Tooth Fairy
I don’t care who you are, when your daughter loses her first baby tooth, it’s an event. Catherine’s lower left tooth had been wobbling in her mouth for a couple of weeks. But today, we finally determined it was loose…
Author: Ellen Moore
Festivals and Stares
We recently went to an art and music festival in Annapolis. I have a hunch Catherine responds differently to live music, so I wanted to expose her to whatever the “music” part of the festival had to offer. Turns out,…
Amazing People
Driving home last night, I was talking with one of Catherine’s aids for school. You can imagine this has been a tough few weeks as we still do not have things sorted out for her placement. We’ve hired private aids…
If Everybody Had a Notion
Catherine got to surf! Yep. I haven’t even ever tried surfing. I wimped out in Tamarindo, Costa Rica for some stupid reason, but my five-and-a-half year old (cuz that’s how she’d say it) got to surf when we were on…
Testing Email Notifications
Just spent an hour figuring out how to set up email notifications for this blog. Crossing my fingers that it works.
Special Education
We just spent 4.5 hours in a special education mediation meeting. I can’t write about the details now, but let me just say that if I had all the money in the world, I would make it my singular mission…
Smiles
My mom sent me an article about a girl in Charlotte who has a rare implication from jaundice. She was getting ready to have a surgery that would create deep brain stimulation to hopefully help control her chaotic movements and…
Allergies waiting
Once again, we’ll wait and see… Catherine had a severe respiratory attack on July 5 after going out for a bit of ice-cream to close the holiday weekend. We wound up riding via ambulance to the ER. Happy Independence, huh? …
School
Catherine has been attending UCP’s Delrey school this summer. So far, she’s doing great, and we’re really happy with it, especially in comparison with the county school for special needs kids. They’ve been able to feed Catherine and to help…