Some stuff about me and the family

Nick was in a little show today at school.  I did not see it but Sal and Melody and  Anthony did.  Sal said he did real good.  Played a tambourine I think.  Nick is my Grandson....and he is handicapped.  Nick, we never called him Nicky.  He was Nickolas for a while and then Anthony came along and shortened it to NICK.  Nick has something called  Apraxia of Speech.  Everything he says comes out garbled.  I used to say that he cannot talk.  But recently, I have realized that he CAN talk,  we just don't understand him.  So maybe its us and not him.  We are the ones who are wrong and he is alright.  This is why I put sad up there where it says Mood.  I get this way sometimes.  I can be watching TV and I can feel the sadness building inside.  That is when I just sit and cry to myself.  Nobody else knows or notices.  I do it at times when I am driving my little school bus.  When you do a lot of miles, you think a lot.  And a lot of my sadness is for Anthony.  He is the second  of my daughters two kids.  Nick is 12 and Anthony is nine.  We tend to think that he doesn't understand a lot about Nicks condition but come'on,  at nine, I wondered about a lot of things in this world.  So he knows what is going on.  But I feel bad for Anthony because he has been robbed of a brother.  Two brothers three years apart.  They should be calling each other names.....they should be discussing ghosts and wrestlers and football players.  They should be laughing at body parts.  Cause they ARE boys.  But I think he does worry.  Today he asked Melody if Nick would live with her and Daddy forever when he gets big?  A nine year old shouldn't have to worry about that but kids do.   So that is a little about 2 of my Grands.  Son has 2 also....and I will tell about them soon.

 

 

This is Anthony.....what a cutie patootie

This is one of my favorites  Nick and Mommy

 

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