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Netta and Bailey (at right) being all sneaky wearing each other's costumes.

You might have noticed Art having various tics over the last few years, like blinking his eyes, moving his jaw, taking extra breaths when he speaks, stuff like that. You also may have heard an exasperated me or Ben trying to figure out how to deal with him being inflexible, impulsive or even explosive. Turns out it is all related to Tourette Syndrome , which Art was recently diagnosed with. At the end of the summer we took him to a neurologist and the doctor said, without a doubt, that Art has Tourette's. That means Art's brain is firing for movements and impulses abnormally. It is diagnosed when a child has had both vocal and motor tics for more than 12 months and other tic-causing things are ruled out. The tics are aggravated by stress and fatigue, among some other things, and some Occupational Therapy things can help like chewing gum, sitting on a ball and some other random things. Likely Art will have tics from TS through adolescence, probably with the tics fading or le...

This awesome thing was taken by Jeff, the dad on of Lewis' friends who had a birthday party today. Full disclosure, one of these kids threw up later... Although apparently he'd been sick for a few days!

Art, wearing his new mittens, consoling Bailey who was sad because I would not pick her up.

I'm in New York for work (Vikings football game) and took a couple fun photos from my too much walking around yesterday.