John Kenta

Last December, John got selected to be a "Sparrow Child" by Sparrow Clubs USA.   This is an organization that matches up kids in n...

The kids from Battle Ground High School had another fundraiser for the Sparrow Club (and John) at the Burgerville in Battle Ground.  The Mr...

We had John's yearly IEP meeting last week.  This is where we meet with all of his teachers and come up with his goals for the new year....

We got a message from the teacher today saying that John had a good day, but tried to break the projector and purposely peed on the classroo...

Last night, the kids from Battle Ground HS had their first fundraiser for their sparrow (which happens to be John!).   It was held at a n...

I've been wanted to post about this for awhile, but I waited to make sure it was actually going to happen first. John got selected by  ...

It's just a typical bloody nose, but when Yoshie first saw him I think she got a little freaked out:

Since John started at his new school in September he has not had a single grand-mal seizure while in class, as most of his big seizures have...

We didn't take John out to eat for many years.  It was mainly because of his never-ending seizures, but also because of his behavior.  O...

Well, that was a tough couple of weeks.  Ever since John's Thanksgiving adventure night seizures have been relentless.  Yoshie and I tra...

John gets in to these moods where he likes to throw things.  Sometimes it is when he is angry or frustrated, but most of the time it seems c...

Yoshie told me yesterday that John had about 40 seizures that she was aware of on Monday night.   Last night, I put John to sleep and stayed...

Well, this was an eventful one. Maya, John, and I started the day with the local 2 mile turkey trot.  John ran for the first quarter mile, ...

It's really hard to get video of a seizure.  They come on so randomly and obviously grabbing a camera is not the first thing on your min...

I've mentioned it before, but we've started John on cannabis.  It is legal in Oregon, and we are properly licensed to both administe...

John has been suffering a lot of night seizures, but hasn't had any daytime seizures for quite some time.  Of course that all changed on...

John has really been struggling with big nighttime seizures lately so we decided to get his VNS adjusted again.  It has been at a pretty low...

Last week it was all about chair arrangement.  This week he has moved on to chair destruction: We really don't have much fur...

John's new "thing" is taking all of our dining room chairs and arranging them in some unique way.  I have no idea what he is t...

John is really having a hard time at night now.  Almost every day he will have a big seizure about 1 hour after going to bed.  He wakes up r...

While we've never had long seizure-free periods, we had been doing pretty well lately, averaging about one large seizure per week.   For...

While we avoided damaging the condo while on vacation, it didn't take long after we returned to cause some real damage: Who kn...

We had a nice weekend in Sunriver.  We got in some nice boating, hiking, and swimming.  And, we avoided damaging the condo.  Yay! ...

We got an aluminum teapot so that John couldn't break it. He still found a way:

We are getting the window replaced with some shatter-proof glass, but it is going to take awhile.  So, I had to board it up:  

We knew it would happen someday.  John loves to lay backwards on the couch and kick the window. Thankfully it was only one pane of a...

We'll see how these hold up, but so far they seem like the best invention ever: The drawers and cabinets stay locked until you s...

John eats an amazing amount of food, but he is also pretty wasteful. This is a normal result after eating popcorn: and here is th...

Well, it was a long time coming, but we finally were able to get John on medical marijuana.  It's kind of ironic that it happened the sa...

Maybe the next big thing?

Of course, there is no child lock made that can keep John out.  So, long ago we resorted to tying up the cupboard to keep him out.  It's...

It's been a long time since I've seen a big grand mal seizure.   We had a few last week after he drank the diastat, but those were o...

Oh man.  Yet another new thing to worry about.   John has taken a liking to paper money.   I mean, EATING paper money.  I guess he likes the...

We had a little bit of a scare last week when John decided to DRINK his emergency medicine (Diastat otherwise known as valium) that is norma...

It's hard to see in the picture, but John's new fascination is taking all of our shoes and putting them behind the piano.

The destruction continues.  In the last couple of days he broke the glass light in our bedroom, pulled out the light in our bedroom that was...

So one of John's new hobbies is ripping up papers.  This was just a newspaper, but he has since moved on to magazines and books.

John has always been an escape artist.  But, lately his desire to escape our house has become alarming.  We already have keypad locks on all...

Well, I knew it was too good to last.  We had a couple of months of nice runs where I pushed John in his push chair and Yoshie rode her bik...

He can get on the roof in about 20 seconds now via the tree in our front yard.  And, he will if you take your attention off of him at all. ...

For some unknown reason, John had a NEED to move all of our shoes to this one location.  There was no stopping him. Autism is so weird...

We bought the mats to keep him safer, but of course he figured out a way to have some fun with them:

This is why we keep the cupboard locked:

John was supposed to be in bed (in his pajamas).  This is where we found him:

Window sill: