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Entries for August, 2007

Helping My Autistic Son Buy A Birthday Present For BeAGoodMom

BeAGoodMom’s birthday is coming up in a couple weeks. I decided that I was going to take each of the kids individually to buy presents for her so that I could really work on explaining to Pookie what we were doing.
So, Pookie and I walk into the store today and he is completely uninterested [...]

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Day Off From Work

I have a comp day today because of some extra time I put in for a project earlier this week.  I haven’t had a day alone during the week with the kids for a while.
Pookie has his tutoring lesson at 9:30am-11am.  I think Geetle and I will go birthday present shopping for BeAGoodMom’s upcoming birthday.  [...]

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Smells Like Prime Time

Geetle is a little loopy because of the cold she is spreading to the rest of us.
While Geetle was getting tucked in tonight, she asked BeAGoodMom, “What’s that smell?  It smells good.  Did you take a shower?”
She laid down for a second and then so, “Oh wait.  That’s the TV.”

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Music Is So Confusing But It Will Be A Part Of The Kids’ Lives

When my Aunt Shel and Unlcle My Mark made their big entrance at their wedding reception the other day, they walked in with an instrumental jazz version of “The Simpsons Theme Song.” My mom has that CD from the reception in her car and that song came on while my mom and all four [...]

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Jumping Shoes

Mamaw bought Geetle new tennis shoes to replace the ones that broke the other day.
The old shoes had fancy zig zag velcro shoes and looked more like they belonged on somebody with a last name like Jetson.  These new shoes are more old fashioned so Geetle had to test them out for us after dinner.
First, [...]

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