HAPPY 4th of JULY!

Tuesday July 1, 2014

I brought over paints and paint brushes for Michael so he can paint his birdhouse. I brought different colors and he said he wanted red and blue. I asked him if he was going to make a 4th of July birdhouse, he said he was. 
He was all smiles as he was doing it. He ended up choosing

a couple more colors to paint it. We let it dry and went up to lunch, he was telling me that the girl up at the front desk wanted to see it. He was in a hurry to get back to his room. He picked up his birdhouse and took it right to the front desk and then he took it to the dining room and showed some people his birdhouse too. He is so proud of it! I love it! We went outside by his window and put it in the bush. That way he can see it and watch the birds. (When he was done with it, he said a couple of times "That looks alright, don't it?") I'm glad he liked this activity :)


Friday June 27, 2014

When I came over, Michael was showing me his flowers. They died :( Maybe we put too much seeds in one pot? We'll have to get some flowers that are already grown. He had is dresser area all set up with his birdhouse on newspaper and a chair. He was already to start his project. It was cute but I had to explain that we are going to do it on Tuesday when we have a little more time. I like that he is excited about it! We worked on his exercises and a few words and then he went up to lunch. 

Tuesday June 24, 2014

Michael showed me his flowers today. They didn't make it :/ we'll have to go out and get some that are already grown and put those in his flower pots. We did one set of exercises and read a few words, he was telling me in his own way that he needed to get more bird seed. He decided he wanted to to out to eat too. We went to 'the place on the corner' Burger King, had lunch and then went to Walmart to get some bird food. I showed him how much less it is there than at Backyard Birds. He said he would tell Jerry about that place (Walmart.) We went to Michael's craft store and got an unfinished wooden bird house for him to paint. We will do that on Tuesday. We saw Cody at Michael's. He works at Highland Cove. He wanted to go to Walgreen's too on the way back but I told him we could do that on Friday. 

Friday June 20, 2014

We just had time to do exercises today. We were going to go and get some shaving creme but Jerry got that already. Thanks Jerry! I left out some papers that I asked Michael to practice. He said he would. They were the fill in the blanks and reading words, phrases and sentences. 

Tuesday June 17, 2014


Michael was telling me today that he needed a bigger bird feeder. The one he has now is too small and the birds really eat up the food fast. After his exercises (He had a really hard time counting today) we went to Backyard Birds and bought a bigger bird feeder and some bird food. It was really raining today! 

Friday June 13th 

We missed the flag ceremony but had lunch on the patio for father's day. It was a a nice lunch. I

The flowers are coming right along!

took a picture of Michael but it turned out too dark. Michael said that Jerry was going to come and get him later and they were going to go fishing :)

Tuesday June 10th

After we finished up exercises we had lunch upstairs then went to Dollar Tree and the thrift store next door. He liked that one. It's pretty big. He sometimes says things that make me laugh. I forgot what it was but we both laughed about it. We want to get him a birdhouse but one that is wooden that he can either paint or decorate how he wants to. 

The week of June 3rd and June 6th I'm not sure what we did but we did end up going out on Tuesday  

Michael showed me that he got some birdseed for the birds :) Now I know the place he was talking about. Thanks Jerry ;) The seeds that we planted on Tuesday are already starting to come up! We worked on his exercises and he even did the first set all the way to 10! We worked on word, phrases and sentences and fill in the blank's. He needs to work on those some more so I left the paters out for him to look at. He told me he would practice them. We took the long way around the building to my car and then he went to lunch.

When we were done with exercises, Michael chose to do his word/picture matching. I gave him a choice out of three different things to do. I had him tell me what each item was used for. He was showing me that he was out of bird food. He couldn't remember the name of the store where he got it before but I mentioned going to Walgreen's cause it was close and see if they had any. They didn't have any so we bought some seeds and went back and planted the seeds in two of his pots. It will be fun to watch them grow. We will probably get a full grown plant or flowers and put it in his other pot. We took the long way to my car, it was a nice day. 

Today at Highland Cove, they were having a Memorial Day luncheon outside. It was nice and overcast to keep it cool. We did one set of Michael's exercises and then worked out with his weights. He was telling me that he was going to go fishing with Jerry. He was showing me something in his fridge, I thought it was going to be food but it was a carton of worms! I wasn't expecting that... It's supposed to rain so they will try to go fishing on Monday.