Desperately seeking Skarloey

I’ve blogged before about how we keep a box of trains in the attic and just a few out at a time to play with, and Bitty will often come around asking for specific ones he wants me to bring down. Every now and then when there are too many out, I take a bunch of them up and we start over. We finally brought the whole box down a few days ago and put it into a closet because I got...

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SEW & WW: Hug

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Try this Tuesday: Deep pressure

I'm opening this one up for suggestions / input.My boys like deep pressure and muscular resistance, Bearhug and Little Bitty in particular. Especially Bearhug. To be more accurate, Bearhug not only likes deep pressure, sometimes it's a necessity in the same sense that oxygen and water are needs.A recent example:Bearhug and I were sitting on the couch together. I had told him...

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Quote of the day

Yesterday dh told Cuddlebug and Bearhug, "when I'm old, you can put my shoes on for me" (not sure what the context of that was, I missed the first part of that conversation).Bearhug responded, "that's ok, Dada, but you're going to have to get strap shoes."LOL, maybe it's time to teach the boys to tie shoes... we haven't really needed to since they wear shoes with velcro straps.If...

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Autism at church: Part 1

I started to write a post about some of the challenges we've been having at church for the last few months when I realized I needed to share some background and it was taking a while to get to my story. So I decided to split it into separate posts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Going out in public in general is challenging when you have kids on the spectrum. Going to church is all the more...

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Bitty's latest phrase

"how coo' mie?"The first time he said it I thought, surely he didn't just say..."Did you just say, "how cool am I?"He grinned with a happy dance that confirmed that was exactly what he said and repeated, "how coo' mie, 'Bitty'?"LOL, "you're pretty cool, 'Bitty'"I'm not sure where he heard it, it's not a phrase his brothers really say. I'm not sure if he really knows what it means...

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Mine!

This is from May, I wrote it and apparently forgot to post (oops)."Mine!" is a word heard often among young children. I'm not sure at what age it typically starts, but in our family, 4 seems to be when it originates. That was the point at which we first heard Cuddlebug and Bearhug say "mine" and recently Little Bitty said it for the first time too.We were at a church event and...

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SEW & WW: Playing with leaves

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Magic Marker Monday: Exploring professions

Here's another comic book that Bearhug wrote a couple of months ago. When I first read the cover, I cringed a little at the title, "The man who couldn't get a job." Not being able to find a job is no laughing matter in any time, but especially in these economic times. But as I flipped the page and started reading, I was cracking up laughing. Bearhug's main character actually has...

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Our story part 14: Bitty in pre-pre-K

Bitty's progress between age 2 and 3 was slow but he did make gains during that time. By age 3 he still wasn't talking very much, but he was more and more engaged, less in his own little world. It was slowly getting easier (not necessarily easy, but easier) to get him to interact. With therapy he had good days where he participated and not so good days where he resisted any kind...

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Just a few random pictures

Cuddlebug Bearhug Little BittyIf you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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SOOC Saturday

Today's SOOC Saturday post is over at my photography blog. Go check it out and let me know what you think. And hurry back :)If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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Technical difficulties... fixed (I think)

My blog has been having technical difficulties off and on for the past few days. I've tried a number of fixes and it seems to be resolved now.If you have trouble accessing the blog, please email me at 3runningincircles [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll see what else I can do to fix it. Than...

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SEW & WW: Visitors

We've had some interesting visitors this spring / summer, including the frog a while back, and then a few weeks ago we found this guy in our garage, making himself at home on one of the boys' bikes:And about a week ago, Bambi wandered out of the forest behind our house (it's protected land, and sometimes the deer wander out to see what they can find to snack on. A neighbor around...

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Triangle mystery - solved

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Bitty's quest for an unknown "twigul" (triangle). He first asked for "dwaw twigul" and then "twigul on da wadder" (triangle on the ladder, in other words, in the attic) but I was at a loss as to what he was actually looking for.About a week after that, I stumbled onto the answer. I was helping look for the trailer that goes with one of his train...

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Mondays in Motion #17: Bike farewell

Bearhug and Cuddlebug were out riding their bikes when I told them we'd be heading to the toy store soon to look for new bikes, because they were getting too big for the old ones (we bought them when they were five, and even though they've just recently started riding them, they've grown a lot since then!). They had become rather attached to their bikes, so while they were excited...

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SOOC Satur... uh, Sunday :)

We had a neighborhood get-together tonight for the 4th of July, including fireworks. We do that for most holidays (New Year's, Memorial Day, etc.) and everyone brings food to share (we usually bring desserts and today dh also made salsa to bring, yum!). It seems like every time there are more and more people who come, and there was a pretty big group for today's festivities,...

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Freedom is not free

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes...

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Confessions

Last week I was getting Bitty dressed, and since he was sitting on the bed I put his shirt on first since that was easiest / most accessible. Then I had him stand up and take off his pull-up so I could put on his underwear, shorts, and socks. Before I could get his socks on, he stripped down and looked at me with a mischievous laugh. I knew right away what the problem was, I had...

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Sweet sixteen

Time flies... dh and I celebrated our 16th anniversary last month. With all the birthday excitement and everything else, we almost forgot (but we didn't!).Here's a slideshow I made for our anniversary last year, for any new readers who may not have seen it. Maybe for our 20th I'll make a new one :).If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or R...

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