Home stuff...
Ed, with a little help from me ripped up the old bathroom floor and put a new one down. We took out the old wall board and replaced it. We had a new pedestal sink installed and now I just have to fix the wall paper border and paint the door trim. It looks so much nicer. Joe's room is the same, although we are going to be taking the crib apart and setting up a bed for him soon. The living room just needs a few paint touch ups and I painted the stairway, YUCK. The wide hallway between the living room and kitchen has been staged as an office and the porch is being used as a dining room. Kitchen cabinets need a quick coat of paint. Laundry room needs the most TLC, planning on attacking that on Sunday.Joe stuff...
Joe is doing great. He sees his teacher three times a week and his speech therapist twice a week. Next week he is starting a play group that meets every week. He is starting to learn the sign language which is very exciting since this is the first effort he has made to communicate with us. He is so funny, when he gets excited about something he sees that he wants to talk to me about his little hands start doing every sign he knows and a few that are just plain made up and then he looks at me as if to say did you understand that? He now knows and uses the sign for eat, drink and more, he is beginning to understand change for his diaper and we are working on thank you and help as well. Oh and his favorite, all done. He is also using a few simple sounds for some of the animals, he calls Jasper, Ja Ja, he is even more thrilled when we call the dog that way. Tonight he wanted to sit in the driver seat of the truck and pretend to drive so he walked over to the door and pointed while saying "up". He has been saying up for a couple of weeks. After "driving" for a while he turned to me and said "Down", (first time). The N was barely there and he said it pretty quick but I was very excited none the less and made a pretty big deal about the word down. My son thinks I am fun but a little crazy I'm sure.
Despite his busy schedule with teachers we manage to get ourselves out to the barn everyday to visit the goats, horses and chickens. Joe is very much in love with his critters and takes them all apples that have fallen off the tree next to the house. Of course they are not always appreciative of his efforts since tonight he has started throwing them in the water tank. The three horses spent 20 minutes trying to get one apple before they gave up and walked away. Well all but Dancer, she waited until I fished it out for her. Of course a few more apples went in the tank and the horses all tried in desperation to get them before they went in but Jasper actually jumped up and bit their noses from the opposite side of the fence if they tried to take an apple directly from Joe. So with me on one side and Jasper on the other Joe giggled as his horses bobbed for apples.
Well it is getting late here and we have a busy day ahead of us tomorrow.
Love you all, Nikki
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