Not here. Denim jacket with jeans is very common even in winter (ours is mild). We see all kinds of color for denim jackets; red, peach, yellow, white, faded blue, indigo. For jeans we see faded blue, indigo, white, black, faded black. The youngsters here rock the look with a cropped exercise top, cropped jacket, ripped jeans. @crazyforlatin I think denim on denim was already mainstream in the 80s. I still have my clothes from high school (80s) and college (90s) days. My husband does too. Lots of denim shirts at Levi’s outlet.

We're going to back to Scotland. We're staying in the Highlands and up north this time.

Campsite reservation begins at 4, so no rush. It’s about an hour drive. I may go earlier if I am ready, just to enjoy some quiet time in nature elsewhere in the park.

I have never slept with stuffed toys even as a child, and I don't have any. But I do love to hold them and feel them, so I have definitely been tempted on occasion to buy one occasionally, just to hold and feel--I guess a kind of sensory calming thing. I just don't want anything else lying around the house, or I would.

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Is it still a no-no to wear a different color jean jacket from the color of your jeans? Say a white denim jacket with blue jeans. I have a blush color jacket that I love but almost never wear because when I wear pants, I'm usually wearing blue jeans.

20 min on the treadmill this morning.

Good morning! I was up again and fell back asleep just in time for my alarm to go off. Oh well. I've made up the guest bed and now have a few minutes to get dressed and help load lumber back into the van to take it to the scoutmaster's house - her dh will get the wood cut to size for us. They are also having a yard sale so hopefully they are selling some awesome gear. Meanwhile dd25/sil are driving up for the weekend to visit. Tonight Other SIL has a senior presentation. I can't remember what time. Last night during orchestra rehearsal I practiced a medley (on mandolin) with the fiddle ensemble and felt like a real musician 😁 Coffee!!

Oy Toto.

'Cuz it boggles the mind what one woman with a missing puppy can accomplish.

Ah ha! I will start looking at avatars for stuffties portraits.

I’ve never really cared much about fashion styles. If something fits and is clean are what I mainly care about. Also, I am of the age that I expect to be mocked by younger generations for my fashion choices, but that is ok, because in my head I am doing the same thing to them.

That is adorable!!

Gastro symptoms can be allergy, too. It’s not just anaphylaxis.

Morning, Happy Friday. It's been a heck of a week but most things are resolved to somewhat satisfactory conclusions. dd had a 6 month follow-up with her eye doctor because he was concerned about her optic nerve (thought it was thin) and that her eyesight got worse somewhat rapidly. She had her follow-up Monday and he referred her to a specialist and she had that appointment Thursday. So three days of worrying about optic nerve atrophy and all that could bring. Turns out there's nothing to worry about. She has a slight anomaly but the doctor thinks it's likely she was born with it. The "rapid" change in vision could just be due to growth or tired eyes or just about anything. One of my teacher's quit over a disagreement we had over how to handle something. Her child had an issue with another child in class - not in her class. She wanted me to give her the parent's phone number to call the parent but as a teacher, she should not be talking to other parents as a parent. But she also never reported the issue to me or the other teacher or said anything about it and things supposedly happened months ago. (this is a child that I am 100% sure she does not like, as well). I wanted to make sure all out discussions were recorded so wanted to talk in person or we had some text discussion, but didn't want to talk on the phone. She quit over that (supposedly, I'm sure there was more). Without her own children, we are able to merge the students left in her class with the students left in the other teacher's class so can finish the year easily enough. Then my mother was evidently taken to the hospital the other night, not admitted but needs follow up for digestive issues. I'm her emergency contact but she didn't want me bothered "so late at night" (10pm) so never told me. She told my brother who lives 3,000 miles away and he told me because he thought I should know. Tonight we're taking dd out for her (30th!!!) birthday to Legal Seafood.

Jealous

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DS made him all by himself when he was six. He didn’t/doesn’t work with his hands *at all* so it was truly amazing. It has a face on both sides ❤️ Monster is tucked in to the couch blankets ready for my nap. I’m so excited lol.

Not since probably elementary school. I didn't know adults sleeping with stuffies was a thing, even though I know many pets wind up in the people beds.

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You need a developmental optometrist as she likely has developmental vision problems. Also get an OT eval to check for retained reflexes. When the primitive/neonatal reflexes are retained, it glitches development of the visual reflexes, leading to developmental vision problems. If you get a good OT eval and someone to integrate reflexes, you could do that for 3-6 months then test vision fully with the developmental optometrist to see if things are back on track. And the jumping I think is saccades. COVD is the org to find a developmental optometrist.

I don't but did until I married ex and he got bent out of shape. I now realize I can do what I want but the habit isn't there. I am going to forward the article to dh. He used to constantly roll his eyes when the kids (16 and 18) buy stuffies. They are both into them and have many, some from when they were younger but quite a few bought more recently. I tell him to keep quiet and they are allowed to like whatever it is they like. He has gotten better, although the $50 huge (body pillow size) stuffed axolotl I bought for dd over the weekend did cause a slight eye roll. But she has anxiety and I'm trying to encourage her to speak up when she wants something. In addition to the axolotl, dd has a slightly smaller (only about 24") weighted axolotl, and a 24" lobster she got in Maine that all live on her bed, named Macaroni (lobster), Cheese (weighted axolotl) and Loaf (new axolotl). I don't sleep with any stuffies but I have a teddy bear I was given when I was 9 and in the hospital. At work I have 3 axolotls (one a gift from a student), a turtle with babies one of my employees knit for me, a stuffed chromodoris (sea slug), three peas in a pod (gift from dd), a bat that has snap bracelet wings, and a penguin, a frog, and hedgehog that were "hand-me-downs" from the kids. So, none in/on my bed but I definitely like stuffies.

I have seen a link with so much TMI. 😳

I did j til marriage and now use an extra pillow with the occasional stuffie loaned from a child.

Bingo. Combine LIPS with your speech therapy methodology. The SLP can do it or you can. My ds had moderate/severe verbal apraxia and the language development is a separate piece. The praxis is the motor planning. You still have auditory processing, narrative language, retained reflexes, syntax, myofunctional issues, so many things to deal with. Fwiw, we now use multiple SLPs to make sure we hit all the angles of language. Each SLP specializes in something or does something particularly well so we use 3-4. No one person knows everything. We did LIPS + Barton and got my ds reading but then he was hyperlexic and dyslexic. Then we added the work on syntax, sigh, which improved the language compression. The higher the IQ, the more challenging it can be to assess language development. My ds *appeared* to have intact language but was scripting. At age 10 he failed the preschool SPELT expressive language test. Most tests give models and use multiple choice, which higher IQ kids can fake their way through. (google sensitivity vs. specificity in testing) Without models and multiple choice, his issues became obvious. Maybe you'll have none of that, but you might. Apraxia is usually comorbid with much more going on.