It was a good day and one that neither Karen and I were ever really expecting but as he has his entire life, Tris has done more than we ever expected. The only focus we ever applied to him was happiness. It may have been gas, but we swear the kid was smiling when we first saw him at only a few hours old.

We let that thought, his continued happiness, be the only guide that mattered. We have never put Tris in a situation where he became frustrated. A lot of people told us to do things which we knew he wasn't ready for or not needed at all and we continually refused. In the past few years as Tris has bloomed and become the "star" of his class we get these wonderful compliments implying we did something great with him. We didn't. We only did what he wanted and only when he was ready to handle it.....in other words we just went with the flow or took the easy way out. Whatever it was, Tris is a polite and very happy young man with skills he was never expected to have.

What else could we have asked for?

Thanks to all for the Congrats.....I read the thread to him and he kept asking, "For me?" LOL

Spaw