Luke and Kate’s self help skills have been hit or miss over the years. In the area of personal hygiene, it’s mostly miss. So we’ve fallen into a routine of me showering with Luke and Cathy showering with Kate. Sometimes if she wakes early, or wakes while Luke and I are in the shower, Kate […]

Kate has been doing this thing to the other three of us: When we are using the toilet, she’ll come up and stand there until we’re either done or move without finishing. Sometimes if Cathy or I go to the other toilet in the house, she’ll go with us and stand by that one, too. […]

Since we have two biological children who aren’t identical twins diagnosed with autism, Cathy and I have volunteered for a lot of genetics studies of autism over the years. We’ve also blamed each other’s family (which isn’t healthy) and mostly blamed each other for the autism (which really isn’t healthy). But the marriage endures, mainly […]

I’ve written before about how Kate often presents her hands, or face, or head for Cathy or me to kiss. Well, during this past week, after I kissed her on the face, she wanted me to kiss her again but tried to move my mustache out of the way first. Cathy saw it happen and […]