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...morning, and Cheryl Nevins, 34, dressed for work in a silky black maternity blouse and skirt, is busily tending to Ryan, 2 1/2, and Brendan, 11 months, at their home in the leafy Edgebrook neighborhood of Chicago. Both boys are sobbing because Reilly, the beefy family dog, knocked Ryan over. In a blur of calm, purposeful activity, Nevins, who is 8 months pregnant, shoves the dog out into the backyard, changes Ryan's diaper on the family-room rug, heats farina in the microwave and feeds Brendan cereal and sliced bananas while crooning Open, Shut Them to encourage the baby...
...twelve-week program for gifted children; later, he was admitted. "But it was mostly arts and crafts with a few field trips run by a volunteer," says his father. "There was not a trained teacher for the gifted." Said Daniel DeRoche, Tommy's principal at the Edgebrook Elementary School: "He is the kind of child a teacher dreams of having once in a lifetime. But now that we have him, we don't know what to do with him." The Irwins received permission to enroll Tommy, now a fifth-grader, in a Spanish class at McHenry High School...
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