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The Sign for Brother

October 29, 2009

As you may be aware, the J-man is in love with Rachel Coleman from Signing Time. In Love. We watch at least 5 DVDs per week, and depending on our ability to walk around/interact, maybe more. (Tim has been having serious back problems lately, and has actually had trouble walking.) The J-man does not actually [...]

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In Dreams Awake

October 4, 2009

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” – Henry David Thoreau “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” – Anaïs Nin Today, a dream of mine became real. You know, those wonderful dreams you have [...]

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All the Good Things

October 2, 2009

My health has just been for crap lately, so crawling out from under my self-pity and general groaning – which I’m not good at in general – has required some serious conscious effort on my part. Thankfully, the J-Man has his ways of snapping me out of it with yet more astonishing new things he’s [...]

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Simple Gifts

August 31, 2009

This has been an eventful week here in the Flashlight House to say the least. Late last week we celebrated the anniversary of Mary’s 29th birthday! And tomorrow the J-Man turns 4. I can’t believe it; time goes by so fast. We don’t do much in the way of birthday presents or parties around here [...]

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Shining More and More! Quarterly IEP Report

March 31, 2009

In our last IEP goals recap from last quarter, the J-Man had a great nine weeks overall and showed great gains. This past quarter just ended last Thursday, and our little superstar continues to make great strides toward what we thought were some pretty ambitious goals for this year. As a refresher for those curious [...]

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Bubbles and Babies

March 21, 2009

For the past few nights, the J-man has been playing with a bottle in the bathtub. We keep one there so I can semi-easily fill it and rinse his hair. He has figured out that if he holds the empty bottle under the water, it makes bubbles. He LOVES the bubbles. On Tuesday night we [...]

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The Perfect Toy?

March 8, 2009

It’s been a long few days of continued sicknesses and traveling out of town – which by the way went pretty well by our travel standards – so we’ve been slow to report much in the way of what’s up around here lately. (Pretty much just sickness, pregnancy, school, and work if you’re really dying [...]

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What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 2)

February 22, 2009

This is Part 2 of our series “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now?”, a journey through what’s happening these days in the life of our autistic 3 1/2-year-old son and sequel to our very popular original article, “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?”. Note: Wherever you see “DSM-IV” below, this means that attribute is part of [...]

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