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You guys kill me.

Sylv - LOL, I'll drink to that!

Peace,

- Neo

Hee, hee!

Maybe people are PUSHING you down the stairs. Hmmm, SSB?

Maybe you should stop the drinking. That will often make me fall down stairs.

You two have such interesting conversations in your house

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I'm jealous of your talent!

Syl, if you can fall down a flight of stairs without spilling a drink, you must have some pretty nifty wrists as well.

yes, but can you finish your drink during the fall on the way down the stairs? Now that would be talent!

IS the drink in a toddler sippy cup or are we talking full on Martini glass?

Shamus, aw, thanks.

Neo, I'm way ahead of you!

Elizabeth, we joke about that now. Thanks for giving us material!

Wendy A, yeah, that's beside the point.

Pink Lady, we keep each other laughing.

Sierrabella, I inherited from my dad.

DrMax, they are very flexible.

Cookie Christine, naw, I never perfected that. I think my dad can though.

Shannon, now that gave me an interesting image! I'm not much of a martini girl. Beer glass.

Ankles so strong, anything goes
Skate on thin ice or Wisconsin snow flows

Dance in the evenings to jazzy blue beat
SSB’s in time with SSL’s dainty dance feet

Nobody cares if ankles are strong
Balance life to laugh a whole life long

I've got small joints and I'm jealous.

You have balance, just not when drinking. =D

I can't believe you can fall down a flight of stairs and not spill a drink. This leads me to suspect that you have antigravity cups in your house, which probably accounts for your good balance while holding them.

I think he only bellows OH YEAH when he geets to do the inserting. If it's the other way around, it's more of an OH NO...

Just my guess.

Wait- so they really put kool aid in suppositories? Can we request a flavor?

I prefer grape.

I wonder if it would then dye...uh...stuff up there...so that the next time you went #2...it'd be purple!

awesome purple poop!

That's funny!

Oh, God, I'll never be able to down that aisle at the grocery store again without cracking up! Thanks for the great imagery.

I better get me some Kool-Aid stock, I hear bio-tech companies are hot right now.

Evil science chick: if you eat a lot of something with dye in it, like food coloring, it will definitely dye your poop. Try blue frosting, for instance. But you have to eat A LOT.

So... does that mean that there is kool-aid in suppositories???

You just wrecked some childhood memories of mine. Birthday parties, friends, and Koolaid.

I heard the Cool Aid guy finally met a reinforced concrete wall. He managed to get out "OH YE..." then his red glass body shattered.
It was a mess.

ill be thinking of that everytime i look at a package of Kool aid now

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He likes it, you know he does! He's bursting through the walls to get his suppositories!!

oh dear, never use the term "bursting through the walls" and suppositories in the same senstence. It's so...bad.

Kind of gives a whole new meanning to this product.

Derek, OH YEAH!

Shannon, I think flavor at that point is, uh, pointless.

ESC, they use pink for girls and blue for boys.

Laurie, :))

OldRoses, it does give that effect.

DrMax, that's a good idea.

Elizabeth, we had an unfortunate incident with too much food dye once. Ugh!

Wendy A, aw! I would have thought it would have enhanced those memories!

Shamus, was it that same damn wall that did in Humpty?

PinkLady, heheheh!

Lyvvie, yeah, that's what I was thinking.

SSB, THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!

While we're on the topic of Kool-Aid, why did they stop making Mountain Berry Punch? That was the best flavor EVER!!

I loved Purplesaurus Rex!

Tayster, that was one of my favorite flavors too! I had forgotten about that, in fact, I didn't realize that they had stopped making it. Those Bastards!

SSB, Purplesaurus Rex rocks!

Hadn't had the misfortune of seeing "master of disguise" but agreed that "producers" is, in a word, excremental

"Excremental"
Now, that's definitely a word to jot down and re-use.

I'd heard bad things about the Producers, and now it's definitely off my "to rent" list.

Wow, it muct be bad when you can't even have fun laughing at it.

must*

Have you guys seen the Mel Brooks version? Very, very funny. I refuse to see the new one because I know that it can't possibly live up to the original.

I hardly watch movies anymore. It is such a waste of time when the movie is so bad. Hollywood some real bombs out there. Thanks for saving me from renting it.

We couldn't even get to the part with Will Farrell, but ever since 'Bewitched', his spell over me has been broken.

Reel Fanatic, welcome to my blog! That should be on the "wheel of adjectives" they have in that Sprint commercial.

Shannon, we might try to watch it when we are REALLY BORED or drunk just because we would like to see Hilter sing and dance.

AG, I'm a huge fan of MST 3K, but I don't even think that THEY could make this movie funny.

OldRoses, I love Mel Brooks movies. I might try that.

Wendy A, this was suppose to be sophisticated too, but it just sucks.

SSB, I didn't think that Bewitched was all that bad.

You and SSB have good taste. I taped Master of Disguise for my kid when we got a free HBO weekend and I was stunned how truely unfunny it was. I have heard similar complaints about the new Producers (love the original though.) If you really want to test your mettle, I might suggest Super Babies-Baby Geniuses 2. The horror...the horror.

Wow, and i thought The Producers was supposed to be really good. I'm bummed out now.

DrMax, it was on TV at my parent's house. 5 minutes was all I could take of Baby Geniuses! And that was pushing it!

