I don't have time now to do the linking, but since I haven't posted in forever, and I'm not likely to come up with something else in the near future, and I do want to keep blogging, though I'm likely to get an award for longest run on sentence if I don't put some punctuation in soon... here is Seven Quick Takes Friday. (now updated with link at the end!)
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R is home today. They had parent teacher conferences at his school. Seeing as I talk with his teacher every time I pick him up, AND we have his IEP meeting in February, I told her that I didn't want a conference right now. We slept in instead. I have to get moving here though, since we're supposed to leave town at 11:30 to get to therapy.
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We are seeing some improvement in R recently. He is doing less scrolling, and more effort at communicating. I don't get his morning cereal until he asks for it. Nothing cuter than the sign for cereal and his little voice saying "deal-le-al". Unless it's his exasperated sign for milk when I hand him a bowl with dry cereal in it. He is still saying "Nuk" instead of "milk". So we are still insisting on the mand for milk too, since it's not intelligible to people other than us. So he looks at me like I'm the silliest mom, and signs for milk and says "nuk". If I'm not quick to respond, he reaches for my hand and works on making my hand do the sign for milk. Too cute.
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They are doing some construction on the hill beyond the creek behind my house. I used to see deer up there. Now there are bulldozers and backhoes. We're not sure what they're putting in. It's either a few houses, or a oil drilling spot. I'm not sure which I'm hoping for. An oil drilling spot will be a temporarily loud mess, and if successful, they'd put in a few tanks and a pump, and it's not very loud. The spot where they are working is partially hidden by trees still, so I wouldn't be able to see it. Houses would be nicer in many respects, except that there would be neighbors across the creek. I kind of like looking out my back window and seeing nothing but trees and creek. Either way, it's out of our hands, and we'll get what we get.
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Mac is ready to get his driver's permit. He finished behind the wheel and has his paperwork. So I was going to take him on Tuesday, since he didn't have school (the teachers had workshops, so we had a 4- day weekend). But his social security card wasn't in the file. I searched through every file in the house, and we didn't find it. We went to the SSA office on Wednesday and applied for a replacement. I'm sure that the card is still in the house. I probably had to have a copy of it for some reason, or needed the number and got the card out, or who knows? Anyway, we have an official form that we can use at the motor vehicles office, and we can go get it anytime... that Mac isn't in school, isn't at practice, isn't at piano... so it will be next Tuesday at the earliest, since they close at 4. K will pick up Nina that day and I'll pick up Mac at 3:10 (RIGHT after school), and Mac and I will go get his permit.
Yikes, I'm going to have another driver in my car. Wasn't he just born?
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I am craving oranges just now. The ones at the store have been abysmal. I keep thinking I should look up oranges to see what damaged the crops, or when the best time of year for them is, but then I forget and get busy with something else. But I really want some good oranges just now.
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We discovered that R knows the names of the numbers 0-9. We can point to a number and he can tell us the name of it. Now to work on the concept of using numbers... but it's a nice start to know that he knows the names.
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It's winter. Which means that it's time for Klondike. Yep, the time of year when hardy Boy Scouts go camping. Intrepid scouts brave the elements and participate in many winter games.
Of course, the expected high today is over 70 degrees. I hope that they can stay warm enough.
To be fair, it's not going to be all fun and games, since when it gets this warm in January, it rains. And then the temperature will fall, so tomorrow night, they will have almost winter conditions at 35 degrees.
K asked if I wanted to go. I told him that I'd think about it - most likely, I'll go out for the day tomorrow. Our Boy Scout camp is less than an hour away.
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I'll come back and put up the link to Conversion Diary, since that's where this Friday thing started. It was helpful to just put up 7 paragraphs and not have to think much first. Perhaps it will break this blogging block I've had.
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