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Six Years New Post Script

By the way, if you are wondering how we celebrated Leo's big day, wonder no more. He pretty much got his heart's desire... Unlimited access to the most wonderful, bestest, fabulous, infinitely appealing...The Upalator! Check it out and see if it was the greatest birthday thing ever, according to the Lion Man. ROAR! upulator from Anna DuMoulin on Vimeo .

Six Years New

So our little lion man is not so quite so little anymore! Tomorrow this guy turns six. Six years! Like the man himself says frequently: "wowsers." I find that as time rolls unchangeably on I have less and less words to say about being a special needs parent. When he was a baby and I was a newbie at all of this, and I thought (or acted like that anyway) that I had somehow gotten a compressed cliff notes chip that downloaded straight into my brain the moment that Leo was born. I literally became a master overnight and an expert professor over the time it took my section scar to heal. I had something to say about all of it! Anything on Hydro, Hydran, epilepsy, medications, surgeries, syndromes, birth defects; I was the go to gal. I even thought I knew all about Autism, vaccinations and even Downs syndrome. What the hell was I thinking? I don't actually think I was "thinking," I was coping. My way of dealing with a traumatic situation is apparen...