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The height of summer, for a kid like Toby, is a magical thing. Every day we go outside and he LOVES it. Toby really likes to be outside. We have to bathe him in sunscreen, because he's so fair, but he's willing to tolerate it because he loves the sunshine ( Read more... ) -
Firsts
I finished knitting my first sweater this weekend. I decided to start small...well, small in size. I knit Toby a sweater. I made it 18 month size, so he can wear it this fall and winter (hopefully, if he doesn't grow too much). I wanted to make him model it, but who wants to wear a sweater in the summer?
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Regular readers of this blog know that if there is one dirty word around our house, it starts with "T" and ends with "eething". We thought Ben was Teething FOREVER....every time he was cranky that first summer we attributed it to teeth coming in, and we were always wrong wrong wrong. As with most things, however, Toby is another story all ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in eating
A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a friend about having a child with "food issues". How exhausting it is...how you worry...how all of your well meaning friends give you advice to "just try this or that" when you know in your heart that your child will not eat ANYTHING. Some kids have issues because they are picky, some because they ( Read more... ) -
It's not PC, it's just polite
One of the things I learned and reflect on often after having a special needs child is "political correctness"...it's kind of the butt of a lot of jokes. I'm thinking about it today after a conversation I had with some people (friends of friends) that I met today at the weekly tuesday lunch ( Read more... ) -
Returning to our regularly scheduled
So many things have been happening, and I hope that I have time to blog them all. We have been so very busy lately, and Toby has been doing so many new things! First, before you ask, we have indeed returned to our regularly scheduled...uh....schedule in the diaper department. Toby is feeling much better. The fussiness while eating seems to have ( Read more... ) -
It happens
We've been experiencing some...well, strain around here the past week. For those of you with more delicate sensibilities, I should warn you that this is a poop entry. Read at your own risk ( Read more... ) -
Feeding my addictions....
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Spring is finally here, people. As I type I can hear the ice cream truck out in the neighborhood. It's at least the one that's not annoying (that one plays turkey in the straw endlessly) or scary (that one plays some weird eastern-european sounding song that sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel). Toby and I have been getting out on ( Read more... ) -
Onties
Before I get to the end of this entry and forget, there are lots of pictures of the weekend with the "onties" (aunts) on our Flickr photo site. The link is to the left there, where it says "our photo site on flickr".
We had a marvelous time, just marvelous. Melon and Anj (
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