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Living with Fragile X Syndrome

Nooooo!!! (unabridged version)

Umma | September 15, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, Monkey lost his very first tooth.  We’re not sure when it even happened. We didn’t even know any of his teeth were loose, so I guess it didn’t bother him very much! Duhdee and Monkey were outside when Duhdee noticed it.  He fuh-reaked out when he realized Monkey was missing a tooth…he didn’t [...]

Nooooo!!!

Umma | September 14, 2009

Monkey lost his first tooth today.  Bottom center, the other is loose too.  My baby is growing up *SOB*

Fragile X Conference

Umma | September 14, 2009

This past Saturday the Fragile X Society of Connecticut hosted a conference at the University of Connecticut Health Center.  We left Monkey with my parents in Maine and made the trek down there with high expectations.  It was fantastic!  So fantastic that I can honestly say it was worth having to get up at 5 [...]

If you were a fly on the wall in our house lately

Umma | September 10, 2009

you would hear… Monkey drops a toy, “Crap!”  Monkey watches YouTube videos, “Craaaaap, craaaaaap, crap.” Monkey sees Duhdee with his drill, “Crap!  Crap! Crap! Pwease?” Monkey and Duhdee drive Umma to the train station.  “Craaaaap! Praaap!  Crap!”  *Sigh*  He’ll get tired of the word eventually, right?  It’s really hard to ignore.  Duhdee tried to redirect [...]

Since I didn’t have enough going on this weekend…

Umma | September 8, 2009

I decided to redo our bedroom closet.  I blame the 2010 Ikea catalog.  Ever since it arrived I’ve been paging through it and thinking which led me to browsing the website and even more thinking. All that thinking led me to suggest an Ikea trip on Friday even though I knew it was the very [...]