remember when she had all the curls?

Messy had her very first school picture day today
Originally uploaded by machris (Mary-Ann)

This is J when she was in Kindergarten, since she cut her hair the curls have not come back, but....we are starting to get some curls back :) here are pics of her with the curls and the non curls, but we got a book on curly hair, and we do believe these curls are starting to make a comeback :)

a couple more layers

Tonight I went to the drug store to pick up My daughter's prescription. I pulled into the parking lot my brain thinking only about this being a step I had not thought of, My daughter is going to be taking a medication for her behavior, How much denial can you be in when your kid is taking medications for her autistic behavior, and Epilepsy? I pulled into the first empty spot, next to an enormous white van that towered over my mini van. I started to get out of my van, and I felt very uncomfortable, like that big van was going to swallow me up! I got back in and felt a bit silly about it, but I backed out of that spot and drove a little further into the middle of the parking lot where my car had no neighbors at all Silly I know but I told myself it would be safer to keep myself in full view....right?

then I went into the store, I usually like going to this store, it's open 24 hours so I like to go late at night and take my time perusing the isles, but this time was different....there right in the isle I was wanting to go down was one of those floor polishing machines, and the man was pushing it right toward me, and it was loud. My first thought was that something was broken on the machine and it was louder than normal, but I looked at the other people and they didn't seem phased. OK this must be how my kids feel, when they get overwhelmed by something that doenst seem to bother anyone else---I felt like he was going to suck me up in that machine, it was all I could do to keep myself from running away from it! WORSE was that he wasn't making sense, that man was pushing it up isle 2 and then he went over to isle 7, and then isle 4....I could not plan to avoid him and his loud machine! I tried to shop I was in the summer isle and checking out the bubbles I'm thinking my kids would love one of these big wands that makes the mega bubbles HERE COMES THE LOUD MACHINE....so I walk over to the section that has cups and pick up one of those ceramic coffee cups that looks like a disposable paper cup....Ive been looking at this for awhile, most coffee travel mugs are made of plastic and I just don't like drinking from plastic LOL HERE COMES THE NOISE MACHINE....So I go over to the magazine section flipping through First magazine to see if they published my picture....its sad really that they paid me for a picture but did not use it....why does that make me sad? I don't know I got my 100 bucks for it LOL HERE COMES THE NOISE MACHINE!!!! ARGH!!!!! That is it I am just going to go and get my prescriptions and go home Yikes there is a line and yeah here comes that loud machine again! "why is this not bothering you?" I wanted to ask the woman in front of me. I held my tongue and waited my turn, finally I got my prescriptions and I high tailed it LOL
of course somehow I bought some bubble stuff, a ceramic cup and a magazine, but HAHA maybe my kids do get their issues from me. oh did I also mention I got a bar of chocolate :) mmmmmmmmm