It just makes me so happy every time we manage to get Tad and Danny together.  For midwinter break, we had lunch and a shopping visit to the LEGO Store together. I hope this is a friendship that we manage to sustain for many years to come.

Tad brought home a masterpiece of his from school.  I sat staring at it for several minutes, just trying to catch all of the detail involved. There’s something from all seven movies represented in this one picture. Sometimes, I can’t figure out how his mind works.  Other times, he just blows me away.

Thumper has developed a very odd and very annoying habit.  I took video of it to show his ABA therapist yesterday. Whenever I turn right to leave our cul-de-sac, he starts screaming. It doesn’t matter where we are going (and there are lots of places we are going when we turn right), he just starts […]

So, time to fill in the blanks here on the blog.  As our family and close friends, and anyone who got our Christmas letter this last year knows, Thumper was formally diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in December 2014. The first red flags were thrown in April of that year, when Thumper did his 12 […]