Firstly, we decided that we aren’t moving for another year. We just want to have more time to find the perfect home to buy, and that was proving to be more difficult than we thought.

Secondly, we are starting to make some improvement with baby A. Quite some time ago his pediatrician recommended we get him some speech therapy because he just hasn’t been talking much. At his speech evaluation they recommended an occupational therapy evaluation also, because they thought he may have sensory integration dysfunction. After that the pediatrician also recommended we get him tested for autism. Our autism test has gotten pushed back until the end of April, but we have done all of the other things. The good news is that I really don’t think he is autistic. The reason his doctor wants us to check is because speech disorders (they think he has receptive and expressive language disorders - I don’t think he has any trouble receptively though) well the speech problems and sensory problems are a big part of autism, although he doesn’t seem to have any social impairment which is the defining factor in an autism diagnosis. Getting too medical for ya? Well, I must explain what sensory integration dysfunction is also.

Your senses are like a scale, if you get too much with one you don’t get enough with some others. My son A is very visual. Because he is constantly processing so much visual information his body is lacking in what he gets through touch, or just how his body responds to his movements. Basically, when we would start to run for example our body would feel that pressure and exercise. His body has a hard time feeling that, so he continually is in motion, always trying to push himself further so that his body gets the stimulation it needs. With occupational therapy his body will start to get what it needs (through lots of rough and busy active play). Already I have seen that once we get his body satisfied with movement etc. he clams down so much and is able to pay more attention to books, toys, and speech. It’s funny that it’s such a cascading effect, because he is so visual, his body feels less, which constantly keeps him searching for stimulation for his body, which keeps him from being able to focus on things like speech.

So, I am hoping with this therapy, and working with him on speech, and helping him to do the right activities to get his body on track, all his problems should work themselves out. I do hope we can improve very soon. I would love for him to not have to deal with this once he gets into school. Finding the right school for him will also be more difficult.

So much to say. Have you ever seen a dust cloud or a sandstorm? Here in Georgia this week I have seen clouds of pollen blowing across the landscape. Before living here I had no idea that there were places in this country where you were warned not to go outside if you have allergies, or worse warned not to leave home when the city pollution is so bad that you have smog warnings. Thank goodness we kind of live in the country anyway.

Soon I will be getting back to normal here. There are SO many things I have been wanting to post, so many photos and videos to show everyone. I will be updating my websites also in the next few weeks and get my photography back on track. Anyway, I apologize for the downtime and hopefully it won’t continue much longer.

Hey, I almost forgot - it was just our 4 year anniversary!

Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton

I promise I will be posting some updates here soon, so much is happening, and I have a lot to do.

“The last time Jaeyaena Beuraheng saw her seven children was in 1982 when she left south Thailand on one of her regular shopping trips across the border to nearby Malaysia.

She never returned, and police later told her family that she had apparently been killed in a traffic accident.

In fact, Jaeyaena had simply taken the wrong bus home — an error that would have been easy to fix except that she only speaks the local dialect of Malay known as Yawi, according to officials at the homeless shelter where the 76-year-old has lived for two decades.”

Thai woman tells of 25-year detour after catching wrong bus - Yahoo! News

Escaped Chimp Gets Snack, Cleans Bathroom, Chimp Escapes at Little Rock Zoo, Gets a Snack, and Cleans the Bathroom - CBS News

The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped yesterday into a service area when a zookeeper opened a door to her sleeping quarters, unaware the animal was still inside.

As keepers tried to woo Judy back into her cage, she rummaged through a refrigerator where chimp snacks are stored. She opened kitchen cupboards, pulled out juice and soft drinks and took a swig from bottles she managed to open.

Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, so she may have been familiar with housekeeping chores. Judy wrung out a sponge and scrubbed down the fridge.

It took a couple of tries, but the zoo sedated the chimp, who fell asleep on top of the refrigerator with half a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread she had pulled out of the freezer.

Male Panda Said Too Fat to Have Sex, Thai Authorities Say Male Panda Too Fat to Have Sex With His Female Partner - CBS News

“Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him,” said the zoo’s chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul, adding that Chuang Chuang weighed 331 pounds while Lin Hui is only 253 pounds.

The diet plan is the latest in an unsuccessful and often strange campaign by zoo officials to get the two bears to mate.

They have held a mock wedding, announced plans to separate the two to spark a little romance and even talked of introducing panda porn videos of other pandas mating to get the pair in the mood.

“When Carol Lopez let her Labrador retriever out for the morning the dog had an unusual number of tree trunks to attend to. Surrounding her aboveground backyard pool Lopez found 37 used Christmas trees.”

Oiled prisoner slips out of Norway jail - Yahoo! News
“OSLO, Norway - A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody — literally — by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday.”

Now, sorry to sidestep from the actual point of this post, but a new great show like this couldn’t come at a more perfect time for me. The OC Officially Cancelled!

“Behind Closed Doors

the Dark side of Fame

Comes out

to Play

You’re not invited

but She

Can get you inside”

- Text displayed during the pilot’s opening. Get more photos, wallpaper, and dirt on this show at the official website for the show FX Dirt.

“Courteney Cox stars as Lucy Spiller, the hard-driving Editor-In-Chief of tabloid “Dirt” and “Now” magazines. (She also Executive Produces Dirt under the banner of production company Coquette, established by Courteney and her husband David Arquette.) Lucy has a maniacal dedication to finding the truth. With the help of Don Konkey (Ian Hart), a schizophrenic paparazzo blessed with a genius for getting the money shot, Lucy exposes the hidden truth behind celebrity lives – and also determines their fate.” - FX Dirt

This new show has gotten really mixed reviews. IMDB doesn’t have much info on the show, but instead a lot of users complaining about how Courteney Cox is miss cast (and I couldn’t disagree more.) I generally trust reviews on IMDB, but as it is referenced as “MoviePoopShoot.com” by Ben Affleck in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and I think you should take my word for it that this is a great show. All atcing aside (and the acting is great, and Courteney looks phenomenal also) the thing that really keeps my watching intently is the visualization. I really wish that FX was in HD because this show is beautiful. Every frame looks like a HDR - high dynamic range imaging for you non-photographers. It is really an interesting and different tv program in every way.

My favorite character in the show is strangely the schizo photog. It’s funy that he is the one that you sympathize with (although if not him I’m not sure who you would feel bad for). Poor guy hears voices, sees blood raining down on him, and thinks that the bad things he’s done with this job cause the cancer growing in his cat. Despite all of this he is rather light hearted, and fun to watch.

I won’t get much into the stories plot, it is up to you to watch and find out for yourself. It is nothing like any show I have ever seen, and I can’t wait to see more.