Friday March 22, 2013

It snowed last night! We spent time doing Michael's exercises, word matching game and sentences. Janette told us about a Health fair so we went over to that. Michael wasn't too interested in it though so we went for a walk outside and he wrote his name in the snow again. There is a singing activity later on that I hope he goes up to.

Wednesday  March 20, 2013

I came to pick up Michael to go to the Doctor's but the nurse had already taken him. He tried to tell me he went already. We went and talked to Janette just to be sure. She did take him today, just like he said. He seems to be doing a little better today.

 Tuesday March 19, 2013

Michael's foot was sore today. We went up to see the nurse to have her take a lookat it and then spent time downstairs working on his papers. He's doing pretty good, even the nurse mentioned how much better he is talking :) He even wanted to exercise today. We just did a little though. We practiced his VCR too.

It was a nice day today. Michael was reading when I came over. We did his exercises, looked for his other flash cards and practiced his words, phrases and sentences. He did a really good job! I asked him to practice on Tuesday, I think he did ;) We went for a walk outside before he went in for lunch.

I wasn't feeling good on Tuesday so I didn't go over. I called Michael to tell him though and he even called me back.

Debra the Activities Director was coming up on the elevator with Michael. I went with them to the 'clubhouse' room. Michael along with about 8 others sat in a circle and did a fun activity. They had swimming pool noodles and were hitting balloons with them trying to keep them in
 the air, they played with a parachute too. It was fun. I was saying it was fun when we were walking back to Michaels room, he said "It's too fast". but he had fun. We went down to his room and did his exercises. I had him read some of the directions to me too. I made a few new word flash cards and we worked on those and some of his other papers too. I helped him to put in a DVD in before I left. He walked me out and then went to lunch.

We worked on exercises and then in the middle of it, Michael had to show me the new clothes he got :) when  we were almost finished, the fire alarm went off. I had him go upstairs. (He didn't understand that he needed to leave when he heard that). We came back and finished his exercises, I had him read some of the instructions to me too. He has a hard time with that but does better with the words and phrases that he has. I have been having him tell me what we did that day before I go. Maybe this will help with putting sentences together. 

Tuesday February 26, 2013

We did Michael's exercises today with the new papers. He has been counting to 10 when we do them. We worked on some new flashcards and ran out of tape. We went over to Walgreen's then we came back and he helped me put the flashcards together and then read what they were. After we were done we went and had lunch upstairs. When we were walking back to his place, I mentioned he should write an M in the snow. He wrote 'Mickey' in the snow :) we worked on pictures and words when we got back to  his place. He got out his change, so we ended up counting how much he has. He did a good job. I had him put a movie in his DVD player before I left. He was so sweet telling me he didn't want me to go