I will not promise pictures of Monkey’s Halloween costume because I am probably not going to witness him wearing it…but his teacher reported yesterday that he wore it nearly all day at school!  This is huge!  He hasn’t worn a Halloween costume willingly since he was 2!  The other times he wore it just . . . → Read More: Happy Halloween!

we’ve decided to embrace another of Monkey’s obsessions.  Duhdee signed Monkey up for his very own IM account and installed an instant messenger program on Monkey’s profile on our computers.  We’ve set it up so only people who are on his list can IM him and his only friends are Duhdee and . . . → Read More: I can’t believe we did this but…

Monkey created his own day off from school today by waking at 2 AM and staying awake until 5:30 AM when he finally crashed.  Umma was woken up again at 7 AM by a whiny little boy who had run from his room, where Duhdee was trying to wake him up to take . . . → Read More: A day off.

Monkey has gone through various little obsessions in his life.  When he was newly diagnosed it was spinning objects and we came down a little hard on that one.  We refused to let him play with toys that encouraged the behavior as if that would 1. stop him or 2. make a . . . → Read More: Obsessions

I’m sitting on my couch with my laptop.  My husband is cleaning the kitchen and my son?  He is sending me instant messages from his dad’s computer.  Sure the messages are like alphabet soup with a generous dash of extraneous punctuation but it’s still dang cute.