My dad is very light skinned. He freckles in the sun and burns very easily -so he never goes on any outdoor adventures without one of his floppy brimmed straw hats! (He was pretending to be a pirate on this rafting trip last yr -that's why he has the goofy eye patch on, he even talked in Pirate lingo with words like 'matey' and 'aaargh' :) I appreciate the fact that he is skin cancer conciouse now, but when I was growing up I was always a little embarrased that he insisted on wearing his farmer John's hat, and he often tried to get us to wear one too! I love my Dad so much!.........Now to preface the next picture I need to explain a little about my brother Jay. He is one year younger than me and has low functioning Autism. He is the sweetest boy and I love him so much! He has a hard time understanding the purpose of things. For example, my mom taught him how to empty the dishwasher -so then he started putting all the dishes he found away in the cubbords -clean or dirty, and regardless of whether you were done eating your meal or not. All he understood was that "dishes go in cubbords". So she tried to reverse it by teaching him h
ow to put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher -but then he started taking clean dishes out of the cupboards and precaroiusly trying to balance /stuff them all in the dishwasher. Needless to say, he was quickly excused from helping out with household chores (mabey he's secretly a geniuse!) He understands that "hats go on your head" so anytime he finds one he'll put it on -and my brothers have a lot of baseball hats! My mom found him asleep in bed like this one night and I thought it was pretty funny :)
2 comments:
I love that picture of your brother!
When Kirk and I lived in the ward a while back. Kirk fell in love with your brother, he said he was one of his fave. people in the ward!
That is a cute story about Jay. He is such a sweetheart. =)
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