So, here's pictures from the Fall Dance at school. Jackson was a Liftmaster garage door opener and Jameson was Doc Brown from Back to the Future (note the pocket of plutonium!)
I had no idea how to make a Liftmaster costume, but it got Jackson's seal of approval and that's all that matters! We went trick or treating last Saturday, and instead of saying, "Trick or treat", Jackson would say, "Liftmaster garage door opener." I think he was really hoping someone would drop one in his bucket.
I'm procrastinating prepping for a talk I have this afternoon to OT students about what it's like to be a parent of a child with special needs. I was reading through my materials and I usually show the class a poster from the Human Genome Project that lists conditions linked to specific chromosomes. I was reading through the 4, and the heart condition Jackson was diagnosed with this summer is linked to the 4th chromosome. Why does that blow my mind? I don't know, but it does for some reason.
School has been going well for both fellas so far. Jackson loves school and misses it on the weekends. He's doing advanced spelling tests because he's so darn good at it. Maybe he could be a professional speller one day. I'm really proud of him.
The last pic is our new family member, Dixie, who joined us in April. Our last cat, Tigerlily, passed away earlier in the year at almost 15 years of age. We adopted Dixie from MADAAC, which is Milwaukee's animal control. They guessed her to be around a year old and she couldn't be sweeter. The boys love her and she's really patient with them. I got the naming rights and I named her Dixie after Daryl Dixon from my favorite show, The Walking Dead. Explaining to Jackson what happened to Lily was very difficult. All he knew was one day she was here and the next she was gone. He still asks for her occasionally.
Object du Jour: Lego sunroofs. He sleeps with them on his thumbs and if they fall off, he wakes me up to find them.
