Comments for Traveling Monkeys http://travelingmonkeys.org We're here. We're there. We have big ears. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:38:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by cathy http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-674 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:38:53 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-674 turn suffering into art, that’s the way!

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by RiderWriter http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-673 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:12:42 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-673 Oh, dear Lord in heaven (yeah, Him, the one next to the daggers)… I agree that this place simply was too good to be true, in terms of blog fodder! I would have been DYING. First of laughter, then of frostbite. It reminds me of a home we saw when househunting. My husband practically had to carry me out, I was so helpless from hysterics. If it was tacky – they owned it. But I do believe this place takes the cake! Thank you for all the fabulous photos. I wish camera phones had been invented back when I was in that house, but the images in my mind still crack me up.

We have stayed in some epically bad, never-to-be-forgotten accommodations. This adventure will definitely go down in the annals of your family history! (Hope the all-American motel was at least warm. That would have been a deal-breaker for me. I’ve got a blanket over my head right now my own BR is so cold!)

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by deannanmc http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-672 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:07:53 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-672 Thanks for your thoughts! I’m glad he’s on a good track now and that you’ve found someone to address your concerns. We’ve conferred with a few professionals and with Maggie’s preschool teachers; the general consensus is that Maggie is more or less fine but has certain coping mechanisms that are her own. Usually we see the scripting when she is under a lot of stress, and her spontaneous speech has come a long way as her language acquisition improves. After the ballet class incident this past summer we tried again with a Spanish class, where she’s thriving, and she’s doing much better with kids her own age after about six months in preschool. She’s as introverted as the day is long, but so am I so I don’t consider it a problem. :)

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by Alexandra http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-671 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:49:41 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-671 Hi. I don’t remember how I found your website, but I’ve been reading you for a while. Certain things you have mentioned your daughter does, sounds so similar to my son, and what you just wrote here is another thing that my son used to do – talk in sentences that he heard on the TV or books-. We live in ATL, and for a long time I had the feeling that there was something different about my son, but most pediatricians dismissed my concerns. Finally we decided to take him to a developmental pediatrician who first told us he had Asperger’s (high functional autism) but now they’ve changed the diagnosis to PDD-NOS, because his social skills have come a LONG way since then. We started therapies when he was 3.5 yrs old. He is 5 now, currently in Kindergarten in a regular classroom doing better than we expected, and having good friends, playdates, etc. To give you an idea, he used to scream his head off when people were clapping or singing happy birthday or just talking in loud voices. He would get upset when surrounded by lots of kids and he was not socially capable of playing with other kids when he was 3.5, he would repeat back what we said (echolalia), he did not want to eat certain textures in food or he would get upset by the tags on his clothes (sensory dysorder). I wish somebody have told us this when he was younger, because before his diagnosis I though it was all in my head.

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by deannanmc http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-670 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:21:38 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-670 Ah, but per the rules, we did not go to bed at 7:30. Closer to 11pm. :D

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by deannanmc http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-669 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:14:19 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-669 There was frost in it at several points.

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by deannanmc http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-668 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:38:35 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-668 Oh, that’s why I took all those photos. I knew no one would believe it without proof. I think M2 is staring at the doll display in the first photo, actually. SPOOKY.

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by Laurel Sabera http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-667 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:18:07 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-667 Is Maggie staring at the sexy daggers or Jesus? that story is seriously so good that I hardly believe it.

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by Jason http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-666 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:25:01 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-666 When Tom’s beard fails, you know you have a problem. Thank goodness you made it to Cheltenham.

]]> Comment on A Night With Miss Chippy and Friends by Mandy http://travelingmonkeys.org/2012/02/15/a-night-with-miss-chippy/#comment-665 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:49:45 +0000 http://travelingmonkeys.org/?p=1177#comment-665 Wow. I had no idea. What’s the point then? It’s just another online brochure.

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