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Living with Fragile X Syndrome

How is this for weird?

Umma | June 27, 2009

The kid that never naps…is napping for the 2nd time in a week!  He lay down, covered himself over and fell asleep…just as he did earlier this week.  It’s so weird.

Well, I’ll be a Monkey’s…

Umma | June 23, 2009

Mommy, heh.
My kid…can count to 10 all by himself.  I knew he could get to 7 with prompting but he kept going when I asked him to and then repeated it several times for me b/c I couldn’t believe my ears.  Woah.

Party Time!

Umma | June 23, 2009

We had a fantastic Father’s Day this year.  Duhdee didn’t want anything and he’s really hard to buy for without instruction because he’s very particular…it’s the engineer in him, I guess.  Monkey and I gave him something that I knew he would love though, the gift of time.  We gave him a bunch of “gift certificates” that [...]

Oh, hi!

Umma | June 22, 2009

I sort of disappeared, eh?  A few things have conspired against me in the last almost 2 weeks…1) I had a birthday and Monkey gave me The Sims 3, which is incredibly addictive; 2) Work has been very, very busy and my co-workers have been out of work leaving me to man the ship solo; [...]

The trickster.

Umma | June 10, 2009

This AM Monkey and I took the bus to school.  While we were waiting at the bus stop one of my bus friends1 approached and greeted us.  Monkey used his favorite diversion tactic and left me very confused.  I had to translate each of these for the gentleman.
“Look!  Bus!”  (He looks at the school bus [...]