You guys! We had 2 good days in a row. Like really good days. Minimal tantrums, flexibility, smiles, cooperation. (I’m talking about Stevie, in case you were wondering. I know, I have my moments…) I don’t know where this boy comes from, but every once in awhile he shows up and we have such a…
Oh, hello January 7th. It’s you again. Every year you show up and gently remind me of something. You like to remind me of something that I nearly lost. You like to remind me to look around at what I have. Usually I wake up on January 7th feeling a bit melancholy. But this year…
Man oh man, did we have a nice break for the holidays! It felt long. And it felt relaxing. And it was kind of cold, which was so refreshing. We all slept cozy in our bed until 8am the last 3 days and that was everything. I didn’t cross many activities off my to-do list, but when…
Well. That happened. Christmas happened. And now it’s over. OK, not totally over yet. Paul and I are still going to try and watch The Interview before we pass out. I’m always a little sad right before Christmas, because I feel like it’s coming to an end too soon! I want to cherish more time with…
We keep reminding you that you’re turning 4 today. You don’t really know what that means. And you don’t really know what it means to us. You don’t know how grateful we are for you. How we longed to have you here and then worked to keep you here when it seemed against the odds.…
Most of Stevie’s breakthroughs in therapy over the years have been physical. Walking, running, pulling things apart, pointing, climbing. Those are the easiest milestones to identify and measure his development against. So while each one of these has been of the upmost importance, this one feels pretty major. It didn’t take much. And it wasn’t…
Teaching your child independence is so important. Even something small like putting on their own shoes can help them develop important motor skills and take responsibility for bigger tasks in life. This particular task of putting on their own shoes can be broken down into 100 simple steps. Steps 1-99: Ask your child repeatedly to…
My brother rocks. He came all the way from Missouri, accent and all, to help us out with Stevie for the weekend – just because he wanted to. Well, it was his wife’s idea, let’s give credit where credit is due! And it was the greatest. Where he gets his energy, I will never know. He kept up…
He has them every once in awhile. The breakthroughs. And we finally feel some validation for all of our hard work day in, day out. And that all the arguments and many, many tantrums over something seemingly so silly weren’t for nothing. One of them was last night when Stevie took his shoes off – completely unassisted…
It’s been a helluva month, my friends. There haven’t been many Stevie updates and that’s simply because each post would be a long list of complaints from me. And as much as we all have those moments with our kids, mine are all just running together at this point. It reached a peak yesterday when Stevie’s preschool teacher…