Today at Highland Cove they had a Thanksgiving luncheon. The dining room was packed! We went upstairs with Michael's friend Joyce. We were the only ones upstairs. Michael was showing me the pool table and after we were done eating, we played a game off pool. He wanted to go to the store, we picked up a few things and then he was telling me to go up the street. We ended up at Thrift on 33rd. He bought a couple snowmen for decorations for his room. Hes excited about decorating for Christmas.

Friday November 21, 2014

Michael was saying that he wanted to show me something. We went down to his room and he showed me the Christmas wreath that Jerry brought over. I mentioned putting it on his front door but he said "Not yet". So, we will wait until he is ready to put it up. He said "Let's go". We had lunch first upstairs and then went to D.I. He bought a funny movie, some new ornaments for his Christmas tree and a mug. On the way back, I was asking him about the Home Again store, we went in and looked around. We came back and did his exercises. (On the way to D.I. he saw an Expedition and said that word! It's a long syllable word. Maybe it was from memory.)

Michael was upstairs waiting for me. We worked on something we haven't for a long time! He used to do facial, tongue, following directions and making sounds with his PT. I had him choose 2 things that he wanted to do today. That was one of the things he chose. He was saying "This is hard". He did a good job though. We worked on picture and word matching too. He was showing me the time, so we went up to lunch and then over to Walgreen's to get him some more root beer :) He wanted to go to D.I. afterwards and he was showing me the way. He bought a movie that I put in for him before I left. 

Friday November 14, 2014

Michael has been upstairs lately when I come over. I'm glad that he's getting out and going upstairs earlier. He asked me if I was ready to eat, so we went to lunch and then he was showing me that he was almost out of bird food already! I told him we could hold off on it until Tuesday. I wasn't sure how long the bird's would be around. It's getting cold. We worked on his exercises and he did a good job with those and with counting. We worked on some of his mono-syllabic, by-syllabic and tri-syllabic words before I left. 

Tuesday November 11, 2014

Michael was talking really well today and using good sentence structure. He was telling me about a coat that he bought with Jerry. We walked over to go pick it up from the alterations place but it wasn't ready yet. (He's getting his name patch put on his new coat). He was excited to get it. We came back and exercised, worked on words and numbers and the difference between the two. We went up and had lunch then went to pick up his new nice jacket :) I was mentioning to him to stay on the sidewalk when he was waiting for the light. "Yes ma'am, yes ma'am" it was funny. (I helped to clean out and organize his closet when we got back. We will find a place for his summer shirts on Friday).

Today was a short day. I told Michael we could go somewhere on Tuesday. We had lunch upstairs after we did his exercises. We even did squats in the elevator and lunges down part of the hall way. It was a nice day today. When we went downstairs, I had him practice some of this monosyllabic words. He had a little hard time with those. I think he needs to practice reading a little more.

Jerry called and Michael is missing a lens from his glasses. We looked all over and asked lost and found but we couldn't find it anywhere. Michael went to a movie with Jerry yesterday, maybe it's with him someplace. We did his exercises, he was having a hard time counting. He was a little quite today too. We made a list for Walgreen's and picked up a few things then had lunch afterwards. Hope his lens turns up.
(Michael gave me a little angel today. I told him I would keep it in my pocket so I could always have an angel with me ;)

Friday October 31. 2014

It was a short day today. I had Michael change into his ghost t-shirt since it is Halloween today! We had lunch and then went for a walk around the building and looked at the Halloween decorations.

Tuesday  October 28, 2014

Michael was upstairs when I came over. We went down and did his exercises. We worked on words, phrases and sentences. He had a really hard time with those today.