Isaiah, age 10, cracked me up this morning.  He is a pretty silent kid when it comes to using words.  His autism makes speech a little difficult and makes him seem like he doesn't know as much as he does.  I am not convinced in the least that he is as  genuinely "Mentally Retarded" as the doctors say he is.  Still, he doesn't say too much with words very often, and usually uses one to three word sentences.

But not today!   This morning I was ranting and raving to him and his twin about not making mess after mess and he sat there on his dad's recliner with a little grin on his face -- completely unaffected by my outraged state of mind --  and said clear as a bell:   "Mom needs some medicine to calm her down!"

I couldn't do anything but laugh.  It was great.


  (Isaac Matthew, Left; Isaiah Michael, Right -- 2003)