Astronaut Training

Jenelle is back in Occupational Therapy. We noticed that Jenelle hates any activities that involve the vestibular system (that is your inner ear). She did a lot of crying this summer when she should have been having fun.



Some activities include:
riding a bike
tubing down a river
swimming
summersaults
anything involving heights
kiddie rides at the amusement park

So we are doing a program called astronaut training. It involves A LOT of spinning. Jenelle sits on the office chair and I spin her. She can spin forever without getting dizzy. You're supposed to get dizzy. I get dizzy just watching her. Anyway, her vestibular system seems to be sleeping. We hope all this spinning will get it working normally. We are spinning every day of Christmas break! Let's hope all this work will make the summer a little less scary and a lot more fun.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! We went to church on Christmas Eve. Jenelle sat with us for the first time and she got to hold her own candle during the candlelight part. She woke up Christmas morning very excited. Santa brought her too many things. She got a grown-up scooter: it has two wheels instead of three. She got a keyboard. She got new underwear and pants. She got a magic set and shrinky dinks. She got a new Wii game and some other little things. She also got a new bean bag chair for her room. We thought she could read on it, but so far the Webkinz have enjoyed it more than Jenelle.

On Christmas day Grandma-ma, Jim, Chris, her dad and Zack came over for dinner. We had the usual turkey dinner and all the fixings. The kids had a great time playing together. Grandma-ma polished off a bottle of chocolate-mint Bailey's Irish Creme. We'll be sure to get another bottle for next year. Curt polished off quite a bit of wine himself. Grandma-ma can handle her liquor better than Curt can.

We finished off the night by playing dominoes. Jenelle and I were a little sick this year for Christmas. We hope to be better by New Year's.