This is an interesting time of year for us. The end of January brings with it the Vancouver Motorcycle Show. This is a fun time for us, and I took Doug there today. Whoever says that 4 year olds have short attention spans should have been there today. We arrived at about 3:00pm, and started to make the rounds. We bumped into friends (hi Roland and Mark), and checked out a LOT of new bikes. This year Doug was especially interested in the smaller "kid sized" bikes. He liked to try several sizes out before deciding which ones were "too big". Bittersweet. At any rate, we went hard for 4 hours of booths and bikes and bikes and booths before finally exitting at 7:00 in search of food. There was not a single moment during that entire time that Doug was NOT smiling. And he was spreading cheer everywhere he went - a big beaming smile and a black leather jacket will do that, I guess. Anyhow - it was a good break from the seriousness of life.
January is also the time where they start to hype the Childrens Telethon. There are frequent commercials about kids with disabilities that have been helped. In one way it is reasuring to see the outpouring of help from the community - yet in another it is saddening to know that one day our kid may be the one in the commercial. This is all comes as we approach another "anniversary" of his diagnosis. Highs and lows. Who ever said life would be boring.
Anyhow, that's it for today.
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