Notes to Noah’s Therapist

For your literary pleasure

Saturday, November 8th, 2008
by Terry

Noah reads “Clifford makes a friend”

Update on Noah’s Hair

Thursday, September 4th, 2008
by Terry

I have been asked no less than 25 times: Is it long enough to donate yet dad?

I love my son so very much, words cannot begin to express how deeply proud I am of him.

This is going to be a long ride.  No picture because he basically has no hair.  He got a short hair cut at the start of the summer.  It was just trimmed up 2 weeks ago.  Estimated time of delivery: 439 days from now.

Operators are standing by

Thursday, July 31st, 2008
by Terry

We just started to give Noah access to the television this summer.  I realize that I have been lax in monitoring what he watches.  I have locked him out of most channels except history and cartoon ones.  Given today’s TV standards I should still monitor more than that.  This morning I was hit with the TV influence upside the head.  I was getting some coffee when he blasted me with this bit of wisdom.  He asked if he could have breakfast and I told him that I would make it after I finished pouring my coffee.  To that he responded - “You have to act now because operators are standing by.”  What more could  do but to make him some waffles.

Questions from Noah

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
by Terry

Noah: Can I put my teddy bear shirt on the cat?

Me: What cat?  We have 2 Isis and Emily.

Noah: Emily.

Me: Emily has claws and although you probably could put it on her you would end up bloody.

Noah: So when are we getting her claws taken out, I can wait.

Lego Trauma Update

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
by Terry

After making the lego post a few days ago I got thinking about what I could do to make life easier for him when playing with all those legos.  After and little thought I came up with smaller bins.  Instead of one huge bin  I bought 2 smaller bins that are quite shallow.  He is currently on vacation with my parents but when he gets back I am sure he is going to like the change.

Lego trauma

Saturday, July 19th, 2008
by Terry

My son has a very extensive lego collection.  We keep his lego collection in 2 huge rubbermaid tubs.  I also keep in my living room a small table for him to play with them on.  Every time he dumps out the large bins to search for a part it takes a few hours of us prodding him to clean them up.  Today was the dawning of a new era!!  Searching for a door by pawing though them not wanting to dump them out he says to me, “Dad can you dump this out so I can find a door for my house?”.   Ok this seems harmless at first but you should know that the rule of the house is if you dump it out you clean it up.  This phrase I have repeated many times trying to get him to clean them up.  He gets points for that one but he still had to clean it all up.