sherriknits

Warning:  heavy photo content, not much knitting today.

This morning little sis and I went tanning.  Confession:  I am terrified of laying in a tanning bed, but I will stick my legs in a leg tanner.  My brother owns the tanning salon and try as I may, I just cannot get in one of those beds!  At least I can get some reading done while I’m tanning and I’m finally starting to see some color after about 6 visits! 

When we got home, hubby and I took off for big sis’s wedding site so we could get the driving directions written down for the invitations.  When we got home from that, silly little boy got to get his toenails cut.  He HATES it and years ago, his therapist taught us this little trick:

Now this is what was shocking!  That little stinker started trying to pay Dad to stop!  Where in the world did he learn that one????

Then it was time to head off for the hour drive to therapy.  We’ve made it a habit now to go to lunch together then  do some (wedding) shopping before therapy.  Here is a day in the life of one silly little kiddo and his “deester”(sister):

This one is for Melissa.  Take note:  pepperoni, cheese, sauce…that’s all!  And of course, ice water!

We did stop at Target and thankfully Dad didn’t accept the bribe to stop cutting those toenails because he had money to purchase the dvd he has driven us crazy for for weeks and weeks.  He was pretty happy during the rest of the time in the store.  I felt bad because he had $17 in $1 bills and when we got to the register, he wanted to count them out one by one for the cashier, but there was a line and he is very slow and meticulous so I had to tell him we knew there were 17 there and please tell the lady here is $17.  Next time, I will let him count it out for me before we get in line, then coach him to hand it to her and tell her what amount is there.  Learning experience.

After many stops and many frustrations for a boy who just wanted to watch his new dvd, we arrived at his therapy appointment.  This year is the first time in all of his life that we have had to go somewhere for OT services.  We had always had in-home visits, but the one advantage to this is that there are lots of things there he has never gotten to experience.  Can you see the fun he had today?

He had fun in the spandex swing and when she would spin it, every time he came around, he’d yell, “hi, Mom!”  We had to take a pic to show him how funny he looked in there!

Big sis is a good sport and she rises to the occasion every time she is called in to action.

Sometimes I get a little concerned she won’t come along when she has to do things like this:

And then getting out with the help of her brother:

I did get a chance to get some knitting done today.  Sis drove up and back so I knit on my shawl and made good progress.  It is turning out to be an easy knit and I got several rows done.  When I got home, I remembered the linen face cloth I was supposed to be working on so I knit and re-knit until I found a pattern that works.  There isn’t enough progress to show yet, but it should go quickly now.

I spent the evening working on that, visiting with a friend who stopped by…and worked on adding addresses to the wedding invitation list so we can get started on those.  Yikes!!!

I am a little frustrated right now, my internet connection lasts about 3 minutes at a time tonight and I have lost this post 3 times.  I guess it’s time for bed!!!!

Tags: my life. Kids. Knitting. Occupational Therapy