MonkeyBoy likes to turtle sleep. He covers his head up with his blanket, I think to tune out the rest of the world, and then he falls asleep. So we always have to go in and uncover him after he’s fallen asleep, especially since he’s so hot blooded that he is usually sweating [...]
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and that goes for our rodents as well. I found this one crawling on our floor today trying to catch its own tail!
…when you voluntarily fork over $6 so that you and your child can take a four minute spin around the mall on an indoor train.
MonkeyBoy is feeling under the weather today. Yesterday he spent the afternoon chasing cats at his uncle’s while the men watched football, so we aren’t sure if he’s gained a cat allergy or just come down with his first cold of the season. There’s stuff going around, so I wouldn’t be too surprised [...]
Today was the first day of the new school year for MonkeyBoy. Nothing says “first day of school” like a goofy picture and a bad haircut. I may have to take the scissors to his bangs myself, I can’t do a worse job than the “professional” that hacked on his hair last week. [...]
MonkeyBoy and I will be walking in the local stroll-a-thon to raise money for Rett Syndrome Research later this month. One of his little friends has been diagnosed with Rett Syndrome – it’s a neuromuscular disease in the autism spectrum that affects mainly girls. The girls appear healthy for the first 6 to [...]