When Naughty is Finally Something Typical
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3y ago
Kimberly will be going to Kindergarten in 3 months and 6 days.  Since she has Down Syndrome, this has meant lots of evaluations now, and her IEP meeting in less than 2 weeks. It took the school psychologist less than 15 minutes to conclude that she would need significant academic assistance.  When his standardized test had him ask her to point to a child cleaning herself (a kid in a tub, one of six options), she instead pointed to the baby crying in a crib and said, "Baby sad, he need a nap."  When he told her to point to something that flies (a plane, again one of six), she in ..read more
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Road Trip with My Wallflowers
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3y ago
We have nine children, and four of them seem to get the spotlight the most, especially on my Facebook page.  Amelia is naturally outgoing, she always jumps in to help, she loves having conversations, and we run together.  Leif is our awesome little man who has no idea that his siblings are defined as "different" or "special"...he just loves them and loves life...and has so many innocent yet wise moments.  Kimberly is the baby of the family and naturally gets a lot of attention.  Dante takes a lot of time because he has the double diagnosis of Down Syndrome and Autism, so he ..read more
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Friends for a Week
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3y ago
Most fifteen year old girls have a circle of friends.  I'll admit the first image I see is a girl sitting sideways in an armchair twirling a phone cord while talking for hours, but that is dating myself...it's all texting now.  Mom's dropping kids off at the movie theater with admonishments to be safe and have fun.  Going out for ice cream and checking out the teen boys. Amelia, she does not have any friends.  At least not that call her up and say "Hey, wanna go to the movies?"  She has dance class friends, and maybe some day that will evolve into get togethers, but n ..read more
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I am a Runner
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3y ago
A few years ago, when my son joined the Navy and had to do basic training, I decided to take up running myself.  I started on the treadmill, and just wanted to be in better shape.  I followed a Couch to 5K plan, to give me some focus.   Dante has always loved going for long walks, and sometimes they turned into runs, and someone suggested we run a 5k with Team Hoyt.  Last September Jamie and I did run a 5k; he pushed Dante while I pushed Kimberly.  We really enjoyed it and looked forward to more running with them. All of my running was either done in the field next t ..read more
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Our Escape Route
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3y ago
We have a house, almost half an acre of land, free education for our kids, jobs, and a huge garden growing our food.   For all of this, I am thankful. Yet sometimes, the jobs are tiring, the housework and weeding are overwhelming, the free education involves lots of meetings, the therapies and medical appointments that accompany five special needs kids are unending...and an escape route is needed. Ours leads us straight to Rumney Bible Conference.  It has been 17 years since we started taking our family up there for a week every Summer, and a number of years ago Jamie's parents bou ..read more
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Dante and The Birthday Party
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3y ago
A few weeks ago Dante came home from school with an envelope tucked into his communication binder. It was an invitation to the birthday party of a boy in fourth grade. To say I was stunned is an understatement.  I honestly did not know what to do.  The mom had written a note in the invite, asking me to please bring Dante to the party, or just to their house for a bit, because her son really wanted Dante to be a part of his birthday.  She included her phone number so we could talk about it. Several days later I did call her (because I am a world class procrastinator), and whil ..read more
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Home School Day at Old Sturbridge Village
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3y ago
We live near an amazing "living" museum, Old Sturbridge Village.  A few times a year they have "Home School Days", with special session in the education building. I registered the kids-- Amelia, ShanLin, and Leif-- online.  Oddly, there was no box to check for special needs or disabilities.  There was no spot to put a description of what extra help my children might need.  No opportunity for them to think differently about my kids.  When we filed in with everyone else to join the appropriate group (Stenciling, for my kids), no one looked at them, then looked at me a ..read more
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Dante's Annual Physical
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3y ago
Today Dante had his annual physical.  The one day a year I take him to the doctor for no reason other than to irritate him. If he could talk, I'm pretty sure that is what he would tell you.  With a few swears thrown in for emphasis.  Because he most certainly was irritated. Dante has low muscle tone and has difficulty standing and walking without looking like a drunk sailor.  (No offense to my Sailor, if he ever has the poor judgement to get himself drunk)  With his hypotonia in mind, the fist thing I do is tell Dante to tell on a scale and keep his hands to his sides ..read more
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Feeling Blue
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3y ago
Days have been passing so quickly, and it has been three months since I took the time to post here. Summer has come and gone, and we are well into our home school year.  Amelia has taken off with her reading skills, and I have switched to using Alpha-Phonics with her.  She has a solid basis of hundreds of sight words, and is taking well to phonics now.  Micah is also using Alpha-Phonics (the exact same book I used with Alexander and Zachary, only slightly falling apart), but he is going slower than Amelia.  It will be some time before ShanLin is able to read, and she may n ..read more
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Hold On
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3y ago
  Kimberly is already learning that little ones grow up, and we need to hold onto them while we can.     And that sometimes when they act like they are too big to be held, it's what they are secretly hoping you will do.   ..read more
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