tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-515923085100857940.post1090024795729082092..comments2023-05-14T04:42:35.878-07:00Comments on Violet Lemay: Tooning In: Ring of FireViolet Lemayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241341625949771702noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-515923085100857940.post-5986742496473657192014-07-26T17:51:24.656-07:002014-07-26T17:51:24.656-07:00Diane, how nice to be back in touch! Your stories ...Diane, how nice to be back in touch! Your stories about Veronica remind me of my friend Katie, who blogs about her special-needs daughter Rylie. It's wonderful stuff: texasnorth.wordpress.com.<br /><br />:)<br />Violet Lemayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17241341625949771702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-515923085100857940.post-2611872365372154422014-07-25T17:53:26.639-07:002014-07-25T17:53:26.639-07:00Well, Violet, another blast from your past is abou...Well, Violet, another blast from your past is about to light up your life...from waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the CJA art room! Remember that little freshman Schwartz?... ;) Priorities, my little girl is "Om-mom-mom"-ing me, so I turn the keyboard over to her. She's very excited about an idea we have that we would like to talk to you about...<br />fvvv<br />...wow! She usually does a lot more key tapping than that!!!<br />I am very excited to see where your art has taken you. Life has been too crazy to focus on it, and I have jumped all over with mine !!! My very favorite thing to do is making muppet-style puppets (like Sesame Street) for kids' videos, etc. When I see your illustrated characters, my mind automatically builds them in 3-D puppet form. I can't help it...it's just one of those things! And my goodness, the only thing that has changed about you is your name...my Veronica is partial to "V" names and finds it lovely. She is my 11 year old non-verbal special needs 'wheelchair kid' with global delays. In other words, the main character in a series of children's books based on the life and times of a REAL kid and her REAL life adventures...because there are LOTS of stories to tell, eyes to open, and lessons to be learned by kids (and PARENTS). For example, the day we were stuck in a waiting room at Children's Hospital and a mother scolded her daughter for staring at Veronica with her talker (augmentative communication device...she's learning)! Of course the curious girl dropped her head and put her back to Veronica... how will my daughter ever make friends if this is how people behave? I broke the ice with Mom and asked her to please encourage her daughter to introduce herself to ViVi as she would any other kid. I instructed her to talk to ViVi, ask questions, let Veronica respond and ask questions, too, and just be extra patient because Veronica moves slow and sometimes needs my help...and to let me know if she thought ViVi did. Veronica has a page of jokes in her talker so they were laughing when it was time to say good-bye. That's the way it SHOULD be!:)<br />I'd like to contact you...what's the BEST BEST way?<br />So glad that you are having fun and so glad to have found you!!!<br />~Diane (Schwartz) Sato Kodelja (and Veronica)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com