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.”
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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, …
Asher’s Quote of the Day
Yes, Asher (16 months old) is talking. Mostly easy words like, “mama,” “baby,” “Jude.” But, last night he scared the heck out of me by jumping off the bed like the way his much bigger brothers do it. Then after Levi knocked the wind out of himself by jumping off the bed in the nursery …
Successful Story
It was another successful funny story last night. Jude didn’t throw up, but did get the hiccups. He said of my funny story, “You made me get new kinds of laughs.” He then went across the hall to where Andy was laying down with Levi and said, “If you thought I was screaming, I was …
Jude’s View on My Work
Jude is definitely never happy on work days. He lives for “stay home days” and thinks it’s just awful that I only get 2 stay home days a week. Nevertheless, he thinks I have a great job. He offered up his thoughts on my job last night. He said something like, “You get to look …