Why You Won't See Us at the Fragile X Conference

July 23, 2005

Chesterman Beach, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

This is where we spent our honeymoon...and where we will be on July 23. In the same hotel, in the same room we were in five years ago. I can't wait! Thanks to all the grandparents and Quinn's nanny for making it possible for us to take some time away from our little angel. We hope to make it to the conference in 2012!

Quinn's new haircut

Obtained at the cost of much screaming and fussing, but we like the results.

Perks of having a child (our particular child) with special needs

Because our sense of humor about having a child with special needs keeps us sane:

• He cannot run. He is pretty fast with what one of his teachers has described as "hurried galumping". Still, chasing him down is not too difficult.
• He does not know that a big holiday is coming up, let alone one in which he will receive gifts. There has been no begging or pleading for toys.
• Preschool is free.
• He does not really say "no". (But he is getting close, and occasionally says something more like the Russian "nyet".)
• Our doctor prescribes drugs to help him sleep.
  
• The toys people give us are usually a bit advanced for him, so we get to savor and enjoy them for a loooooong time before he outgrows them.
  
• When I put the crib tent up almost a year ago, some folks told me Quinn would figure out how to escape within a month or so. He's made no escape attempts yet.
• We do not worry that any of our "bad" parenting (letting him watch too many videos, letting him eat sweets, letting him have lots of totally unstructured, "unenriching" time, etc) will prevent him from being a Rhodes Scholar.

Survival Garbage Trucks

As you may have noticed, we have sitemeter on our page, which tells us how people find this blog. Most hits come from predictable places: through other Fragile X blogs, through our facebook pages, or from the Blogger navigation bar (which takes people to a random recently updated blog).

However, it is really fun to see how people find this blog when searching. Someone typed "survival garbage trucks" into Google, and lo and behold, the first listing is this entry. I guess this is our claim to fame.