WEEKEND WRAP-UP - Not much up with us

Not much to report since my last blog update. I was supposed to go to an IEP meeting for Colby on Friday, but it got cancelled at the last minute. It's rescheduled for Thursday of this week. Friday night I actually went out with friends for dinner and then to see a band. Don't even know the last time I did something like that. Had a great time. We're going to get together and do it again in November. Whoever said hangovers get worse as you get older sure wasn't kidding. I had a few drinks, didn't get totally carried away/wasted, but still had a bit of a headache on Saturday morning. Just can't throw them back like back in the old days. But I'm thinking that's probably a good thing.

No nurse yesterday. How many times have I reported that lately? I would call the nursing agency and say hey, we need more weekend coverage, but it wouldn't do a bit of good. I've called and said that I bet 20 times in the last couple of months. Don't get me wrong, I love it when it's just Colby and me. But seriously, I couldn't tell you the last time all of Colby's available shifts were covered in a week's time. We have 5 nurses on Colby's case, one full time and 4 part time. Looks like we need to find us a 6th! My mom came over and helped me get Colby up. Then she helped me study my pharmacy math/word problems for a while. Studying for that test is not going well. Totally stressing me out! My dad came over last night. The Moose Lodge had their annual member picnic and he brought me some grub. Best pork chop I ever ate! Wish I was chowing down on another one right now.

We've been using the vocab builder on Colby's eye gaze. This teaches him where specific words are. Hard to explain. Basically on Colby's "home page" there are 84 pictures/words. Yes, he can navigate among 84 tiny pictures, and he does it with amazing accuracy. So you can go into vocab builder and tell the eye gaze the words you want Colby to learn. Then when you go back to the home page, only those words will show. Make sense? Right now we're teaching him basic words like go, get, make, read, you, up, teacher and a few others I can't remember. Then the teacher sent home the vocab words they were going to use the next day in class. So the speech therapist showed me how to do the vocab building thingy, and now I'll be able to do it any time the teacher sends home a new list of words they're working on in class. Yesterday he did a fabulous job focusing and working on vocab. Today, not so much. That's okay though. Not forcing it on him, because we've learned the hard way that just doesn't work with Colby.

You know what I've been doing all day. Yep, watching football, along with trying to get some housework done. Basically all I wanted to get accomplished over the weekend was to pick up stuff and get organized. I spent the whole afternoon moving crap around from one room or corner of the apartment to another. Great googly moogly we cannot get a house soon enough. Now I'm just waiting for the Colts game to start. C-O-L-T-S Gooooo Colts!! So I'll wrap this up for now. Need to get my nachos ready before kickoff. More soon.