Memorial Day weekend - swimming!

We visited my SIL for Memorial Day weekend, and they have a pool so that is pretty much where the boys wanted to spend all their time. They LOVE the water, and as Barbara has noted, pool time is therapeutic. After repeated field testing of this hypothesis, my boys concur :).Look at those smiles!!Last year, Bitty didn't venture past the steps at the edge of the pool. This year,...

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Autism and Empathy blog

Rachel recently started a new blog devoted to the topic of Autism and Empathy, with the purpose to "undo the myths about autism and empathy that have stigmatized autistic people for so long." (quoting from her blog description)I think it's a fantastic idea and am happy to have one of my earlier posts shared there, "Lullaby by Bearhug: Goodnight Baby" about a sweet "brotherly love" moment :).Go check it o...

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Spring break

From April... we did our annual road trip to visit the grandparents :).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cuddlebug and Bitty took turns pulling each other in the wheelbarrow...Bitty got quite a workoutMore "heavy work," Bitty had fun loading and unloading the wagon with firewood.At the park... traffic jam on the slide :)Bitty asked me to take this picture, he loved the "triangles."When you don't...

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The flowers are thirsty

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Palkia strikes again

In today's news... traffic came to a halt this afternoon when a sudden Pokemon battle in the middle of the Island of Sodor made a local bridge impassable.The citizens of Sodor were frightened but no one was harmed in the incident, other than Pikachu being a bit dazed. He was airlifted to the nearest Pokemon Center and is doing fine.The city remains under an electrical-storm watch...

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Kirby

A while back I posted about how Bitty gave himself the nickname "Spunk."Well, soon after that, he decided his new nickname would be "Kirby."As in, this guy:From this game:What could be better for a guy who loved pink and video games?So for months his nickname has been Kirby. Until just recently.He woke me up one Saturday morning, waving his pink pinewood derby car in front of...

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