One of the things I love about reading about your family is that you always end up reminding me that people are more complicated that they seem. I often forget, even with the people I love and see every day, that they are complicated or HOW they are complicated.

I'm preparing myself for dyslexic children. Mark has dyslexia and ADHD, and I truly believe that all my job experience and subsequent training in thinking about these issues were designed to prepare me for having a child with some of these challenges. Some day about five years from now, I'll probably ask you the name of those books again ;)

I bet it's easy for someone who reads your blog to think everything revolves around Aaron, even though you talk about EVERYONE a lot, because Aaron has so many remarkable qualities and does a lot of "who does that as a child?!" stuff, like working really hard to learn how to ride a unicycle, that he can come across on paper as this amazing wunderkid and people translate their own feelings about that into what they're reading as if you said it.

My one experience meeting your family in person was so interesting-- A&A hid in their room and Isaac and Jake climbed all over me, lol. Two very different reactions to my presence!