My Emily and my Jessica.

These pics aren't very good. They were taken with my cell phone.

This is Emily (left).We were at Powell Gardens on this day, I believe the first Saturday of September 2008.

Emily is 11 and time does fly. She's had a lot of difficulties in this growing up process. Emily has something called "Asperger's Syndrome" which used to be referred to as "high functioning autism". It's still an Autism spectrum dissorder, but I think they figure if they change the name of it it sounds a little less intimidating. Still, the implications are the same. She is very intelligent, but has a lot of severe social impairments, as in her ability to empathize and read social cues. She has a very hard time making or keeping friends because of her social immaturity. She learns things in a completely different way than most people. She is great at route learning, but not good with conceptual thinking. Her processing speed is also slow, but her sense of humor is top notch. lol She's quite the little entertainer, and maybe that will be her calling. She's also GREAT at spelling. She took 2nd place in the district spelling bee last year. YAY EMY!

To the right is Jessica on her 13th bday last year. (Sep. 5). Fortunately, she doesn't have the problems Emily does. Actually, she's the complete opposite. She has a 3.75 gpa, she's on Student Council, in the gifted program, choir, band, does tons of volunteer work in the KC area, and is going to be attending the Jr. National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C this spring. Yeah, she's a go-getter. If she has one serious fault it's that she expects too much out of herself. Noone should ever think they have to be perfect, but a B on her report card sends her into panic attacks. Personally, I don't get that. I never found grades to be anything of great importance. Jess is really not anything like me. lol Thank God! At this time she wants to be a pediatrician. Emily...wants to be a triangle. lmao!