Celebrating 2008, The Year of Invisible Posts — It’s Not Your Eyes
Welcome to the Brookston family blog. We'll post updates here on what's going on in our part of the world, and especially with our son, Porter, who has been diagnosed with some form of autism. Our hope is that this blog will help us deal with all the issues we'll be facing and keep our friends and family informed as well.
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America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model
I went out for a few hours this afternoon and when I got back Porter wanted to roughhouse on the snuggle chair. But he was also unusually amenable to having his picture taken and I got these two model-worthy shots.
On my stomach.
Okay, this is the money shot. Hello modeling agency.
Silent Day
We’ve trying to get Porter to understand that it’s not polite to talk or interrupt people when they’re talking. Naturally, he’s not quick to pick this one up, except one aspect of it. This morning when Sarah and I were talking he came up to me announced that I should be “quiet” and then he shushed me repeatedly.
“Quiet, Daddy. Shh!“
The Rombeiro House
On Porter’s last day at Montessori last week, they gave us a hand out with some suggested things to do with the kids over the holidays. One of the items on the list was The Rombeiro House, which was also featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. From the article, we learned there was a Christmas train so we knew we had to take Porter. So after we picked up Sarah at the ferry, it was off to the Rombeiro House.
According to the article, the Rombeiro’s are a family orginally from Portugal, who got caught up in the spirit of Christmas in a big way. They begin putting up their holiday decorations in September and it takes them three months to put them away. They use over 80,000 lights just outside and their December electricity bills tops $1500. It was pretty amazing and the kids, especially Porter, were in awe. Inside almost every room is filled floor to ceiling with elaborate displays. And I mean everywhere. Every nook and cranny is filled. It makes Jim Funk’s Halloween house look positively underdressed.
The Rombeiro House from the outside.
Part of the right side of the front yard.
Part of the left.
One of two Christmas train layouts in the house.
A close-up of Santa driving the train.
Sarah tries in vain to get the kids to look at the camera. There’s just too much here to distract them.
The other train layout in a spare bedroom.
The back bedroom is filled with a nativity scene and more.
