Michael was sitting upstairs again when I got to his place today. He was telling me that he went fishing yesterday with Jerry. I mentioned that it rained and asked if he got rained on. He told me he got really wet but that he had fun. He was having a hard time concentrating today doing his exercises. After he was done with his exercises he got out his flashcards and showed me where he wanted to go. He wanted to go to D.I. We were on our way there but he wanted to go to the one next door on State Street first. We went to D.I. afterwards and then had lunch at Millie's. It was starting to get dark at lunch time. 

Friday September 26, 2014

Michael was sitting upstairs today when I came over. He wanted to take me downstairs. We ended up doing some exercises after he was telling me what he wanted to get at the store. He did really well with his exercises and counting today! We got through the exercises pretty quickly. We had some lunch upstairs first before we left and he was telling me what Jerry had said to him and what he had said back. He was using really good sentence structure! We went to Walgreen's and picked up some things that he needed. (Michael also mentioned at lunch that we need to make something. He was looking at the pumpkins they had at the lunch tables and he said “We can make that”). 

Michael took a while to get exercises and words done today. He had a hard time counting and when we did his words, he was having a hard time with the letters. I was trying to get him to say the sounds of letters. I had him read words and put them into sentences. He was saying the sentence the right way but he couldn't put the words together the right way. We had lunch upstairs and came back down and looked at his calendar to see what he wanted to do for the rest of the week. We talked about fall and projects we can do. We'll have to go out next week for sure. Friday's are short days.

Friday September 19, 2014

We had Lunch upstairs then came back down and worked on exercises and word's. He did pretty good for not doing them for a week! We went for a walk outside and someone told him hi. It seems like everyone has their own name for him. Mick, Mickey, Mike Michael. I asked him which one he liked, he said "None of em, I just want to shoot em all". Haha. When we were at lunch, Joyce, one of the lady's that live at Highland Cove said "Who is that friend of his? She has the nicest smile. She reminds me off an Italian designer in those Italian fashion magazines" and...."she's so thin"...She is so funny and loud. It made my day though.

Tuesday September 16, 2014

I asked Michael how his trip was to Yellowstone, he told me how cold it was and that he needed extra blankets. He asked me to sit down and got out a bag with a Yellowstone pen and a warm furry hat. He had me put the hat on then showed me the one that he got too. He said Jerry has one too. That was so sweet of him to think about me on his vacation. We ended up going to Walgreen's and picking up a few things he needed and then went to Wal-Mart for more bird food. They sure seemed to go through that fast. I did see a lot of birds on the the bird feeder when I was there. There was no place for all of the birds to sit, one was even sitting on top of the bird feeder. We stopped at the thrift store on the way back from Walmart and then went to McDonald's and took lunch to the park to eat; since it was such a nice day. We didn't have time for exercises today but he did get a lot of other things done :)

When I got to Michael's we talked for a bit and he showed me the calendar and told me he was going to go to Yellow Stone :) We went up to lunch and he was saying he had never been there before (To Yellowstone) He will have a good time! He was tired today. I'm not sure when he usually gets up but he said he got up at 5 and out of bed at 6. He had some coffee at lunch and told me he went to the Dr's yesterday with Jerry. His knee is still bothering him :/ hopefully it gets better before he goes. We did some exercises and he was doing good at counting. I had him do some reading too. Have fun Michael and I'll see you when you get back! :)

Today was the day when I told Michael we could go to D.I. I told him we had to do his exercises first and then we could go. We did both sets of exercises and then I had him tell me where we were going. We went to D.I. but didn't stay as long as I thought we would. We went to lunch at McDonald's after. When I asked him where he wanted to go to lunch, he couldn't tell me the name but said it was 'right down the street'. He did a good job of telling me what lane I needed to be in though ;) that was helpful. After lunch we went to Walgreen's, he wanted to pick up more drinks to 'switch it up'. I'm glad I was able to spend a 'normal' amount of time with him today.