It has been a few weeks since Junior's hospital stay and he is slowly regaining his energy. Yesterday he even managed a fairly lengthy school session.
Here he is ready to work. Sorry there aren't pics of him using his ipad during the session. He is learning about growth so we planted seeds so it was a bit hard to run the camera with my hands covered in soil.

When we started his history he started complaining so I pulled up his "I need help" board and he quickly told me he needed to get out of his chair, then that he needed a treatment.

Now that Junior is feeling better I hope to post much more often.

Happy Valentines Day

Things have been a bit crazy since our hospital stay but are slowly getting back to normal. At some point I will get back to regular posts but am still a little overwhelmed at the moment.
Please feel free to follow us over on Junior's regular blog in the mean time.

Happy Valentines to everyone. The sun came out which means Junior's asthma cleared and we were able to have a nice day. Even got out for a walk.
Junior used his ipad during our Valentine's fun. I got to hear him say Happy Valentines Day and I love you. Something I never thought I would hear. The best Valentines gift possible.(sorry about the angle on these, hard to see in the pics what he is looking at)
making tie dye hearts, he was also making a giant heart window decoration.

Junior's says Happy Valentines to everyone

I Need A Treatment

Junior has been sick the last couple weeks with the stomach flu as well as a UTI. We also had some crazy weather thrown in so his asthma was giving him fits.
When his asthma kicks in I get told this multiple times a day.
(yes, he requests to have treatments)
He and his tubie monkey having a treatment(a very sad face)
Once the treatment starts to work his big smile returns
We decided Junior needed a buddy just like him so meet Tubie monkey(we talked about many names but Junior was set on calling him Tubie)

Sunshine and Ipad Fun

Things have been so busy and I haven't had a chance to post here. So for now I will just share my latest post from Junior's regular blog which shows his ipad in action.

This morning it was cold but the sun was shining. Junior wanted to go for a bike ride but with him recovering from his illness I knew he wasn't ready for that. Instead we went for a nice long walk.
Ready to roll
And we are off
Once we got home we did a little fun school work on his ipad. We are slowly getting back to his regular schedule. It can take awhile after he has been ill and I have learned by experience to not push it. We looked at some new apps I had gotten over Christmas. Several face book pages posted when apps were temporarily free so we have a lot of new ones to check out.
This one ended up being too easy for him but he still enjoyed it because it was set up like a game. Shoot the fish that have a word with a specific short vowel sound. To make this work for Junior I would let a few fish "swim" onto the screen and then pause the game so he could pick(look at) the fish with the correct word.
This is another one we found to be too easy for him but he still enjoyed it. The cloud has a picture and he needed to match the raindrop with the correct beginning letter. When the correct letter is chosen a storm begins with lighting, thunder, and rain, then flowers start to grow. If only there were apps out there which looked age appropriate but focused on lower reading/math skills(1st-3rd grade range). Both these caught his interest and because of the "game like" play they were closer to being age appropriate for him. An app like this but with the ability to match a picture to a word or a picture to a sentence(with difficulty adjustments) would bring it to a perfect level for Junior. They still look a bit young but the fun factor allowed him to over look that. After checking out a few more apps it was time for a craft project and Junior wanted to listen to a story. We are starting a winter unit(ice, snow, cold, and all things winter) so we made a snowman. Love doing crafts on the lightbox.
Listening to the Arthur Christmas story on his ipad
Look at that face, think he is just a bit into the story
Too involved in the story to stop for a picture with his snowman

We are doing an app giveaway over on our Adaptions blog so feel free to click on over and check it out.

Go Army

Junior showing his team spirit(my little brother is a West Point cadet so we are Army fans)

Christmas Ornaments

I posted this on Junior's regular blog so will post it here as well since Junior was using his ipad during our activity.

Today Junior made a couple of Christmas ornaments during his stander time. The idea came from this blog, be sure to click on over and see some of the other awesome ideas found on the blog.
These are called I Spy ornaments. Junior had a blast making them and has been playing with them all afternoon.

Ready to put the "snow" in his ornament(actually colored epson salts)
Checking out what he has added so far

Telling me what to add next
Yelling for me to look at his ipad
Was having a really hard time getting a good picture of the ornaments, I kept getting a glare.
One of them on the tree, though it won't stay there. Junior likes playing with it too much.

Snow

Snow is not something we see where we live and one of these days I hope to take Junior to experience the real thing.
He absolutely loves to play in the insta snow so today at the end of his school we made some snow then talked about snow and cold weather. He was using his ipad to answer questions about snow. He kept giving me a funny look when we talked about it being cold, his snow is not cold.

Amazing that such a small amount of the insta snow powder grew to this amount when we added the water.
Answering a question about his snow
After playing in the snow I asked what he wanted to do next. Since he had done a good job during school and not complained we had more time then usual before his treatments.
Junior decided he wanted to draw on the window with his window markers.
We used some stencils to draw Christmas things. Kind of hard to see in the pics but he wanted Christmas trees, snow flakes, and a gingerbread man.
Junior was in quite a goofy mood today and every time I asked him something he would respond with "maybe"(ipad). He then thought he was just so funny and would break out in giggles.

All that activity wore him out

This post was from a few days ago and at the moment Junior is sick. Please keep him in your prayers for a quick recovery.