Lyvvie, I haven't seen the Mel Brooks one, but it sounds like that is the one to see.

What does JD have to say about what's going on and the teachers' concerns?

I think that school staff should be tested to see how good they are at understanding kids. Who are they comparing JD to? The cheerleaders? Do they not appreciate the uniqueness of each child? If someone slips out of stereotype mold he/she is in need of testing? Since JD is fine everywhere else, you make an excellent point regarding the school environment. Something is amiss in that school.

Woohoo - it sucks when strangers try and tell you your kid isn't normal.

Nerdiness is the best. Nazis are disabled.

Look out for the booze-puking shark!

I am really glad that JD doesn't have an IEP anymore. Not actually having ever met him, from the way you describe him, he doesn't sound like he's got any kind of behaviour disorder - and really, the school didn't seem to be even trying to work in partnership with you on this, so tough noogies to them!

It's hard being shy. I was always pretty shy through school too. I guess I eventually learned not to take it all so seriously but it took a while. Hang in there JD, Syl and SSB.

Agree with Dramx. Hard if he's shy, especially if has a high intellect and feels alienated.

Best wishes

Public education is made for the norm. Any child that is different just doesn't seem to get accomidated properly. I'd suggest a change in schools.

Shannon, we actually did talk to him. In fact, when I was in the meeting I was thinking, "Why isn't JD in here discussing this with us?" None of the school people had even talked to JD about their concerns. I told them it was the best way to find out why he is behaving the way he is.

JD says that he thinks that he just needs time to figure things out. I told him what they had planned for him and he thought that was a little invasive and unnatural. I agreed.

Isn't this the second time they've brought you in? Sounds like a bizarre school. Can you change, and does he want to change schools? Isn't there at least one teacher who is behind him? I was TOTALLY anti-social in middle-school, as I said here before, AND I got bad grades, but I was not stigmatized as disabled. At least I had some teachers who believed in me. How totally annoying.

Figure things out- sounds like JD's on the right track. Sounds like his teachers would have done well to try to figure something out for once in their lives. Stick it to 'em!

That school sounds a little strange to me.I think i'd be looking for another school.Its the first time ive heard that being shy is a behaverial problem.

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I ran out of time commenting earlier.

Flubberwinkle, it is almost as if they have already made up their minds about him and are looking for anything that backs up their opinions. In fact, when we said that we'd work on this with him over the summer, they assumed that we meant professional counselling. He doesn't need to see a psychologist, he just needs to get out more!! Geez!!

Shamus, yeah, I don't want him too be normal. And I certainly don't need the school try to make him "normal"!

AG, "Nazis are disabled" sounds like a great song name. And I LOVE NERDS!!

SSB, I was thinking of just that when I wrote the title.

The Doc, I got the feeling that they weren't wanting to work with us; they just wanted us to go along with whatever they thought. I let them have the whole box of Tough Noogies!

DrMax, JD needs time to learn that skill. I don't think that I really did until I was later in high school.

Lindsay, the one thing that we took from the meetings was that JD does need help getting his confidence up. We will work on that this summer.

Wendy A, we can't switch schools - there is only one- and it wouldn't make a difference anyway. They are all pretty much the same. That's why we homeschooled.

Elizabeth, the first meeting was to talk about what we should do to gather info for the decision. This meeting was to discuss the results of the info gathering and the decision that was made. We can't change schools and he wants to keep going to public school, so we will wait until I see trouble.

Pink Lady, as I said, they considered that a major problem when I was going to school in the 70s, so this isn't new. I think that it is even more of an issue now since all those school shootings. They are looking out for weird loners.

I agree with you- it makes no sense why no one asked JD what he was thinking, what he felt, or why he acted the way he did. DUH!!! Some teacher out there has got to be on his side- if he charmed both my aunt and my cousin (a speach pathologist for children!), someone out there's gotta be rooting for him also.

Seems like so many teachers want to be the hero who discover the problem with a kid who's not like the others, but sometimes kids just aren't textbook.

Well done for you and the Hubs for sticking to what you know is right.

Happy Mother's day!

Hang in there, Sylvana. I feel your pain. It always killed me that people who only interacted (in an artificial environment) a few hours a day for nine months of the year thought they knew my daughter better than I did who actually lived with her! For all the other commenters: It's not just that school. I live in NJ. My daughter was in two separate school systems here (we moved) and it was the same shit as Sylvana is going through in both towns we lived in.

Shannon, they all love him, they just don't really understand him. At least we had the school administrator mostly on our side.

Lyvvie, they were trying to impress upon us how critical it was that these "problems" get nipped in the bud early before they were "set for life". They are all in a panic because they think if something isn't done RIGHT NOW he will be ruined for life.

Weirdos.

AG, hey thanks!

OldRoses, I would think that most people would remember what school was like. I do. It hasn't really changed much since I was in school except there are more disorders to label kids with and more "heroes", as Lyvvie calls them, that want to save someone.
One thing I remember vividly from the last meeting was a statement to the effect that it was the school's job to make sure that the kids were ready for the workforce and learned how to be productive members of society. Which workforce? Whose definition of productive? Silly me, I thought the school's job was to make sure that my son got an education that would help him make his own decisions. OH WELL!

Sy- too bad about switching schools, but I'm sure it'll work out. Happy belated mother's day. :-)