After sending Ane off on a trip for midwinter break, I didn’t necessarily want a boring spring break.  But I didn’t plan on doing many extra things unless they were with friends – or keeping to our regular therapy schedule.  But it’s amazing how things shift around. While we have met up with Danny and […]

April is autism awareness month.  Personally, I find it to be a giant marketing tool.  Slap a blue ribbon, a blue light, or a blue puzzle piece on something and BAM!  Awareness! A friend of mine, who is a breast cancer survivor, commented that she felt the same way, because “nothing says ‘support breast cancer […]

It was a VERY big day!  Monday was Thumper’s first day of preschool, as well as being his 3rd birthday!  We took our traditional first day of school pictures (never had to do this in March before)… … and then I drove him to school. He wore his backpack while we walked up to meet […]

The big news of the moment is that Thumper will be starting preschool VERY soon! As in, Monday.  On his birthday. I got the official word yesterday, and his IEP is all written, and he is officially registered with the school district. Last Friday, he spent about a half hour in his new class, meeting […]