Just wanted to post a link my nine year-old daughter Georgia's donation page for the charity Love Without Boundaries which supports orphans and children needing expensive medical treatment in China. Their program helped Georgia and her own orphanage back before we adopted her, and in return she's going to attempt her first run/walk half-marathon in ( Read more... )

Georgia: (watching MST3K on YouTube with Daddy) "Why is everything in black and white?"

Daddy: "Well honey, this was before colors were invented. Everyone looked like that."

Mommy: "Daddy!"

Began very badly, with Thomas waking up t 12:30am and refusing to go back to sleep. I stayed up with him until 2:00am, when we got Tracy and Georgia up and just opened presents then. We gave Miss G a LEGO set, a replacement for the glass diamond paperweight from last year that she lost and a Spirograph set. We gave Thomas a PS2 Fat and Madden 2006 ( Read more... )

My daughter Georgia as a ferin from chaypeta's Terinu webcomic, sketched by Neziha Zahed.


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So, my son Thomas, who is autistic, is entering adolescence. In a normal child's life this is a difficult time. In Tom's, its been pretty upsetting. Especially at daycare this year, since he's been increasingly disinclined to listen to the teachers there and they have been increasingly unable to handle him (the personnel consists of three women, ( Read more... )

So Friday, myself, moonshadowed, Thomas and Georgia, plus Tracy's mom and Aunt Donna, all piled into my minivan for a trip to Cleveland so Tracy could meet with a couple of online friends and run in a local half-marathon ( Read more... )

So my niece Tracy got married on Saturday. Georgia was in attendance as her flower girl, and did remarkably well given that she's only six and very bouncy. She went down the aisle with reasonable dignity, scattering petals and standing mostly still with the bridesmaids during the rest of the ceremony (it didn't hurt that they all were telling her ( Read more... )

Definitely need to see this one when it comes out.

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Georgia just woke up coughing and complaining her feet were itchy. They're covered in Chicken Pox bumps. Facepalm.

Off to the doctor's we go this morning.

So, yesterday she starting limping at school, complaining her leg hurt. It was visibly swollen when she got home, so I took her to the doctor today to get it checked out ( Read more... )