Romance.

I really think that in the entire three years I have been with Todd this word has not been present. We don’t go out to dinner very often, don’t go to movies and we certainly don’t double date often, if at all. Our kind of romance includes head butting, getting poked in the eye, kneed in the jaw or an elbow to the jaw.(never try to tickle a man’s feet. It ends in serious injuries for you.)  Seriously. We are the clumsiest couple ever. We’re pretty lucky we haven’t killed each other yet. But the biggest romance killer is this:

                I stupidly got Carsyn a Twilight Turtle for Christmas last year. He freakin LOVES this thing. It’s a turtle, but the shell of it has little stars and a moon cut out so at night you can turn it on and choose between blue green or amber colored stars. It sets up a whole night sky on your ceiling and it’s really neat. (It even has constellations!)  Until Carsyn decides he wants to move the ceiling. This turtle is set on the side of Carsyn’s bed, and as most of you know our place isn’t that big right now. We will be putting an addition on for Carsyn’s room and our room in spring so until then we are all in the same room. (talk about a romance killer in itself) So then Todd and I decide we will be cute and stare at the stars together and it’s all really relaxing. Until the ceiling moves.. Carsyn has a thing with kicking the side of his bed and in turn making the stars and moon jiggle on the ceiling. (This results in a major headache and severe nausea on my part.) Carsyn thinks that mommy getting up to dry heave for ten minutes is the funniest thing he has ever seen. Coincidentally so does Todd. (in fact he decided last night he would wiggle his arms and legs to go along with the stars jarring around on the ceiling. You don’t know how bad I wanted to smack him.)  So in the end I no longer want to kiss Todd. Sorry dear, but I’m saving you from a possibly scarring experience here.

                By the way, these pokes and jabs to the face that I get are NOT always because I have tried tickling him. I may not get it the first ten times but after a while I figured out how to keep my face away from the swinging limbs. These pokes and jabs to the face are just from us being plain old clumsy together. Really. It’s that bad. If anyone took a look at my legs they would think he beats the crap out of me. Thankfully Todd has never and will never lay a hand on me though. 

Carsyn does a lot of interesting things, since he doesn't behave like "normal" kids do he has his own way of playing. this will be next times topic. 

until next time <3

"Children need models more than they need critics." -JOSEPH JOUBERT

I found this quote and thought it was perfect. not only in the sense of others judging how kids are behaving but also for when people judge the child's disability. You can take it either way. I just thought about all the times that people have judged Carsyn's abilities or said he needed to be better.