I came over a little earlier today. Michael was watching T.V.  We worked on his word matching from speech therapy and then did his exercises. We highlighted his December calender for the activities he was interested in. After that we just visited and talked. I was reminding him that I wouldn't be here all month and was telling him where I was going on vacation...he said "Golly". He walked me out to my car, and gave me a hug. 

I hope he has Merry Christmas!

Today I found Michael down stairs listening to a singing group (A man and a lady playing guitars and singing). When I sat down he said "Where you been?" We listened for a while, it was fun, then he wanted to show me his new...from speech therapy. We did the matching; words to picture and he did a good job. He wasn't too interested doing much else with that or the other speech therapy things since he just did it earlier. We worked on his exercises and he was showing me his hats. He put one on me and laughed saying that I needed one too. We went down for lunch and then we worked on the schedule for December and highlighted things he was interested in doing. We turned that into the front desk for the activity director.

Friday November 23, 2012

I didn't go over today but will see Michael on Tuesday. I hope he had a nice Thanksgiving. 

Tuesday November 20, 2012

Michael had speech therapy today. We worked on some of his papers but I think he was getting tired of it. We did his exercises, worked on the DVD player and visited. He went down for the Thanksgiving lunch they were having. He walked me out to my car when I left. (He said he got me some socks, I wasn't wearing any the other day so he thought I should have some. I told him I had some at home, it was kind of funny, he's so thoughtful though.)

Michael wanted to go to the store today, he even got the flashcard out to show me where. :) We did his exercises and some of his speech therapy and practiced on the DVD, then we went to Walgreens go pick up some light bulbs. He wanted to go to D.I. to get a new CD rack (He showed me that card too) but I convinced him he didn't need another one. On the way to the store, he showed me some bikes that were for sale and was telling me he had a 'silver and black one' but that it got stolen. 
He had a hard time with some of the speech therapy but we repeated some words and phrases and he was able to read and fill in the blank better. 

Tuesday November 13, 2012

Michael was watching TV when I went over. We worked on his exercises and some of his papers from speech therapy and the flash cards too.  I don't know if he recently had pizza but for a while that was the answer. ;) We took the papers from speech therapy and went for a drive up to the mountains. I was asking him questions along the way. He pointed out a Jeep to me too that was for sale. He said he wanted to get a hamburger. We went to Woody's drive in and had lunch there. He said he liked it. He was showing me the picture of the 'Ford' on the wall.

Friday November 9, 2012

I found Michael down at the lobby, he was watching a film. I'm not sure what it was but I was glad to see him out and being involved in an activity. He was telling me all about his new papers that he got and told me to come and see them. He sure does have a lot, we went over all of them and then did his exercises. I went down and had coffee with him while he had lunch. It was snowing, can't believe how the weather changes so fast. 

Michael had just taken a shower when I showed up today. He showed me his new 'homework' from Speech Therapy. We worked on that, he did a really good job. I showed him the flashcards I made and we looked at those too. He did his exercises and since it was such a nice day, I wanted to take him outside. We went to Sugarhouse Park, it was really pretty. We took some of his Speech Therapy papers with us to work on. One of the phrases was "A lot of _______ " (Fill in the blank.) He said "A lot of, money." I thought that was a great answer! :) We looked at the Highland Cove newsletter and he chose some things he would like to do. He wanted to wait to fill out the rest later. He was telling me about a lady that lives down the hall. When I asked him if he talked to her, he said "Only when I have to." It was kinda funny. He was really talkative today. We stopped at Arby's on the way back and then had lunch outside at Highland Cove. One of these days I'll have to watch a movie with him. He asked me to stay and watch a movie with him today. He gave me a big hug when I left. He said he had a nice visit with his sister when she was here visiting.