Your three-year-old son (the one with the severe speech delay) sees you grating cheddar cheese for soft tacos. He then walks up to you, clenches his hands into fists and waves them upright from bent elbows, saying, “Cheese, ‘Omit!” The best part was, he did it again for the Webmaster when he got home from […]

With the end of school yesterday, Tad has survived his first week of school. He’s gotten progressively better at drop-off time, but he just knows that we’re going to leave him, so the whimpering begins the second he gets out of the car. Still, he doesn’t have to be physically restrained. Much. Anymore. That being […]

All my regular readers know that Tad is a devoted Cars fan. His favorite car? Lightning McQueen, of course! So imagine his delight when we watched the Pixar Play Parade at California Adventure and the first thing (and the “grand marshal” of the parade) to come down the street was this: Tad thought he had […]

As you regular readers know (and welcome to those of you who are checking in over here via Matthew! I will be blogging about my out-of-computer meeting with him very soon!), Tad is not autistic, and he is not mentally retarded (though he may act like it sometimes). He is, though, socially delayed and has […]