Nathan came excitedly bounding out if his room, exclaiming “Come look at what I made!” I followed him into his room to find this: He had made four identically built rocket ships out of some blocks his grandma had gotten him a while back. He was so pleased with his creation, as were Paul and …
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You know those carts at the grocery store that have little kids’ cars attached to the front that children can sit in? You know, the germ factories that kids always get all excited about riding in. Well, we all went grocery shopping last night and of course, Nathan became super excited the moment he saw …
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John and Nathan, like all siblings on the entire planet, have moments where they don’t get along too well. Don’t get me wrong, they are great brothers and Nathan is reallly, really good with John. But, of course, they are still brothers. And brothers will get into spats at some point. Sometimes Nathan is the …
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Mr. John loves, loves, loves brushing his teeth. He doesn’t scream and fight it like Nathan did. He DOES try to bite the toothbrush so he can get the toddler-approved toothpaste off though! Apparently, he thinks it’s delicious. He especially likes when I’m done brushing his teeth and I hand him the toothbrush so he can …
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I’ve never been particularly happy with Nathan’s haircuts that we’ve paid for over the years. Combine his sensory issues with a sometimes over-zealous hairdresser and you typically end up with haircuts where his hair looked like a mushroom, or was crooked, or too short, or a combination of it all with a traumatized mom and …