ice day, sick day...

We were home yesterday with ice cancellations, and now lilman has 102° fever & is totally miserable. So sad. Big tears.

Lars & his buddy Sofia, who is one trimester older than he. They've always just been so sweet together.

forgot to knock on wood?

Literally the day I thought to myself, "wow, Lars made it through the whole winter break without seizures," he ended up having a major seizure day yesterday, with four. Rats. I'd unfortunately also been thinking how great it was that we'd had so much ice, but yet I hadn't heard of anyone taking a terrible fall. I really should be surrounded by wood upon which to knock: Andey fell this morning and had to get staples in her head. Ouch.

On a lighter note, Joa had a great sax lesson with Kathleen, he and I spent a car ride tonight trying to say "unique new york" over & over & laughing ourselves silly, and he's going snowboarding for the first time tomorrow @ Wachusett, with his school, and is way excited "except for the part about falling over backwards." Yeah, well there's that...

shoe shopping with Allie

Lars' buddies

Our church has a committee called the BRE Committee, which stands for "Belonging is a Religious Experience." It helps make church, religious education, and all church-related activities accessible for children and adults with special needs, and provides support for the families of these folks. In our case that has meant that Lars has had a buddy with him every week for the 11:00 service so that I can go to church and not worry about him, and this semester it has also meant that he's had another buddy with him for the 9:15 service because I was teaching Sunday school. That's a huge commitment. I wish I had pics of all the buddies, but here are Jan & Emily: and wait- I know that hand! It's Ginger!

phone pix

this morning

let it snow!

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an evening

it's a bird...

it's a plane... it's... Larsman!! or is that Snuggleman? the buttons form a capital "L" in braille