George was having a nap on the porch today. He was dressed and ready to go though. I told him I was here and he came in after a bit. We went back to his room and did the usual. When he was ready to go, he went to sit on the chair in the living room and wasn’t quite ready yet. He had a lunch skype with Sharon (And Scout) first. ;) We went and got his hair cut today and as usual, it looks really nice. He had it washed too :) I tried to find the Sandy pond (Fishery) again today, I had the directions but they were off. It started raining really hard, I called Fran and Tom to see if they wanted to come over (They had called earlier to see if they could come over) they only stayed for a few minutes. I asked George if he was hungry “Just a little bit.” I got him a little bit to eat ;) (I had him give Tom and Fran one of his soaps that he made too.)

3D sidewalk art

Candy store

George combed his hair really nice today to have a lunch skype with Sharon :) They had lunch together and visited. He took a nap on the living room chair afterwards (Trevor came home and talked to Sharon on skype too. It was funny cause he wasn’t expecting her to be there “She scared me.”) When George woke up I had him get on the bike, he was only on for just a minute, and he asked “Who bought this?” I told him Sharon did. “It’s not for me”.  :/ (He tried though) We did some exercises and then went to Gardner Village; I think we went to all the shops. There were a couple places that would be good ideas for lunch. It was relaxing. We got to spend our day outside but got to go in the shops to cool off. He bought a coke and a candy necklace at the huge candy shop they have there. I was going to show him the fishery pond but couldn’t find it, again. :( (I’ll look up directions) Places were closing and I had to leave anyway. It was a good day.

(I have a couple more pictures on photobucket and added one of Wheeler Farm on Monday's blog.)

When George was ready to go (He was dressed when I got there) I thought we would go get a haircut, I showed him the card and he nodded yes, but on the way there, I remembered she doesn't work on Monday. We went to Olympus Burgers and got take out and took it to Wheeler Farm. The sprinklers were on but we got to sit by the kids play area. When the sprinklers turned off we walked around, fed the ducks and looked at the cows.We went to a shaded area and he took a nap and I rested. I was going to take him to the Sandy Museum (I found it online, thought it would be interesting) but they were closed too! They are only open Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. There was another place I thought of but when I called, it was a wrong number :/ we went for a long drive and stopped in a flower shop... cause it was there. When he got home, he took a shower. It was kind of an uneventful day but we were out for a while.  
(I just remembered, while we were at Wheeler Farm we saw 2 older guys that were racing a small remote truck, as we passed they said, wanna race? We raced it down the sidewalk haha) :)
(There are two more scenic pictures at Wheeler farm on photobucket)

 

George had a soap making class at the Senior Center today at 1:30. When I got to the house he was still asleep (He had been up earlier). I kind of rushed him to get ready to go. We made it on time. He didn't know what he was making but by the end I think he knew what he made. His soap turned out really good :) He had that proud smile on his face ;) (He chose black raspberry vanilla as the scent for the soap). When we were driving to lunch, we saw one of the Harward Farms tents and he picked out some corn "1/2". We were going to go to the park after lunch but he was done. He came home and got ready for a shower on his own. (He must have been hot?) It was a fun day and they are having the soap making again in November I think. 

George was sitting up on the couch; it looked like he had just woken up. Maybe he took a nap? The curtains were still closed when I came in. I took him back to change and do ‘the usual’ teeth, hair, shave…When he was dressed he had some lunch. After lunch I showed him Trevor’s videos, he watched those for a while and thought they were cool. We looked at the road atlas and I showed him where he used to live, he said “oh Tacoma, I lived there.” and I showed him where Sharon and David live and then Don. I tried to do some of the word search but he wasn't too interested. We did the exercises on the list from PT, he did a good job. He went back to shave again on his own and then we looked at pictures of the kids from when they were little. He talked to Sharon, David and Scout on skype :)

"Ohh That's Trevor"

Dennis had a Birthday dinner for Ryan's 26th Birthday at the house. George had a shot with the 'guys'. "It's too strong". 

Happy 26th BD Ryan!

Sharon drove back to Minnesota this morning. When I got to the house, George was dressed and ready to go. I walked in saw his bike and we talked about that, we took turns getting on it. How cool! He went to sit on the couch and he asked me to come and sit with him. He was saying that a guy came over to do exercises and that a girl came over and made him ‘unbutton his shirt and get undressed…it was embarrassing’ of course he was talking about his Occupational Therapist ;) He said ‘first day’. I told him she just wanted to see how good he could do things with his hands. I had him shave before we left; he put on his shoes and grabbed his hat and was ready to go. I showed him a couple cards and we went to Living Planet Aquarium. He seemed to enjoy it. I don’t know what I was thinking though, tons of kids today. Afterwards we were in the gift shop and I put a mask up to my face, he smirked and I had him do it too. We went to South Towne mall after cause it was so hot outside and to get something to drink. We went to Orange Julius and walked around the mall. We couldn’t go downstairs because the elevator wasn’t working; we got to see a lot though. We went for a drive after that, he fell asleep and when we got home he said something similar to “Whew” it was funny.  I had him get in the shower after he layed down on his bed for a few minutes.

