Rare Pic of James Sleeping with Eyes Closed

I am not sure if I have ever mentioned this, but James sleeps with his eyes open. It’s kind of creepy. We’re guessing it is because of his neurological deficits. Today Stacy happened to snap a pic of James sleeping with his eyes closed! Could this be a side effect…

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“iPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy” Article

Stacy found a pretty cool article from the New York Times about a boy, Owen, with a debilitating motor-neuron disease and how he is able to use an iPad an iPad to do something he has never been able to do before…turn the pages of a book. This is something…

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Great News About Infantile Spasms

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Help Us Get James an iPad

With the Christmas season just around the corner, Stacy and I would love to get James an iPad filled with wonderful applications for children with special needs. We hope something like this will help James come out of his shell and show us that he wants to learn. The only…

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November is Epilepsy Awareness Month

Did you know that epilepsy is the 3rd most common neurological disorder (behind headaches and strokes) and affects around 2.5 million Americans? It's been estimated that 10% of the American population will experience a seizure in their lifetime. Every year there are nearly 181,000 newly diagnosed epilepsy causes in the…

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Happy Halloween

James’ “baby theme” is monkeys. His room is decorated with monkeys. He has monkey blankets. He even has monkey onesies. As a matter of fact, my nickname for him is ‘Monkey Butt’ because he has a set of jammies with a big monkey on the butt. Last year James was…

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Family Photos October 2010

Stacy met a woman at a local special needs play group who does photography on the side and offered to do a photo shoot of us. I won’t post them all here…there are too many of them…but I will share some of the better ones.          …

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