TOOTH SHMOOTH

Let me tell you just how cool my kid is. Yesterday I brought out a mirror and showed Colby where his front tooth is now missing (hey thanks "local hospital"). I asked, "So Colby, does it bother you that your tooth is missing, yes or no?" His eyes darted to the NO answer! Love it! He was like, gee Mom, who gives 2 craps if I have both my front teeth or not? Yep, that's my boy. He also sat up in his Tumbleform chair today, the 1st time sitting up since August. He sat up for a half hour, no problems. Probably could have gone longer, but I didn't want to push him.

Colby has also started home hospital schooling. Not sure how long he'll be doing that, however long it takes to build up his strength/endurance. Don't want to send him to school and have him struggle. He'll have it 2 days a week, 1 hour each session. The teacher doing HH is Ms. Mackenzie. She teaches at Churchill Park but she's not Colby's regular teacher. Yesterday they worked on getting to know each other and worked on his "All About Me" book. He was using a switch to operate scissors and helping her cut out the pictures. Then they worked on eye gaze, making choices. Ms. Mackenzie (am I spelling that right?) said she was very impressed with Colby's eye communication. Well yeah, the kid's a freakin' genius I tell ya. Wouldn't expect any less. Wait til she sees him use his communication device with eye gaze. All I can say is I hope she likes knock-knock jokes.

I've been making a gianormous "to do" list, trying to figure out what has to be done before next Thursday (my surgery) and what can wait til after. Trying to figure out if there's anything I can pawn off on anybody else haha. Even though I've felt a bit overwhelmed at times, okay, practically every minute we've been home, I've loved hanging out and taking care of Colby, working around the apartment. I still plan to buy a house. It's always in the back of my mind and my realtor still sends me listings. Just don't know if it would be the best idea at this moment considering everything else that has been/will be going on. So with that said, I've decided to make the best of living in this apartment. This means room-by-room cleaning, organizing and purging and I'm totally geeked to work on it right now! I'm throwing out crap right and left. I intend to keep doing it until the clutter is gone, Colby's room is arranged in the most efficient way possible for all his equipment and supplies, and I'm proud and happy to call this dump my home again. It'll happen, but just like anything else around here, will take more time than it would for someone else. And what the heck, I'll go ahead and take the Spongebob border off the walls in MY bedroom now since Colby and I switched rooms last December. And I wonder why I'm single?!

Shhhhh, listen. Hear it? It's that Reese's cup over in the candy dish calling my name. Better go see what it wants. Nite all. Keep it classy.