Stubborn

I'm trying to wean my daughter from sleeping with her brother. For one thing, it's making him cranky. For another, he has been having a hard time dealing with even the tiniest frustrations and, for yet another, he is taking some of that aggression out on his sister, which I cannot allow to continue. However, reasoning with an autistic child is...challenging.

So, I'm encouraging her, as a step to sleeping in her own bed, to sleep in my room. My children do not like to do anything on command. I told her she could sleep in the easy chair or the bed, but she needed to settle down. Here's what she did.

It's going to be a long fourteen more years until she graduates.

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Roxy, the Glorious

For those of you wondering what my other daughter looked like, since I haven't posted anything about her for AGES, here's a sampling from December.

I'll try to get more of both Alex and Roxy in the near future.

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Daddy's Little Helper Part II

Daddy's little helper was on the job today, too. Today, she decided Lee just couldn't quite feed himself today.

At lunch, she pulled out the pretty shreds of purple cabbage from his salad and fed them to him.

Come dinner, she started by feeding him pieces of steak from his plate, the macaroni and cheese from her plate, then pieces of broccoli from her brother's plate.

I think she had more fun putting food in his mouth than feeding herself.

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