Yes, it’s a very sturdy, orthopaedic stander. It will help stretch Jon’s hamstrings and hopefully inhibit further progress of his scoliosis. Jon did some standing in class this past year, and it turns out he’d prefer to stand and learn than sit. It was especially effective for teaching math, and we walked into a class …

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The other day, we took delivery of this, and then learned—kind of—how to carefully adjust it. It’s more complex than you guess. But what’s it for?

Yesterday morning Jon graduated from Sunny View Public School in a lovely ceremony attended by students, staff, friends and family (and a surprising number of non-municipal politicians). A bagpiper leading the presenters and graduates into the auditorium. Each student was lead in by a chaperone—Jon’s was his teacher, Denis. Jon looks like a gibbon in …

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If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t posted in awhile, much of the reason is contained in this post. Over the last few months we’ve been going through the rather difficult process of finding a suitable high school for Jon, and it’s taken up more of our time and energy than you’d think. Part 1: …

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3/29/2010 I had a great weekend. It was the morning. On Sunday morning I had breakfast. For breakfast I had cereal. I had Cheerios in my cereal. After breakfast I brushed my teeth. I did Wii. I also did computer. I ripped some songs in Wire Tap Studio. I put the songs on my iPod …

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3/8/2010 I had a great weekend. My friend, Virginia came over for dinner. I showed Virginia the Millionaire game. I didn’t show Virginia the YouTube weather. I had dinner. For dinner, I had lemon chicken. After dinner I had dessert. For dessert I had ice cream. After dessert Daddy watched the Oscars. The Oscars were …

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