Things to be thankful for (our day so far)

The first thing Little Bitty said to me this morning was, "Trees... I wike trees" Pretty random, lol :).Bearhug: "I had a great dream last night, everything was donuts. A hammer was a donut. A bed was a donut. I ate them all. It was great until I got sick from eating too many donuts." Yep, eating tools and furniture that are really donuts will do that.Cuddlebug: "Hey Mama,...

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A Father's Perspective

A while back dh was interviewed for Special Needs Neighborhood on his thoughts on raising autistic children. At the time of this interview, our twins were 7 and our youngest son was 3 1/2 years old.In an effort to keep a record of the interview (trying to keep everything in one place), I'm posting it here (and backdating it), with minor edits to the introduction.~~~~~~~~~~~~Dh is a stay-at-home Dad to our three boys, all of whom are on the autism spectrum. He has a degree in teaching and coaching....

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A few updates from our week

Highlights from this week:Little Bitty continues to throw a fit every. single. morning. :P He calms down by the time he gets to school but I wish I didn't have to wrestle with him every day just to get him dressed. He was doing so good before the Christmas break... but ever since going back mornings have been rough.Cuddlebug and Bearhug earn "money" at school for listening,...

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SEW & WW: Eating ice cream

Little Bitty hates the coldness of ice cream, but he always wants to try it anyway. He ends up just barely trying it with the tip of his tongue:Click here for more Special Exposure Wednesday, and click here, here and here for more Wordless Wednesday.If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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Birthday wishes

Last week was my birthday, and the boys made me these cute cards :). As you can see, they are into Super Mario Bros, lol. I had to laugh at the "dead piranha" in Bearhug's picture, only a 7-yr-old boy would give his mom a birthday card with a picture of a dead piranha, ROFL. :)Cuddlebug's card was full of random numbers and a note to circle my age... after I did he said to circle...

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If Bearhug ruled the world...

One day while driving, we were getting close to our destination when we ran into some traffic. Ready to get out of the car, Bearhug informed us that when he grew up, he'd make a sign that read:LOL, sometimes I could go for one of those signs too. :)If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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Dad's perspective

As many of you know, dh is a SAHD and has been since Cuddlebug and Bearhug were 6 weeks old. Rene and Kim over at Special Needs Neighborhood asked if he'd be interested in doing an interview about what it's like to be a SAHD with special needs children. It will be posted in parts, so far parts 1 and 2 are up.Head on over there and leave some "comment love" for dh, I know he'd...

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Meeting Glenn Beck

We weren't formally introduced or anything, but when Glenn Beck was in our area for his book signing tour, dh and I decided to go. Knowing that we'd probably have to wait in line for a while, and knowing how much our boys love waiting in lines, we arranged to have Bearhug and Cuddlebug play with their friend across the street for a while and we took Bitty with us.We arrived about...

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Lovely blog award

Wow, a big thank you goes out to Sticky from Not too sticky... for awarding me with this aptly named "Lovely blog award."I promised to be a little more on-the-ball with passing these along whenever I am fortunate enough to receive one, so here goes:The Double Trouble TwinsMy Platypus LifeFloortime Lite MamaAnother Piece of the PuzzleMoms of Special Needs ChildrenNOTE - this is...

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The day of many baths

I've been meaning to post about this... last Sunday we had a day of many baths for Little Bitty. First up - his regular bath, just because. He HATES taking a bath these days (sometimes he loves it, sometimes he hates it, doesn't seem to be much in between) so he screamed the entire time. I got almost as wet as he was from all the splashing, and the fact that I had to physically...

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A glimpse into our trip

Finally, just what I know you've all been waiting for! Ok, probably not, but here they are anyway :). A few pictures from our trip over Christmas:Bearhug and Cuddlebug had a great time visiting with family.Cuddlebug's red bandana is getting pretty worn out so we bought some new ones - in several different colors so he can change it up now if he wants to :).Here the boys are playing...

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SEW & WW: Bumper cars

In my Mondays in Motion post the other day I included a clip of Bearhug and Cuddlebug riding the bumper cars on our spring break trip last year. I mentioned that they talked their Grandpa Chris and Great-Grandma Dora (my grandma) into riding with them, here are the pictures :).Click here for more Special Exposure Wednesday, click here and here for more Wordless Wednesday.If you...

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I'm losing the battle...

...with my hair. :( I'm not even 35 yet (at least not for another few days) and the white hairs just keep popping up. Yes, they are not even grey, they are WHITE!The first one showed up when I was 27, which just happened to be the year that Cuddlebug and Bearhug were born. Coincidence? You decide...It was just one or two, and I yanked them out and moved on. Of course they...

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Mondays in Motion: Random moments 2008

Mondays in Motion is back! We'll stick to the first Monday of every month going forward and I'll try to remember to post a reminder a week before each month.For this month, here's a collection of some random video clips from 2008, starting with Jan08 and ending Dec08. A couple of them you may have seen before but most are new :).This includes their first snow, a trip to the aquarium,...

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Overdue thanks!

I wrote this on Friday night and didn't post it because when I finally finished it was very late and I was too tired to make the rounds letting everyone know about their awards. Over the weekend whenever I was able to steal some computer time, my google reader was calling my name, so it still didn't get posted. Anyway, so today I'm going to go ahead and post it this morning, and...

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Magic Marker Monday: Logic

I found this on Cuddlebug's schoolwork a while back, I think the object was to tell how they worked out the problem but I love his logic :).On the same page was this - he drew himself eating a donut, which is funny because we rarely have donuts in the house and that one is gigantic!For more Magic Marker Monday, visit 5MFSN.If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or...

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