Amy and Colby: YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

Let me take a moment to brag, Colby has done very well at school the last couple of days. Meaning he hasn't cried. You know how factories have those signs, we've gone 50 days in a row without an accident? Well, we started that for Colby and his crying at school. One week we were able to say, Colby has gone 3 days in a row without crying/whining. If he makes it through the day without whining and crying, then the day has been a success! Today he also drove his power chair forward quite a distance in gym class. As many of you know, Colby has a propensity for driving his chair in circles. Lots and lots of circles, continuous circles. So it was nice to hear he actually drove forward today. Tomorrow, however, could be a whole different story. And he could whine and cry for no apparent reason, drive in circles and/or not drive at all. Never know with that boy.

We hooked up Colby's Supersoaker gun so he could use it. First you have to tape down the trigger to the on position. Gotta love duck tape! Then put a battery interrupter on the negative end of one of the batteries. Then make sure the batteries stay put in the battery compartment. More duck tape, please. Then hook Colby's switch into the battery interrupter. Then he's ready to shoot! We hid him around the corner in the hall when his high school buddies came over on Monday. He soaked both of them! Yeah! Then his other high school buddies were over today. So we hooked up the Supersoaker again and went outside. One of the boys drove Colby around in his chair, and Colby was having a ball shooting all of us. That Supersoaker has some range, I'm telling you!

How's the house coming along? What's new with the house? What else have you gotten done at the house? I hear these questions quite often. The answers are, in order, slowly, not much, and very little. We do have beautiful new steps. Can you see how much better the pitch is on the before and after pics? They are also wider, so now my life won't be in danger when I go upstairs and come back down. Redid the steps going down to the basement, too, as they were a little shaky. Literally. The roof was supposed to go on 2 Saturdays ago, but it rained. That is rescheduled for this Saturday. Praying to Mother Nature, please no rain this Saturday. Then they will leave the dumpster at the house for a few days so we can load up the boards and concrete removed when doing the steps. So that's something, yes? We do have a final floor plan. That's something, too, right? There may be a couple little tweaks here and there, but for the most part, it's done. And absolutely beautiful, I might add. It took several meetings and discussions to get it where we need it so there is enough room for Colby to get through the house easily in his wheelchair. Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin' there in your ghost manger, I hope we've done it correctly! Never completely redone a house before, and certainly never tried to make a house handicapped accessible before! Now we're getting bids for a ramp and deck. Also we have dug up some nasty, ugly bushes and planted a tulip poplar in the front yard. Sweet! So I can't say we haven't been doing anything at/with the house, it's just kinda slow-go right now.

Oh, and fundraising. Need to get working on that, too. We've had some materials and labor for the house donated, but are in need of many more items. Like I said, Colby and house. House and Colby. That's pretty much how I roll these days. Okay, wrapping this up for now. Peace and love, everyone.