Time for an Alex update!! EIGHTEEN DAYS TILL ALEXS BIRTHDAY!! The original Facebook Post has now been shared 1438 times!!! This has resulted in Alex receiving 116 cards from 29 states and SIX countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Germany!) and POSSIBLY one from another world (see last entry!) Amazing, astounding….and most of all, FUN!!!! Still playing phone tag with WCAX, I will keep you posted! The states Alex has not received any cards from are AK, AZ, AR, CO, ID, IA, LA, MS, MO, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SC,UT, WV and WY! On Thursday, Alex received the following cards: From Kirsten S at Ben & Jerry’s in South Burlington, VT Alex received a card with a cool Happy Birthday bus on it! The card says “Happy Birthday from London! From Mari O in JAPAN, Alex received a fabulous card and a great WORLD MAP that is much better than the one he had. We found a new place for it right away! From The Mahoney’s in Barre, VT Alex received a super sparkly birthday card! From Debbie in Buffalo, NY Alex received a beautiful butterfly card. From Sharon D in Riverside, CA, Alex receive a cool alien card! Alex cannot believe how people know about him from so far away! From Paul & Pattie in Holbrook, MA, Alex received a wicked funny card. Let me tell ya, he was giggling! Alex received a postcard from Karina in Laguna Niguel, CA! Alex LOVED the picture of the beach. Someday we would like to visit there! Alex received a card from Nancy H in Beloit, WI. The card had Shar Pei puppies on the front. SO CUTE! From Scott, Deanna, Tyler, Cole & Roark in N. Royalton, OH Alex received a card welcoming him to the teenage world :D Alex received a card from Didi, Suzy, Brandon, Devon, Cary, Chelsea and their pets Camo, Shelby and Penny as well as Lucky and Tigg from ClearLake, TX which is right near Houston. Alex was very excited to get a card from Texas, especially such a sparkly one! Alex learned that Houston is the home of the NASA Space Center. We also learned that our neighbors, Mikhael and Sylvia are godparents to the children in this family! From Judy B in South Windham, CT, Alex received a great card with a dog on the front. Alex learned that during the revolutionary war, folks heard what they thought was a battle one evening, but later discovered it was really FROGS battling in a pond! WOW. Friday, Alex received the following cards: Alex received a Happy, Happy, Happy birthday card from Erin, Mark & Chance in Vergennes, VT! Chelsea P in Fredericksburg, VA sent Alex a card! Chelsea used to work with Alex and it was GREAT to hear from her! Alex learned that Fredericksburg is famous for FIVE civil war battles and is the home of George Washington when he was a boy! Alex received a card from Ashley and David J in Greensburg, PA. Alex learned that Greensburg was named after Nathanael Greene who was a major general in the American Revolutionary War. Also, Pennsylvania was the 2nd state in the USA! The state flower is called the Mountain Laurel and Ashley & David have one in their yard! Erin U in Garnett, KS sent Alex a card! He was excited to get a card from Kansas where Dorothy is from on the Wizard of Oz, one of his favorite movies! Alex received a card from Susan J and Larry K, Lara K, Sophie K and Brad K in Berkeley, CA with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge! Alex thought the bridge was HUGE! Julia, Heather & Jude M sent Alex a card from Ellington, CT. I went to law school with Julia, so she has known Alex since he was a little guy Alex learned lots of facts about Ellington. He cracked up when he found out that there are lots of farms there with cows and that the manure smell is so bad that sometimes folks call it Smellington!!! We have that very same smell up here sometimes! Alex received a card from LaRita D in Pensacola, FL with Captain America on it! Alex loved it! Lucille K from Greenwich, CT sent Alex a card with a balloon on it. She is Julia’s (see above) aunt and offered to be Alex’s pen pal, how sweet! Robert and MaryLeone B from Whitehall, MI sent Alex a very sweet birthday card! Alex received a card from Susan T in Menifee, CA! Alex LOVED the fish all over the envelope and when he opened the card there was a really neat 3D diving scene. Alex loved it! Chris & Tim C in Groton, CT sent Alex a very neat card shaped like an umpires shirt with all the different sport balls as buttons! Alex learned that their favorite things to do in Groton are see the ships at Mystic Seaport or the penguins at the Mystic Aquarium. Alex loves ships and penguins too! Alex received a card from Kaua’i Hawaii. We don’t know who sent it, but thank you! This is called the Garden Island and they filmed the movie Jurassic Park here! This is ANOTHER one of Alex’s all-time favorite movies! Mikhael & Sylvia Y our neighbors, sent Alex a HILARIOUS fart joke card! 9 pages of a funny rhyme and Alex was laughing up a storm. I don’t’ think there is a 13 year old boy in the world who does not appreciate a good fart joke! We learned