SHOULD HAVE HAD WHEATIES FOR BREAKFAST

Crazy day. Woke up half an hour late. Don't you hate when you do that? Then you spend the rest of your morning chasing your tail. The maintenance guy showed up to do the paint touchups I requested, of course right when the nurse and I are in the middle of getting Colby up for school. He's a sweet old man, but you know how sweet, old men are. They like to talk. And talk. And talk. Yesterday Colby's bus was 20 minutes late. Today it was 10 minutes early. Great. Of course the bus is early on a day when I'm running behind. Maintenance man had to move his paint cans out of the way so we could get Colby out the door. While driving down the hall, Colby's nurse accidentally ran his wheelchair into the wall and put a huge dinger in it. Hey, no biggie, stuff happens. She's been with us since July, so I guess she was due. Everyone who drives that chair puts a dinger in the wall at some time, like a rite of passage. No problem. Hey maintenance man, since you're here, can you fix the dinger in the wall?! I was getting ready to walk out the door to work and realized I didn't have on my ring! My Colby ring. The ex gave me that ring when we found out I was pregnant with Colby. I'm extremely sentimental about that ring. I looked. I searched. I panicked. Couldn't find it. Cried a little. Long story short, it somehow fell off and was in Colby's bed the whole time! Thank goodness. But I spent 7 hours freaked out thinking I had lost my Colby ring. Just a weird kind of day. Surprisingly enough, I'm not drinking tonight. Eating Campbell's soup and saltines. Woo-hoo. What is wrong with me? I should be booger-faced by now.

I'm busting at the seams to tell you what Colby did on eye gaze today! He was at school and first of all, he did his schoolwork and answered questions appropriately. That alone is good for him. Then the teacher told him he could do something he wanted to do since he did his work. These were Colby's next words on eye gaze, "put in Spongebob." He made a complete sentence! A for real, appropriate, totally kickass sentence! How about that? I'm so proud of him! Good job, sweet boy. Then later in the day he said another sentence on eye gaze, "Do I like popcorn?" Haha. He is making such wonderful progress.

Okay, I'm getting tired and am going to bed. Just wanted to share Colby's eye gaze story for today. And thought you might get a kick out of my crazy day, too. It's NEVER dull around here, that's for sure. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Guess we'll find out in about 8 hours.