After Levi watched me successfully pee on the potty this morning, he yelled out excitedly, “You win Skittle!”
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Jude’s Quote of the Day
After karate today, Jude and I ran into the dollar store next door and bought 2 items for a dollar each. The clerk said the total was “two fifteen.” Jude said, “How much was it? Two dollars and fifteen cents? I bet the fifteen cents was tax.” The clerk was pretty impressed and wanted to …
Andy’s Quote of the Day
In explaining why our family has the worst time getting to sleep at night he told me that I “entertain” the boys “until they collapse.”
My Quote of the Day
“Jude, can you clean up this Transformer? We’re trying to clean up before the cleaning people come.” (I realized how weird this is only after I said it.)
Jude’s Quote of the Day
He said to me: “Your singing is not the best, but not the worst.” (Nice to know it could be worse. Ha! This actually makes me think Jude may be gifted musically since I think that is a pretty accurate assessment.)
Grieving
Today we are grieving the loss of our neighbor. He was a husband and wonderful father to 2 boys. The youngest boy is 8 and Jude idolizes him and calls him his best friend. He died at home after having spent the past year as #1 on the list for a lung transplant. If only …
Jude’s 2% Robot
Today Jude was playing with his anatomy kit. He got out the skull and brain and demonstrated to me how he thought his brain surgeries were done. He missed the little step about removing a portion of the skull to get to the brain. I asked him if he really wanted to know and he …
Trouble with Trains
For the past 2 hours or more, I’ve been working with Levi and then with Jude on building what I was calling the coolest track ever for the boys’ Thomas the train set. I was even attempting to assemble the Blue Mountain Mystery set that Levi got for Christmas and that took 5 adults to …
1st Music Therapy Session
Tonight was Jude’s first music therapy session to help address his short term memory impairment that appears to have resulted from the radiation. When Andy asked Jude in front of his teacher at the end of the lesson about whether he had had fun, Jude denied having fun. But, as soon as we were outside, …
White Belt with Red and White Tape
Jude was thrilled to earn his white tape on his white belt at karate last night. White on white is barely visible, but it really means something to him. It is supposed to signify that he knows the fundamentals of blocking. This time when they told him to step forward, he was not taken off …