Ty Buddington Tales of Wonder
Part One
Part One
"Mom, what are you doing?" Buddy glanced at me just as the camera flashed. Those dark eyes, double lashed and curly, stared disapproval, while his hands twisted a screwdriver into a door for a closet organizer. He was just as deft on the cams and screws of the new bookcases in his bedroom.
I needed an action photo of Ty Buddington, the new sobriquet for my special needs adult son. I could have also nicknamed him "Bud Astaire." Whenever Buddy has a fancy for a television show, he choreographs his own dance for the opening credits. During the run of the PAX show Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, he created sign language for F.B.Eye by pointing to his eye and then pointed an invisible gun to make an arrest. For the dramaNCIS, Buddy jigs forward and back, mimicking the actor's quirky expressions.
And for his ultimate show, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Buddy stands with a plastic megaphone.
For those who don't watch each episode centers on a special family in need. Families have their stories taped for submission. Each winning family enjoys a holiday far away while team and contracted builders demolish and rebuild a new home in a hectic week, orchestrated by Buddy's hyper-hero, designer Ty Pennington.
Each episode finds Pennington and the design team sneaking up to the home to shout, "Good Morning (Name of) Family! Come on out!" Blue megaphone on his lips, Buddy joins the screams, as the family spills out the door, well dressed yet honestly surprised.
I wondered how Extreme Makeover evoked such fresh emotions from non-actors in a scripted scene. Last summer I learned families in the Dayton/Cincinnati region competed for an extreme makeover. I knew a Rwandan refuges' ministry house submitted a tape. However, writing colleague Donna Shepherd told me her nephew's family got the winning shout.
Before the planned shout, the show's staff telephones several families on the short list for a home makeover. The staff instruct the families to be dressed on a designated morning and to wait inside the house with the curtains closed.
Can you imagine what happens after that call? See the family jump and cry. See the parents or caregivers get the sweepers moving and the dishes cleaned. Girls will rifle through their closets or piles for the right outfits. Teens will want their hair styled right. Nerves tingle as they wait for a hero's shout to summon them from their curtained room to the daylight of a better life in a new home.
No wonder my Ty Buddington adds his megaphone to the happy shout.
When you have good news, don't you want to shout it?
If you've heard about a hero and a better home to come . . . if you've been rescued by the Supreme hero and are ever grateful . . . if you're happy and you know it, then get ready. Share it. Shout Life!
Whenever you proclaim the living hope in you, you join the best build, the build that makes over hearts and souls to be like Jesus.
"But you are a chosen people, . . . a people belonging to God,
that you may declare the praise of him who called you
out of darkness into his wonderful light.(1 Peter 2:9)
I needed an action photo of Ty Buddington, the new sobriquet for my special needs adult son. I could have also nicknamed him "Bud Astaire." Whenever Buddy has a fancy for a television show, he choreographs his own dance for the opening credits. During the run of the PAX show Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, he created sign language for F.B.Eye by pointing to his eye and then pointed an invisible gun to make an arrest. For the dramaNCIS, Buddy jigs forward and back, mimicking the actor's quirky expressions.
And for his ultimate show, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Buddy stands with a plastic megaphone.
For those who don't watch each episode centers on a special family in need. Families have their stories taped for submission. Each winning family enjoys a holiday far away while team and contracted builders demolish and rebuild a new home in a hectic week, orchestrated by Buddy's hyper-hero, designer Ty Pennington.
Each episode finds Pennington and the design team sneaking up to the home to shout, "Good Morning (Name of) Family! Come on out!" Blue megaphone on his lips, Buddy joins the screams, as the family spills out the door, well dressed yet honestly surprised.
I wondered how Extreme Makeover evoked such fresh emotions from non-actors in a scripted scene. Last summer I learned families in the Dayton/Cincinnati region competed for an extreme makeover. I knew a Rwandan refuges' ministry house submitted a tape. However, writing colleague Donna Shepherd told me her nephew's family got the winning shout.
Before the planned shout, the show's staff telephones several families on the short list for a home makeover. The staff instruct the families to be dressed on a designated morning and to wait inside the house with the curtains closed.
Can you imagine what happens after that call? See the family jump and cry. See the parents or caregivers get the sweepers moving and the dishes cleaned. Girls will rifle through their closets or piles for the right outfits. Teens will want their hair styled right. Nerves tingle as they wait for a hero's shout to summon them from their curtained room to the daylight of a better life in a new home.
No wonder my Ty Buddington adds his megaphone to the happy shout.
When you have good news, don't you want to shout it?
If you've heard about a hero and a better home to come . . . if you've been rescued by the Supreme hero and are ever grateful . . . if you're happy and you know it, then get ready. Share it. Shout Life!
Whenever you proclaim the living hope in you, you join the best build, the build that makes over hearts and souls to be like Jesus.
that you may declare the praise of him who called you
out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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