Colin rocked the Science Fair!

Colin, Priscilla and Karyna spent the day finishing up Colin's science fair project.  Finished writing, printing, matting, gluing, etc.  Finally, done!  Priscilla brought it over to school and set it up.
I napped (had the boys last night and Casey was a total restless mess).   I had help from Ryan Nelson on how to make Colin's experiment pictures and videos into a slideshow.  So easy once he walked me through it. 

Decided that Gene and Casey would stay home because Gene was feeling pretty crappy and Casey has his ear infection going on and was pretty tired out.

Aunt Chris came and we got ready to head out.  Called Priscilla and Rick to let them know we were leaving...she was there already with Rick.  Rick (Priscilla's husband) is such a good sport and came to help tote things and hang out.  Told us to park out back and drive up on the sidewalk (it was okayed for us to do that).  So we had a perfect spot.  What a Zoo!!  But I really think they did a good job with set up and that kind of stuff.  Everybody had a table and a number and it was pretty organized.

Colin had to be at his table to be judged from 6-6:30.  We set up the ipad and looked around and chatted and not too long later the judges came.   Colin got shy when the judges came and shut his eyes but Priscilla talked to them and explained how he did things and how much work he put into it. I think they were impressed. 

After he was judged (and we have no clue as to how he did or what the rubric was for judging) we toured many of the projects.  Lots of great ideas and hard work in the gym!!  Colin talked with some of his friends and had a good time.  He really was excited!  My favorite part was a hug from Tom Keblin, one of Casey's middle school teachers.  He is teaching at a different school now but came back to judge and see his old cronies.

Daddy and Casey watched Emergency 51 while we were gone and had a fine time.  I think they missed us a little bit, though.  So all in all it was a successful evening and all went smoothly.  Pretty impressed with myself since I drove and parked and got Colin in and out all by myself and we had no equipment snafus or any mishaps.  Whew!

Scared for a second

This morning I had to go to Kinney's to get some photos printed for Colin's science fair project.  I haven't hardly been out at all lately because of the weather, scheduling, and trying to stay away from sickies.

I did my thing at Kinney's.  Headed home.  Turned left into our road and what do I see???  An ambulance stopped in front of our driveway.  HEART ATTACK!!  I had my blinker on and then after a beat or two I saw that the two people were laughing/grinning so I guessed it wasn't for Colin (Casey was at school).  They pulled back into the road after another couple of beats.  I ran into the house and didn't hear any beeps and saw Gene in the kitchen so I knew for sure things were okay.  WTH???   I recognized the man driver as one of the first responders that came in December when we called 911 for Casey.  Maybe he was telling the other person about the boys or maybe it was just a fluke that they stopped where they did.  Anyway, I was shaking and my stomach wanted to throw up.

Took an early nap and tried to regroup.  The boys weren't very good sleepers last night as they were both restless for some reason.  I finally gave Colin Tylenol and that seemed to help.  Between them being restless and me having a crimp in my neck, laying on Colin's feet two times to make the pulse ox go off, Casey's pulse ox going off because I pulled it off with my foot, Moxie sleeping on my face, and Nugget batting things off dressers--I did not have much sleep.

But, I managed to get up and do the routine; let dog out, feed dog, feed cats, turn on computer and coffee maker, make k-cup, take meds, give Casey meds, etc.  Then I got Gene up (well, actually Jaxon did by jumping on him while he was sleeping on the couch) and we got Casey into his old room and I started washing him up and getting him dressed for school.

Julie came and took over finishing up Casey and I helped Karyna do Colin.  Phew, done, everyone was ready on time.

Funny thing...I was walking towards the wish room and something caught my eye outside.  It was Barry, the bus driver, shoveling a path for Casey :)  Gene had taken my car out of the snow bank and made a mess and Barry must have seen it.  So I sent Casey on his way with two of my homemade rugelachs...one was supposed to be for Julie but she gave them both to Barry.

Oh, and Julie reported today that while Casey was on break today he fell asleep!  He had been grumpy and vocalizing a lot so he had to take part of his break (he gets out of his chair and lays down) with no music, magazines, etc.  She checked on him and he was totally out!

Another Wednesday

Today was a pretty average day.

I tried to get some little things done that I've been putting off.  Pretty successful.  Laundry, kitchen, straightening, etc.

Colin was pretty good in school today.  Emily, his intensive needs teacher, came for her time after school today and he was a little crazy for her.  I guess she wanted to know if he'd like to write an email to Meghan Smith (a consulting teacher that works with his team) and see if she could come over to help him and Priscilla with some compute stuff (getting things together for his Humanities project and his Science Fair project) and he kind of flipped out (well, for him that means saying "no, no, no" and getting all big-eyed).   He's funny that way.  He likes things to be a certain way and having her come to his house was not the normal way he sees her.  He usually sees her over the VGo robot or on Skype.

Oh, I did a little videoing of Colin and Priscilla doing the start of their science fair project.  He had to drop and time 4 different objects from the same height.  

Casey had a tough day and he was very loud.  Paula (his para) was out unexpectedly and he had someone who hadn't been training on any of his schedule or DynaVox.  He knows her, but not in the way of being his para.  So, that threw him for a loop and I'm sure it threw her for a loop, too.  Poor Nancy came home all worn out, ha ha.

Julia came and dusted/cleaned Casey's room so that's a good thing.  She also took care of a bunch of the avocados that Mel's in-laws had sent up to the boys to add to their formula.  She gets the good meat out of the avocado, puts it in the food processor, blends them to a mush, puts them in little med cups and then into a Tupperware and then into the freezer for future use.  It's a time consuming project but good to get done.

Gene worked from home today.  He also made his concoction of 2 different kinds of sausages, purple cabbage, potatoes and apples.  He does it in the dutch oven and it comes out pretty well.  He sent some home with Julia for Grandma and Grandpa, Julia had some, I did, AC did and Gene did...batch was almost gone!

AC came and had me work on the Lego game where they got stuck yesterday.  Finally figured it out and we made some progress.  Colin was very happy.  Casey did some maps--hmm, I don't think he even asked for football on the ipad all evening.