been in a different dimension, we didn’t expect a whole lot on the progress front this week. Our goal this week was just to regroup and get back into the routine. Our sleep has been erratic [...]

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Parental Validation

May 1, 2008

We took J-man to the doctor yesterday for a physical. The county requires one as part of the paperwork to get him into the school system setting, versus the Early Intervention setting. The office did very well getting us in on time, but the J-man was NOT HAPPY about being there. He certainly knows that [...]

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Weird behavior of the week

April 25, 2008

Lately J-Man has been trying to stick small objects, particularly little bits of food, into his ears or up his nose. Normally this involves small bits or crumbs of chicken nuggets or toast. I don’t think he’s ever tried to stick anything sharp up there. Let me just say that pulling a little fragment of [...]

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