George was dressed and ready to go. He just had to put on his ‘new’ shoes. :) We went to Park City Olympic Park to watch the ski jumpers. There were a lot of young kids today. George had part of a hotdog and a drink while he watched. I think he had a good time. He handed me my keys when he was ready to go. I didn’t take any pictures, we have lots already. When we got home, he took off his shoes and shirt and watched TV (Well took a nap with the TV on.)

(This post is from maybe last year around April)
Today, dad got up at 10 after getting up briefly to open the blinds around 7. Seems he got a good 10 hours of sleep after being up for most of the day yesterday. He was really alert, commented on the weather (I can't remember exactly, but something like, what's going on--there was nearly a foot of snow this morning). He ate a big breakfast and then got sleepy. I asked him if he wanted to go to the Judo tournament and see Auntie Mamiyo, he said yes. But guess he got too sleepy bc he started making excuses, "you know there's a judo tournament. its a different organization"; I don't belong to that one, but they're coming to me" --something like that. It was cool that he remembered the tournament. I remember last year he wasn't too impressed; he didn't talk about it afterwards other than to complain that they're not doing it right--too much force. Anyway, we didn't want him to just sleep the day away, so Don and I got him up. Once he cleaned up he was ready to go out. We first went to the barber shop..sorry, Jody! We took advantage of the opportunity. He really enjoys the treatment and he got a really nice haircut. Then we went to the cemetary. He got out of the car and stood there to watch a group of people at another grave site (looked like they were having a party). He pointed the way to get to various places (harada, the japanese plot across the street, etc.) After that we went to Sage Market. He really got into shopping! He pushed a cart around and kept finding stuff to put in. Nearly all of it said, "hot and spicy". He's never wanted to buy so much before. I think we came home with about 10 things he picked out. We ran into Hideo and Kayoko. He always runs into someone he knows when we go there. Dad always has a twinkle in his eye when he sees someone he knows. But he didn't want to talk with them; he just looked away. They haven't seen Don in a long time so that was really nice for them to catch up. When we got home, dad had a really good appetite (for the stuff he just bought). But he made an odd dish with Asian noodles and ramune (like sprite), portobello mushroom, onion, peas. He was most happy about the takuan (pickles) and was chewing a long time and was very alert and content looking out the window (turned out to be a beautiful afternoon). After dinner, I found a show on tv called "too cute" featuring kittens. But the cable box wasn't working. He kept telling me just wait; it'll come on eventually. But I kept playing around for about 10 min. It must have worn him out because when I finally fixed it and showed him the kitten show, he was asleep! Once he starts winding down (esp. after meals it seems), it's hard to keep him awake. He was sleeping sitting up, so by 9pm i helped him to his bed. He was so tired he almost crawled in with all his clothes on. I hope he gets a solid nights rest. I wonder when he'll wake up?

Jody and I took my dad out to Snowbird on Thursday. Pamela,the person who sells the rocks, remembered us as usual. She's SO nice and likes Jody and my dad a lot. When Jody asked if we could just bring him up sometime and reuse sand (to save money), she actually went and got a bag full of used sand. She said that George was special and that she doesn't do this for anyone else. My dad wasn't too enthusiastic about the rocks at the beginning but got into it toward the end of the bag. He kept looking through the sand even after the gems were all taken out. And good thing, a marketing person (Gwen) came over and took pictures of him and chose his photo for the photo of the day. It was put on Snowbird's webpage and facebook. His photo got about 60 "likes" within a couple of hours!

George and Pamela

George and Gwen

George on Snowbird's web page for picture of the day!

George and Sharon at Snowbird Mining

It was fun to see George today :) I know he has been up to a lot lately, can't wait to hear all about it. He was watching the Olympics in his robe when I came over. We went back In his bathroom to get ready for the day. Sharon and David put in a new floor in his bathroom, it looks nice :) After he got dressed, we had lunch outside, watched the birds then worked on a project. We looked at some pictures of him in the helicopter with Sharon and David. He took a small nap while I cleaned up a bit. We went for a drive afterwards up to the mountains. It was a really hot day. We came home and he watched the Olympics. He wasn't talking to much but was talking through motions. I mentioned the helicopter ride while eating lunch that he took with Sharon and David. He looked up at the sky and motioned a helicopter.