Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 09:27
Trinity absolutely loves the dance shows. Me too. Our favorite show of the summer is "So You Think You Can Dance." She gets so excited when they are performing. Runs around trying to do whatever the dancers are doing. She remembers the dances names...Her favorites anyway. Katie and Joshua. She also knows the ex. producers name!!! Nygel Lythgoe...She amazes me with this. You never know how deep a river runs....
I would love to get her into dance this fall. I have no idea how this might work out. I don't want her singled out and set aside while the other kids are dancing...I don't want her made fun of...I just get this big knot in my stomach thinking about it. I have asked her if she would like to take a dance class, and she said YES!
Guess this one will require prayer. She should have this opportunity. Send us your prayers ,if you will , that we will find the right place to do this.
Today Wyatt only dug up the house plant (again), threw the contents of a box of Cheerios out the window, squeezed out all of my eyedrops, and lobbed five pounds of tangerines around the house. He also found a more dangerous way to climb the walls of the tub to get into the shampoo and stuff that we set atop the frame of the glass doors. He now accomplishes this by straddling the sides of the tub and then stepping up on the soap holder indentation while holding onto the washcloth bar.
Oh yeah, and he took off his poopy diaper in the other room, unbeknownst to me, and then put his shorts back on. At least he set the poopy diaper on top of some junk mail on the floor. Then he went a little more in the shorts. I do applaud the effort at independence, I really do, but he stepped in the shorts poo and tracked poo smears all over the house, like one of those family circus cartoons.
Bad things can happen when a parent tries to take a 10 minute nap.
The program supervisor says Wyatt is bored and needs to have his leisure time structured down to the minute. Uhg. That sounds like just as much work as cleaning up all of his boredom messes.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 21:04
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Submitted by Todd Fugere on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 13:39
My family LOVES to play games. One of the newest ones we've been hooked on is a dice game called Farkel. It's similar to Yahtzee, but way more fun.
I think games are a great way to bring family together. Some other's we like are: boggle, sequence, backgammon, othello, battleship, monopoly, phase 10, uno, cribbage, pictionary, mexican train (dominos), tri-ominos, upwords, gin rummy, blackjack, poker and sorry. We also have ping pong and air hocky downstairs. Not to mention a ton of yard games that we play (when it is nice out). We also play video games togther. We have Wii (Wii bowling is the best) and Playstation 2 (Guitar hero rules!!) and Playstation 3 and I think I have just about every old school video game ever made on my laptop.
So yeah, we are complete game junkies. It's a great way to spend some quality family time. I don't think there is a day that goes by that we don't play something together as a family. Give Farkel a try if you haven't, it's really fun and addicting (cheap too, I think it goes for around 10 bucks).
Submitted by Todd Fugere on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 10:41
One observation I've made so far is that it's mostly Mom's around here doing the blogging. I sometimes feel like I'm the only dude around here.
Do you think that guys don't need to express themselves as much as women? Is it because guys don't have the time to blog? Are they not interested in meeting others? Is it the baby blue site? What do you think is the reason? What do you think we can do to get more men using AB?
After reams of paperwork, it seems we've been approved for Medi-Cal. Woo hoo! We got a notification of approval in the mail today. Hopefully we can begin using Medi-Cal soon to get prescription diapers, plus pay some medical co-pays. I'm not entirely sure what else Medi-Cal covers.
Yesterday we had a big meeting with our local Regional Center. We were approved for four more hours of respite per month, which brings us up to 16. I know other people get a lot more, but I think 16 is going to work well for us right now. We always use the time to go out and about, so four more hours per month equals about one extra "date." We will spend money on food and entertainment during that date. So really, getting more respite hours can create additional expenses unless you discipline yourself to do something good for you like take a bike ride.
Also at the meeting they agreed not to reduce our "life skills" hours which are currently at 6 hours per week. However, they stressed that they are restructuring our program so that the tutors will basically be my mentors. I think the plan is that these hours will end when Wyatt is 5, but I'm not positive.
