Where did THAT come from?!

So thankfully it's been a while since bathtime was a full-on battle. Which is why I was totally surprised the other day when I went to give Bitty his bath only to have him not only refuse (yeah, that's not so rare but usually he gets in even while he's complaining and saying he's not taking a bath) but actually start to have a meltdown over it. A screaming, flopping, fit. When he jumped into the tub specifically to pull the plug, I took the opportunity to very quickly start scrubbing him down....

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My sweet baby

Impromptu photo session in the front yard. He humored me to a point, and then he went back inside to play. ...

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Birthday party landmines

Bitty was invited to a birthday party a couple of months ago. He's not a big fan of birthday parties even though I have taken him to a few (he gets a fair amount of invites for a guy who rarely talks about his classmates outside of school). This one was from a boy that he has known since preschool and is also on the spectrum, one of the few people he does talk about every now...

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June, in pictures

Aside from Cuddlebug and Bearhug's birthday, here's a recap of what we did in June. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dh and I celebrated our 19th anniversary last month. We took the whole family out to dinner to celebrate, here are my four handsome dates for the evening :). Bitty is very particular about his drink and insisted on a big cup like the rest of us had, so the waitress brought one...

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May, in pictures

Catching up, wanted to share some of what we did in May (separate post coming soon for June). Little Bitty's class participated in Special Olympics soccer. I was able to take time off from work to go cheer him on with dh :). I'm glad my big guys aren't too big for this yet :). They've been doing this for years... their typical way to pass the time while we are at the checkout...

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In his own words

"i like thomas and freinds and i like spongebob i have thomas toys i also like angry birds" ~ found on Bitty's "user information" on the flipnote website. Too cute (and quite fitting, no?) Just had to share. :) On a related note, here are a couple of his latest flipnotes. He figured out how to take sequential pictures and make movie-style flipnotes with them. These are all pictuers of his toys. Pretty creative if you ask me! This one he narrated himself, I love his voice (and wow he is...

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Overheard...

Various conversations and comments from the last couple of weeks: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Cuddlebug (reading billboard): 'Red Bull gives you wings'... I wish that was true, because I really want to fly... ~~~~~~~~~~~ Bearhug: Time machines won't be invented in my lifetime, because if they were I would've come back to say hi to myself by now. I would do it at this time because right now is when I'm interested in time machines. Hard to argue with his logic, huh? :) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Bearhug: "Do you know...

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Biology, according to Bitty

Bitty often asks me out of the blue what certain words mean. Because of his language difficulties, he doesn't always pick up on "context clues" and he has a strong preference for concrete, easy-to-visualize explanations. I do my best, but my walking-dictionary-on-the-fly skills sometimes fall short. Bitty: What does "born" mean? me: You mean like when babies are born? Bitty: When I was born. me: It means you came out of my tummy. Babies are in their mommies' tummies before they are born. Bitty:...

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Happy birthday America!!

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...

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Birthday boys!

I know I ask this every year, but seriously, where does the time go?! Cuddlebug and Bearhug celebrated their 11th birthday last month. The big 1-1. And they are already acting like they're teenagers, ack. They keep telling me things like "teenagers like (fill in the blank)" and "you don't understand teenage humor." (you mean they've already figured out my sense of humor is...

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