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October, 2010

Review of Astonishing Animals from the Download N Go series

Another great DNG book.  This book is an awesome book to use with autistic children to help them learn.  It is great for non handicapped children but autistic children can learn a lot from the movies and pictures that they see and my son got really excited watching the movies.  Do you know what an Aye-Aye is?  They are ugly …Continue reading →

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Progress

Each day is a new day for our family.  When we get up we never know what to expect!! We spent the day cleaning the family room and doing odd jobs around the house.  It was nice not being on the run this weekend.  Abigail came down with the flu Sat. afternoon so we had to work around that. The …Continue reading →

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Worms & Treats

Wow, we are learning all sorts of things with Suzy!!  When we were in Oklahoma we found out that Suzy had tape worms (not the kind that can be passed on to humans).  As with everyone money is tight and when we looked into getting the stuff that she needed, it was very expensive.  A close friend suggested we try …Continue reading →

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Suzy & Squirrel

Another busy week.  It kicked off with having Beth and Jenny with us on Monday this week.  They visited Milton’s speech therapy session and Milton had a ball.  He would grab a card and run over to Chaka and Dot and show them the card and say the word.  It was so much fun to watch him show off to …Continue reading →

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Practicing

The real challenge of training a service dog is all the time that you put into working one on one with the dog when the trainer isn’t on hand!  Beth was sick this week so couldn’t make it but that didn’t stop our end of the work. We don’t have Suzy to the point yet of doing things without the …Continue reading →

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Trip to Silver Dollar City

A busy weekend but a fun filled one.  We left home Friday night for Branson, MO with a truck loaded with homeschool goodies.  Yes, this was our 10th annual Homeschool Weekend at Silver Dollar City. Suzy doesn’t like the truck as well because of the bigger jump to get into.  We are planning to get a ramp that will help …Continue reading →

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Restaurant Time

This has been a busy week for us.  A week ago today found our family pack our PT Cruiser and heading from West Plains to Oklahoma City.  This was our first LONG drive with Suzy.  Due to her car sickness we gave her a non drowsy Dramamine and it worked!  She didn’t get sick one time and seemed to enjoy …Continue reading →

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