that they have lived in Texas, California, New Mexico and South Dakota. Mikael actually lived in a Teepee for 7 months! Alex received a package from the Mosaic Learning Center in South Burlington, VT that had FOUR cards in it. One card is signed by all the staff which Alex thought was very neat, and then he received handmade cards from Kyle, Alysha, and Carlton! Alex loved all the great stickers and drawings! The kids at Mosaic invited Alex to their school to play. What a sweet invitation :) On Saturday, Alex received the following cards: From Jameo, Lucy and Matthew J in Dublin, IRELAND, Alex receive a card. Alex learned that this was first a Viking settlement which Alex thinks is pretty cool (he LOVES the Vikings in How to Train Your Dragon!) and that they speak English but the language is Irish. They have Phoenix Park in Dublin which is 1,750 acres! Alex received a card from Kanako O In ITALY! Wow, that was a fun one to map! It looks just like a big boot! Alex loved all the pictures of Italy on the front of the card! From Michele S in Perkinsville, VT Alex received a card with a pig on the front that made him laugh! I went to high school with Michele and she told Alex that in 1947 there was a B-29 bomber that crashed on Hawks Mountain in Perkinsville! WOW! Alex received a card from Mike P & Denise L in Williamstown, VT! Pretty cool to see how nice people are from all over the world, and right here at home too! The Arents in Corona, CA sent Alex an adorable card with a dog on the front :) Connie & Jim W in Ticonderoga, NY sent Alex a card. Alex learned that this is right near Lake George and Lake Champlain. We LOVE Lake George and go there almost every year. Ticonderoga means between two lakes! We did not know that! Alex received a card from Bob & Lynne D in Amarillo, TX with a whole letter filled with facts about the area! Alex thought it was amazing that helicopters are made there and that they have tornadoes! Migue V sent Alex a card from Bloomington, IN! We learned that Indiana was once covered by a warm sea which made layers of limestone which have been used to make the Empire State Building, Pentagon, Lincoln Memorial and others. Italian immigrants carved the stone into beautiful shapes and designs and some of the limestone has FOSSILS, one of Alex’s favorite things! Alex received a card from Karina in Newport Beach CA! Alex learned that Newport has the longest operating and only auto ferry in Southern California! Alex loved the picture on the postcard! Courtney M in Milton, DE sent Alex a birthday card with a great fact sheet in it! The population is very similar to Williamstown and they build ships there! Amy B & Tiffany G in Cohoes, NY sent Alex a birthday card! Alex received a card from Valerie B in Erie Pennsylvania! Charley in Hollywood, FL sent Alex a letter! Charley recognized Alex’s Permobil standing wheelchair right off as he works with kids in wheelchairs in Southern Florida. We were NOT surprised to learn that Florida does not pay for standing wheelchairs for kids that need them. We have private insurance and they denied this at first too. We did not give up, appealed the decision (which took over 100 hours of research and writing and had many, MANY pages of studies to back up the necessity for it, and WON. We now provide this appeal (redacted) and all supporting documentation to anyone who has been denied. It won’t help if it is an item that is outright excluded in a policy, but has helped some people. We could go on and on about how this chair has improved Alex’s life and potentially prevented additional physical problems :) Thanks for your letter Charley! Alex received a card from Anna M in Bessemer, AL! Ana’s birthday was on Thanksgiving LAST year and since Alex’s is on Thanksgiving THIS year, she told him that everyone will be celebrating with him in the parade. Alex learned that Birmingham is home to the nation’s OLDEST baseball park, Rickwood Field, which opened in 1910! Tommie & Tyra D and Grandma Nash sent Alex a card from Corona, CA! Alex learned that Corona is the Circle City because in the early 1900’s there was a race track right in the middle of town! Alex received a package from Patty L in Los Angeles, CA! I went to law school with Patty! Inside the package was a Mickey Mouse card (Alex LOVES Mickey Mouse!) and a whole BOOK with little known facts about California! FUN!! And speaking of fun, Alex received a card from Ka that might just be from another world! ;) It has a picture of Earth on the front and inside says that it is from a galaxy far, far away. We went to the website that was provided and learned that Alpha Centauri B is a planet 4.3 light years away and it is considered to be superhabitable, meaning it might have living things on it! Wouldn’t’ that be AMAZING if there was? Alex thinks so. To learn more about this world, visit gizmag/alpha-centauri-b-superhabitable-worlds/30571/
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:28:42 +0000
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