Back to School!

We are back to going to Perkins once a week after summer break.

we ARE ready for some football

So cute :)

hiding from mommy

Lightbulb has gotten pretty big latley. She is walking now, really well, and we are back living with her grandparents, which she loves.

News Stories

Famlies of Children with Disabilitys Dtrugging to Keep Food on the Table from the Boston Examiner.

*Gasp* California says Green Cars are bad??? from CNN

Another “Blind people can do anything story” from CNN

Wonderbaby.org

http://www.wonderbaby.org/

 

Is a wonderful website run by the mother of a kid Lightbulb used to go to school with (me graduted and moved on to preschool) check it out!

been kind of ignoring this blog latley, sorry

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Julia’s audition photo for KISS

Mothers Day

Mothers day when you have a special needs child isn’t a day off.

It’s the day your low functioning 15 year old pours your a bowl of cereal without help… and you don’t mind picking up the mess.

It’s the day you think your blind kid sees you.

It’s the day when nonverbal does not mean you cant hear “Happy Mothers Day” with your heart

It’s the day when he wont behave through brunch,  but you realize you wouldn’t have had that much fun with waffles at a fancy restaurant anyway.

 

It’s the day that your mother finally realizes how much harder your job is.

 

It’s the day that Dad turned of the monitor and slept on the floor in your kid’s room so you could sleep through the night.

 

What does it mean to you?

Srs cake business

Lightbulb’s birthday party was a smashing sucess.

Echolocation and Frusteration

I get really frusterated not knowing how much my daughter can see.

In Touch: News for Blind People did a show on Echolocation recently. Echolocation is using sound to figure out what is around you. For example, if someone holds a board to your left, and you snap in front of you and to your right, it will make a different noise than snapping to your left does. It’s part of mobilaty and orientation training in some programs. I dont know how I feel about it. I guess I think that humans would have a hard time using it. It is was bats use to get around. I dont know. I’d have to see someone use it to really understand how it works.

News: Wrestling and Marathons

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/04/22/macnally.blind.man.stops.robber.wthr?iref=videosearch

A blind man wrestles an intruder in his home. Freakin awesome.

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ireports/2008/04/22/marathon.kicktofinish.cnn?iref=videosearch

Blind people in the boston marathon

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/02/film.climbingblind.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

Blind kids climb the Hymalias