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The years go by so fast. This little one has stayed my baby longer. She has needed more. More late nights, more diaper changing, more soothing, more rocking, more cuddles, more medicine, more doctors visits, more time, just more time to grow up. It has been my pleasure and honor to give it to her. Sometimes I feel like I have been initiated into a club that I never wanted to join, the sacred club of mother’s of children who need much more.  Read more >

When she was smaller, before she had regressed, I knew she was special. People were drawn to her, they saw something about her also. I remember a common quote at our house was "there is just something about Sophie". Autism could not take that away. It took her speech, her ability to look other people in the eyes, her ability to blend in like all the other children, but it did not take that blessed gift from God, her beautiful spirit. There is a quite gentleness about her. She has a sweetness that is beyond words, beyond eye contact, beyond normal development.  Read more >