Improvments

Today, Cass's school was delayed for 2 hours due to a light dusting of snow. She went outside and built a little snowman (it was very little!) on the back of my car. I thought it looked more like a snow duck. It was kind of nice getting to hang out with her this morning.

Randy worked on his list of therapy exercises today. He actually surprised me. When he got up, he, without being prompted, just started in on finishing a sudoku puzzle he had started last night and then went on to work on the other items on his list. I think he is really enjoying doing some of the exercises.

We worked on spelling again and again he did excellent. He then worked on Brain Age. He scored better today on one of the exercises in that game then he did on Monday and he it made him so excited. I think it is important that he see the progress within himself. Now the progress feels very slow and improvements aren't always as obvious as they were in the first few months.

Tonight, the three of us hung out and played one of the Mario Party games on our Nintendo. We use to sit and play that together most weekends. We had tried playing it when Randy first came home, but his attention span was too short and he couldn't figure out how to play some of the little mini games in it. Tonight, though, he made it through a whole game. He didn't do so well, but he use to win constantly so it was kind of nice to beat him for a change. I think playing the game was good for him because it made him at least try to use his left hand and some of the mini games within the game involve reaction times. It was a lot of fun to hanging out tonight doing some of the things we use to do, even though things aren't quite the same.