Living & Loving, Autism & Deafness
Our Journey with our loved ones and our lives
Ryan had such a busy week he slept behind me last night in the chair while I was typing =) He had his birthday last Thursday (and it was mine too!) and then was just busy playing all weekend. He fell asleep today again for 4 hours – and guess who else did – me – from 4:30 – 7:30 p.m.! This means I should be able to stay up LATE tonight and type my job – right? Right? So off I go 😉
New birthday pics on the picture timeline –
I think about what it must be like for Chris, not being able to hear or speak. I don’t think about it often, though, because it will make me cry and look at things that seem unfixable. But I know God has a plan and a purpose, though it’s hard to see what it is. Continue reading “silence, and PDD”
2 years ago Ryan had this mop of curls. I’m so glad I have them on film as they’re gone!!
New collage of pix too — on my header.
Next step – I must start building my resource pages for deafness and autism. May have to take a hiatus from posting pics (though it’s so much fun!). I’ll post Halloween pics next but then have to be disciplined… want to release this finished as a resource site by Christmas!
If anyone is actually reading and knows of any resource sites to tell me of, please let me know.
Off to check on a rambunctious four-year-old….
dori
I added some pictures of Ryan under the preschool folder where he’s trying on clothes 🙂
Guess he’s just passing time on a Sunday afternoon.
but have my little boy on me. he luvs me – he’s so cute. i’m typing w/ one hand. he’s my snuggly 4-yr old. he’s sweet. i love him so much.
but was just in mood to clean a lot, post a lot, and be very productive because i’m done w/ typing after typing 3 days straight. i will be starting typing again tomorrow.
it’s too hard to keep typing 1 handed….
dori the slightly (more than) touched-out mama….
I LOST RYAN’S HEARING AIDS. I can’t find them anywhere. I know I brought them in the house; I remember taking them off of him (he has a clip) and I always put them in this one drawer, and they’re not there! I just looked through the whole house twice and am so aggravated. I don’t know if he took them out and was playing with them yesterday when I was working? I had to work like 1 1/2 hours more after he got home (not a good thing) and I hope he didn’t get into them and destroy them…. though I never once saw him with them. I just don’t know. (He takes them off when he gets home from school).
Ugh, so happy Rog has work now (same place since sept. 00). I’m going to keep my foot in the door with the jobs and do a little bit ($50 a month or so) just in case he gets laid off again. But right now, super. We’re having fun together, too.
Please send “finding” vibes my way for those hearing aides!
Love, dori
someone must have sent up an instant prayer for me as I FOUND THE HEARING AIDES! Ryan had them apparently as they were stuffed down in the couch. Little stinker….
(2020, ha ha no one needs to know that this picture was from APRIL of 2020 – wow what a lot of snow for April!!! – I seem to not have many pictures from 02 & 03 of 2006)…
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Comments: grrrr, there is a curse on me. I’m starting to wonder about this work at home thing. i finally got work after expecting it Friday night, and that job falling through for the company. I expected the work Mon.. night but didn’t get any until 10:30 yesterday. (I wanted to work straight through 8:30 – 11:30) So by the time it downloaded it was 11:00 (Ryan gets home at 11:45). So I typed for 45 minutes. Then I hoped all day yesterday to type here and there maybe totaling another 2 hours, but I only got 10 minutes in (Ryan rips the headphones off my ears when he’s home – he only wants to be with ME!). So then I waited until he went to sleep and I started typing at about 10:45 p.m. after i got a shower. I typed until 12 and then Chris got up for some reason and wouldn’t leave me alone! He kept pulling on my arms until I got up. Rog was just getting to bed but said he’d stay up with Chris that I should get some sleep. [I think Chris went right back to sleep after, that, though, so that was good]
Then I set the alarm for 4 but overslept until 4:30. I typed for about 15 minutes and who is up and pulling my headphones off? Ryan. I tried to get him back to sleep, but no luck. I think right now he’s finally (at 6:10) settled somewhere for a minute so I hope to type for 5 minutes but then I have to get the older kids off.
At least I’ll have 3 hours when he goes to school. It’s not long enough, though, to get it all done. It’s due at 3 p.m. but I’ll have ryan from 11:30-3.
This is when I wonder if I should get him in day care 3 hours a day? I know Rog will try and watch him, it’s just that Ryan knows where I am and escapes ad runs and finds me. I need a door on the office! One day I’ll say, “where is that boy that always wanted to be with me…. I miss him.” (2020 – prophetic…. 🙁 )
dori
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Comments: DSL is better -they called last night and it turned out they
were detecting noise on our line and wondered if we had a phone plugged in without
a filter, I said the only one is where the dish is. they said to unplug that and
now it’s the fastest it’s ever been since we lived here. What gets me is the
place previously had said it was fine to have the dish plugged in without a
filter!
Strange.
Replying …
Comments: DOES ANYONE have any potty training tips for Ryan? He has gone several
times, pee, and one-two times, poop, since he was 2. But I can’t get any
consistency. He takes his poopy diaper off and throws the poop in the toilet.
That is good. But I can’t get him to sit there and go. He won’t stay. Any tips?
He is 4.
Hoping I can get a new degree to have a better paying job. I just don’t know
what, yet. And how to get there, to college.
Best in quite a while!
Thanks for prayers and thoughts!
Here’s clips of Ryan’s very belated birthday party!
https://criscollrj.com/pictures/PhotoStory1.wmv
(2020 ha ha can’t remember what a photo story is! but will just put the probable pics here as of course now the 2006 february pics are all in google photos…… unlimited storage!) although these quite honestly may be Christmas? Not sure.
