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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.

Jay B.


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Porter Brookston
born September 10, 2001


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born July 7, 2004

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June 17, 2006

Spring Sing 2006

Categories: Photos, Porter, Friends, Movies — J @ 12:33 pm

Friday evening was the annual Spring Sing at Porter’s Montessori pre-school. He started out pretty good — certainly better than than last year— but after a few songs stopped singing and just looked a little scared and sad. Overall though he seemed to do much better than last year though and once we moved closer to the stage and he could see us more easily he his spirits did seem to pick up a bit. It was great fun to see all the kids and moving it to the eveing (and outside) worked out great this year.

Ms. Liza leads the kids onto the stage.

Porter walking in awed by the crowd of parents.

Ms. Liza starts the kids singing.

The kids on stage. Porter is on the right, wearing a white shirt.

Working on the choreography.

Hmm. What’s next?

Where’s mom and dad?

I’m not sure if he’s waving to us or trying to follow the dance moves.

The kids near the big finale.

But by this time Porter had shut down and stopped participating.

He was just too cool for school.

Practicing his James Bond poses. “I take my milk shaken not stirred. After all, it’s a milkshake, isn’t it?

Here’s a Quicktime movie of Porter singing and dancing to Neil Diamond’s Sing. You can either download the movie to your desktop or just click on the link to play it in your web browser (assuming your web browser has the quicktime plug-in installed).

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1 Comment »

  1. hi jay,
    nice pictures . . . i was wondering how i could get copies of the pictures . . . i tried copying them by saving them, but unfortunately, it did not come out well . . .

    Comment by ms liza - abbeymontessori — June 20, 2006 @ 8:26 am

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