A plain old summer's day

Casey woke up early today.  I think Nurse Julie may have had something to do with it, ha ha. 

Casey wanted to watch Brother Bear this morning so that was what we did.  Casey is always thinking of Colin and making sure he is happy and wanting to do things with him :)

Casey had his shower.  Then Belly time and books.  I don't think he's really enjoying the one he picked from his reading list so we may have to change it.

.Colin had belly time.  Then he and I read from our Ghost Hunter book.  He was very excited and a little freaked out.  We practiced using the digital voice recorder that Aunt Peggy got him for his birthday.  And we played with the Ghost Meter (EMF=Electromagnetic Field).  I'm sure we'll never actually find a ghost.  Between the noise from his bipap and whatever electric particles his vent puts out, we'll never catch one, oh well.  It will be fun to try. 

It was HOT and muggy today.  Poor Gene worked and inbetween ran out and got some sand to level the area for the pool and later on he put the pool up one-handed.  It's filling up right now.  He put the ladder together but we still need to do the filter/pump and that kind of stuff.  It looks so nice and fresh and clean!!

What else.  Julie and I worked on getting Casey's Pandora, Gmail and Facebook on his (my old) ipod touch.  And figuring out his email and texting on his DynaVox.  Casey has used it but not often and we're rusty. 

Lots of wii played.  Julie and Collie played two different games while Casey worked on a Sponge Bob game on his DynaVox.  He is determined to do it.  But it's not easy.  You can't see the whole screen and he has to move the screen around and use clicks and it's all very cumbersome but he can do a lot of it himself.

Aunt Chris came and they played MORE wii.  Julie was able to get us passed the point in Where the Wild Things are that we couldn't do.  I was blaming it on a faulty Z button but Julie managed to get through.

Poor Gene worked his butt off today between work, the pool and other things.  Now he's off using his Price Chopper discount on gas.  I don't even know which vehicle he took.  There's always so much to do around here.  I wish we could scale back on "stuff".  Some of it we need, of course, but some-not so much.  And, the more you have the more you have to maintain and repair and clean and it all takes so much time.  Blah.

I made avocado plops today.  (avocado in the food processor and then put into med cups and into a container and stored in the freezer).  Formula, laundry, started putting away supplies and that's about it.

Now it's 10:00.  Staci is going to read a bit and then it's lights out for them.  I may watch a little Orange is the New Black on the ipad in bed in the AC.  Hopefully, Gene will get the boys' AC going tomorrow, although Staci said they weren't too hot sleeping last night.  I know it's hard for me to sleep when it's too hot and stuffy.