It’s a well-known fact that while you can run all year round, here in the Pacific Northwest you can really only run outside between late March and late September. Which means that the first 5K of the year that we usually participate in is the Run2Pieces at the end of March, which supports the Autism […]

Goodbyes are hard. Thumper’s speech therapist J. – who has been a good friend to us for years, before and after she got married – is moving away.  Her husband A. got a promotion and that means that they are relocating. So, not only are we losing friends (and their three kids), but Thumper needs […]

Of course, I thought of the perfect Christmas gift for Thumper AFTER Christmas.  Perfect timing, really. And it’s something he could really use now, so I didn’t want to wait for his birthday. His therapist and I decided that we would call them earmuffs.  I put them on him for the first time in front […]

Thumper is definitely the most sensory seeking of the boys.  His love of squeezes, tickles, and hugs are well known (not to mention his need to touch skin).  And he has always loved the weight of pillows. Well, he started taking one of our large Japanese pillows to bed with him last week – to […]