Michael gave me another Christmas present. Some pop corn and gloves. We talked about Christmas and then he got out his exercises and we worked on those and he did so good at counting today! I couold tell he was proud of himself ;) We played some matching games on my kindle and he got a kick out of that. He wanted to go to D.I. He bought a horse movie and then we went to another thrift store that we saw. We had lunch at Del Taco. Millies was closed. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I didn't go over to Michael's on Friday I wasn't feeling very good. I'll see him on either Monday or Tuesday. I hope he had a nice weekend and had a nice Christmas too.

This picture makes me smile :)

When I came in today, Michael had me put the present I brought under his tree and then showed me the little tree that he decorated! It was so dang cute. He got in his drawer's and put things on the tree. He put the umbrella's that he had in a vase on the tree, some sticky dots, paper, a styrofoam ball, and all sorts of things. :) I asked him if he wanted to open his present, he said he did. I bought him some gloves cause that's what he asked for. I hope they work out for him; they seem to fit really well. He gave me a pair of dragonfly earrings :) Thanks Michael! We did his exercises and he had a really hard time with those today! We didn't work on any words; he was having a hard time concentrating. We went upstairs for lunch and dessert and then he walked me to the door. 

Merry Christmas Michael and family! :)

It was snowing and the roads were really bad today. I was a little late. Michael asked me to sit down and then he wanted to give me a Christmas present. He’s so sweet. I told him I had one for him too and asked if we could both open them on Monday when I came over, he said that was OK. We did his exercises and words and then went upstairs for lunch. We went back down to his room and made another ornament with the bells he had in his drawer. Troy came and told us that there was a program upstairs. It was supposed to be at 3:00 but I’m glad I got to see it too. It was the guy that plays the guitar and sings. It was nice. I was telling Michael bye and he said “Bring it” I told him I would bring his Christmas present on Monday ;) he said "Oh, OK" ;)

Tuesday December 17, 2013
Michael was showing me his little tree on his dresser telling me that it was my tree and the bigger one was his. I thought that was cute. We worked on his exercises first and he was having a really hard time today with following directions and counting. After we were done with those, I went over numbers with him and had him read some sentences and he had a hard time on them too. I had him choose between two words and tell me the right one. He did good with that J He wanted to go out to lunch (I had him tell me where we were going first though and he got out ‘lunch’) We went to Burger King again and then he wanted to get more paper or a note pad. He’s out at his place. When we were looking at the paper he picked up a composition book and even said “composition’. I was surprised; it’s kind of a hard word. Or he just knew what it was ;) We talked about Christmas and when I asked him what he wanted, he tried to tell me but I couldn’t get it, I finally got that he wants a new pair of gloves. Thanks for telling me Michael ;)

Michael was trying to tell me what he was out of and needed at the store. He needed some new razors and some more shaving cream. He wanted to go but I told him we had to do his exercises first. We got done with those and then worked on putting words into sentences with the flash cards. We went to Walgreen's and picked up what he needed, looked around a little bit then went back to his place to have lunch. They were going to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" so I went down with him to help put his things away and he walked me upstairs and went to the movie. He's still excited about his Christmas tree :)

Michael was showing me his ornaments that Jerry brought over for us to put on the tree and his other decorations too. He was excited about them. I told him he should put them on and he said smiling, “No, you”. I put one on but had him do the rest. He wanted to go to the store to get a star for the top of the tree. We worked on his exercises first and he had a little bit of a hard time counting. We worked on his flashcards and putting words into sentences. He did pretty good. He was getting anxious about going so we just did a little more words and then went to Walgreens. He picked out a purple star. He had a choice of silver, gold and purple. I was surprised he chose the purple one but glad he picked it out on his own. He got himself another door hanger ornament. It’s a cute little snowman. We went to lunch at Burger King afterwards. “It’s a good as place as any”. We went back and hung his decorations up and put things away. I tried to start a movie for him before I left but the video 2 option wasn’t coming up. 

Michael wanted to go to Walgreens and I.D. I mean D.I. ;) we worked on his exercises first, he did a really good job with his counting today. We got done with exercises a lot sooner. He's
proud of himself when he does a good job. He had a little bit of trouble with his word, phrase's and sentence's today. I made a list of words spelled right and wrong and had him choose the right words. He only got 1 out of 10 wrong. He was anxious to go, so we went to Walgreens first to get some cleaning wipes for his bathroom and then to D.I. He bought a couple movies and then wanted to go to McDonald's for lunch. It was a cold day today. Brrrrr

It snowed a lot today! When I came in, Michael was trying to tell me what he wanted. He finally got out that he wanted to get a Christmas tree to put on top of his dresser by the window! I'm so glad he wants one, last year he wasn't into the holiday's too much. We went to Walgreens and they had the perfect size tree. It even came with lights on it and in a small pot. AND it was senior day so he got the tree for about $17.00! He picked up some HO HO HO letter's too. We went to Crown Burger for lunch then back to his place to put up the tree, exercise and work on words.  

Tuesday November 26, 2013

Today at Highland Cove they had a Thanksgiving buffet. It was really nice! We ate and visited with some other guests, had dessert and then went down and worked on Michael's exercise's. We worked on some reading too and then went to Walgreens to get some more thumb tacks for his cork board. I hope he has a nice Thanksgiving!