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A giant congratulations to you Kim. What a beautiful little sweetie. Your other two are beauties too. They look like very proud sisters.
Great article, Tracy ! ! ! Congratulations ! ! ! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Congratulations, Jeremy. It sounds like a wonderful old house. I love big yards too. I can't wait to see pictures of your new pup.
Love your hockey player, Marion. We're big hockey fans too. You might need to needlefelt some teeth so you can give him a few missing ones and maybe a bandage above his eyebrow. :crackup: :crackup:
Marion, how fun to have pigs. George is so funny.
Lucky you, Luann. Great choices ! ! !
Well congratulations, Maisie. Everybody can't be an "A" student, afterall. She looks quite smart in her graduation attire anyway.
Like Shelli says, Judi, it's amazing "how the brain works in really mysterious and marvelous ways" (well said, Shelli). It was fascinating to watch the brain activity on the MRI in the documentary. Wouldn't it be fun to watch your brain activity? That would be tooo kewl.
Shelli, it was a documentary called "When Senses Collide" on the Science HD channel. I taped it on my Comcast DVR.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 
My husband, daughter and I both sat with tears streaming while watching it.
Julia, it's coming up just fine from the link on your avatar here.
I see you've found the Cutest Blog on the Block. Isn't it so fun?
Chloe, there was a man on the documentary who had a food taste in his mouth for every word. He said it was quite confusing when he was trying to cook something, he would smell whatever he was cooking and taste all sorts of other thing.
Ellen, it doesn't sound like synesthesia because the colors are associated with something else; like the letter O is white with blue dots in Paige's head. But, how awful to find your new home with terrible, disturbing colors. EEK.
Ditto, ditto, ditto all of the above, Lisa. I'll be checking in on your blog regularly too. Is it just bears? Do you think you'll be creating things other than bears? Seems we creative types need a creative outlet of some sort. Well, anyway, you'll have more time to spend with those three darlings of yours.
Makes perfect sense, Andrea. How facinating ! ! ! !
Yay, I knew I'd find some synesthetes out there.
Very interesting, Sue Ann. There are musicians with synesthesia. Miles Davis has it, according to the documentary, and Paige is a musician too. I'll bet your daughter is a synesthete. Ask her about other things like music, letters and words. Although, many synesthetes only see one thing in color. Paige had a teacher in high school who only saw the numbers of the week in color.
Ask her to do a google search on synesthesia and let me know what she thinks.
Just wondering, because I saw a documentary recently about synesthesia and it seem that a lot of artists have it. What is it, you say?
It's crossing of the senses in the brain. My daughter, Paige has it. When she was six, she said, "Mom I know what color numbers are, and letters and words too." She explained to me that she sees all numbers, letters and words in it's own color. For instance, number 1 was red, 2 was yellow, 3 was kind of light blue and so on. Some even have patterns such as 7, which is black with silver dots. I wrote them down and quizzed her randomly off and on for several days and . . . always the same. (To this day the same because, "That's just what they are.")
I later learned that this was synesthesia. Where we see numbers and letters in our mind's eye, probably in black lettering, she sees in her mind's eye numbers, letters and even words, each with their own color. She also sees the numbers on a "line" in her head. 1 through 10 go up in a line then the teens slant out to the right then 20's go along to the back etc indefinitely. There were other synesthetes in the documentary with similar number "lines".
Some synesthetes see colors for music or sensations or emotions. One woman hated the color orange because it was her color for pain. One woman paints amazing pictures from the colors she sees when she hears symphonies.
It's been shown in studies that the synesthete's brain will show activity in the hearing and vision centers of the brain when they hear numbers, letters, words spoken. Non-synesthetes will only show activity in the hearing center when they hear them.
So, I was wondering if there were any synesthetes out there in this artist world here.
my little synesthete:
I had to share this. My mom sent it to me this morning. Get your Kleenex ready.
When you think you can't put one foot in front of the other please watch this! This is a true story!
The son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?'. The father who, despite having a
heart condition, says 'Yes'. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on
to join other marathons, the father always saying 'Yes' to his son's request of going through the
race together. One day, the son asked his father, 'Dad, let's join the Ironman together.' To
which, his father said 'Yes' too.
For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance
events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with
a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island Father and son went on to complete the race
together.
NOW WATCH THIS VIDEO:
Hi Julia,
I love your avatar bear ! ! ! Great blog too.
I've added you to my blog. Here's mine http://swanvalleybears.blogspot.com/
Huge congratulations to you, Eileen. What a cutie ! ! ! And, you lucky duck, you get him 2 days a week.
I became a grandmother for the first time (at age 53) in December but, alas, my little Sullivan is half way across the country in Nashville. 
But they're planning a visit in July. 
I too am campaigning for a second. My younger daughter who lives nearby, has a boyfriend and it's looking kind of serious. I find myself asking her if marriage is in the conversations because, "I am going to be wanting more grandbabies, you know. Don't rush things, but . . . well, you know." Yep, no pressure, Paigie . . . NOT.
Here in the northern California foothills, we had a lightening storm with a little hail on Saturday. This almost never happens, well maybe in the high sierras but not in the foothills. The lightening started numerous small fires in the dry foothills and with this and all the other wild fires burning in Northern California, we woke up this morning to a sky full of thick smoke.
This evening, the smoke in the sky gave the setting sun an eerie look.
Yep, the prep is the worst part of it. I've had many colonoscopies. My mom had colon cancer about 18 years ago (she's fine). About 13 years ago, I had tumors in my colon that couldn't be biopsied so they did surgery. Fortunately the tumors were benign. (But I still lost half my colon.) I've had a colonoscopy every three years since then. Anyhow . . . you no longer have to drink the two liters. I had to drink a gallon of the disgusting liquid my first couple times. Now you can use something you buy over the counter and you only have to drink about 1/2 cup of disgusting stuff. The results are the same though. Don't go far from the bathroom.
Oh yeah, I like it ! !
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Ooooooooh . . . I so wish I could be there. Next year I'm going to be there. We're in the process of moving right now so by next year I'll be settled in and ready to go.
They're just as cute as babies as they are beautiful as adults.
