Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Great Day

I just put this post up on Junior's regular blog and since it is all about the ipad I will just copy it here.

A second day in a row with no asthma issues. WooHoo, loving it and praying the weather will behave so this can continue.
Junior suddenly has a huge amount of energy and is one very happy, vocal guy. He started this morning with a longer then usual stretching and exercise session then spent some time on his therapy ball and swinging. It was funny to watch his face while bouncing on the ball. I slowly moved up to higher bouncing and he broke into this huge grin and then started giggling and if I stopped he would start hollering "or, or"(more, more).
I expected him to need a break before his school time but this kid didn't want to stop. I got him in his stander and then pulled out all his school stuff and he did a full session(and then some).
During his science time he checked out his plants and looked at the differences in them. Measured them and then we charted their growth.
He then answered questions and told me what plants need to grow.
I also asked him what plants we have outside of our house. From his face we clearly have trees around our house.
In history Junior is learning about communities. Today's lesson was on firefighting from our nations early days until the present. He thought it was very neat to learn about how fires used to be put out before the days of the big fire trucks.
Telling me what we do in an emergency(we learned that if you put 911 into his communication program you best put a space between each number or it will say nine hundred and eleven when you choose the symbol)
Junior thought it was cool to pretend this light stick was a fire truck light.
He absolutely loved this fire truck app. It makes the ipad screen the dashboard of a fire truck. We turned the steering wheel, honked the horns, turned on the sirens, hoses, radio, etc. Then time for Junior to get out of his stander, he showed me where he wanted to go next(kind of fuzzy but the top bar shows what he chose, he wanted his wheelchair)
A little ride in his lift to get to his wheelchair.
A little more firefighter fun, then a story.

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