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Living with Fragile X Syndrome

OMG, OMG, OMG!

Umma | June 30, 2008

I’m way busy at the moment (vacation fast approaching) but I HAVE to share this…
Pasted from IM (yes, that short on time):
[17:55] Duhdee: MONKEY JUST PEED WITHOUT BEING PROMPTED!!!!!
[17:55] Umma:
[17:55] Umma: holy crap!
[17:56] Umma: WOOOOHHOOOOOO
[17:56] Duhdee: tell me about it!
[17:56] Umma: lmao
[17:56] Umma: crying
[17:56] Umma: lol
[17:56] Duhdee: lol
[17:56] Duhdee: he’s in his boxers has [...]

I’m not sure who needs more “training”

Umma | June 28, 2008

For the last two or three weeks (time gets away from me these days) we’ve been actively potty training and we’re having some success, I’m happy to report.  Monkey was NOT a fan of potty training at the beginning, every time we asked him to use the potty he’d sign “all done” and run off [...]

Successful shopping.

Umma | June 27, 2008

On Sunday, before we went to NH for our nephew’s 2nd birthday party, we decided to go shopping at Toys R Us.  We needed a birthday present and we had some good coupons so we thought we’d take our time and pick out some stuff for Monkey as well.
We were able to pretty quickly narrow [...]

Here enters the cavalry…

Umma | June 26, 2008

This is a Fragile X Memory from before our Fragile X diagnosis.
At Monkey’s 12 month check-up his pediatrician was a bit concerned about his lack of babbling.  She asked us to set up another check-up for 15 months so that we could gauge his progress.  She reassured us and told us not to worry.  When [...]

Our little trickster…

Umma | June 25, 2008

Monkey outsmarts us on an almost daily basis.  I keep thinking to myself “I need to blog that!” when he does something like this but it slips my mind.  I have a few recent examples to share though.
1.  Monkey looks at Duhdee and points toward the floor.  He’ll sign/say “Help, look!”  If this doesn’t work [...]