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

Last night I printed out some new papers for Michael's exercises. We looked at them and then he did his exercises. He read some of them too. When he was doing his balancing he was leaning against his chair. I told him he wasn't supposed to lean on anything. He said "You weren't supposed to see that." I made some more flash cards that we can put together another day too. We worked on some of his words, phrases and sentences. He was ready to go up to lunch, he walked me out first. Have a good weekend Michael!

Michael was up watching one of his John Wayne movies on the big screen. When I walked in he said "Where you been?" and "How's my girl?" :) We went back down to his room, he was done watching the movie. We did his exercises and then he showed me the D.I. card today and said he wanted to go there first. We stopped at Millie's burgers on the way. I asked him if he had ever been there before; he said, "Ya, with Jerry". Michael left before I was ready. I talked to him about waiting for me when we go places and how we need to stay together. It was a nice and warm day today. 

Friday February 15, 2013

Michael wanted to go to DI today.(He showed me on the card where he wanted to go). After we did his exercises and some words from his paper we went to D.I. He picked up a movie and just looked around. He wanted to go to lunch afterwards, but I didn't have time :( I told him I would come a little later on Tuesday and we could go to lunch then. 

Michael was up stairs and had just finished making chocolate hearts. I even had one. I'm sure that was a fun activity for him. We went downstairs and he made us some coffee :) we  picked more activities and highlighted them on his calendar. We did his exercises and his balance is getting a little bit better. We worked a lot on his words and matching them to pictures. He even wrote some words down and then we did sentences and phrases. He did a good job, I just had to remind him to look at each letter or word first. He even stayed on task and was working hard. We went upstairs and he walked me to the door then went to lunch.

Michael made us some coffee today and we used it all up. He was reading his coffee cup and we talked about Oklahoma; he said he used to live there. We went upstairs and asked about a key, he still doesn't have one. They said they would get him one soon. We went back down and did his exercises and he even counted all of them, he usually stops in the middle but counted up to 10. He did pretty good on his balancing too. He talked about how he needed things from the store. I had him tell me the three things he needed. When we went to the store, I was showing him the better deals on the things he was getting. "Oh ok, get that one". The sun came out for a bit but it was pretty much overcast today. 

Michael was up listening to the daily news. He was having a hard time telling me what he wanted, he even drew a picture for me. I'm glad to see him doing that, he hasn't done that before! I wasn't sure what he was trying to tell me but was finally able to figure out that he wanted to get an extra chair. We decided against another chair He mentioned that he needed something and I figured out that he wants an extra hand held knob for inside of his door. They are also going to make him a new key; he lost his. They said they would have it done by the end of the day. We did his exercises and looked for his key again. He was showing me some things that he has in his room. We worked on some of his words and matching words to pictures. He had a little bit of a hard time focusing. He did good with the word and picture matching though. 

Messing around in the elevator :)

Today we worked on Michael's exercises. He was a little tired today. We also worked on his words and sentences and matching pictures to words and then a card matching game. He had a little bit of a hard time but kept it up. I put the papers by his chair and asked him to practice over the weekend. The weather is finally nice! I hope he enjoys his weekend.