Last Tuesday the boys found a mater costume that someone gave me last year at the consignment sale. They got it out and "towed" each other around for a while.
Because of the timeline I was dealing with on Tuesday, Eli was forced to come to Aiden's therapy (OT and Speech) for the first time. Eli did a good job playing by himself for the majority of Aiden's speech therapy appt.
Ms. Lisa was nice enough to let Eli do some stuff with Aiden. Aiden had a blast on the swing as you can see.
Eli thought the scooter board and did pretty well on it.
He tried to do some of the same things that Aiden was doing but he struggled a bit more with a beading activity and got a little frustrated.
Aiden is doing better with his writing. He is trying more but I almost always have to correct his grip but at least he's not completely breaking down and crying every time I try and fix his grip. Here he in OT with a weighted sleeve on his arm so that he has to work his muscles a little more and it provides some stability.
I went down and got my mom last week and brought her back up with me. Here are the boys eating a popsicle that I just bought them. It was Eli's first one and he wasn't really sure what to do with it.
Eli is such a little cuddle monster after his night/nap time and here we are cuddling after he woke up from a nap.
We had an afternoon park date last week. We met up with Sydney, Allison, & Jordyn. It was beautiful outside and the kids had a blast.
We got a group photo of the boys and I with Nana and Bronco. Bronco enjoyed going down the slides for the first time in a while.
I also got a picture of all the kids. They all get along so well.
Aiden really wanted Nana to watch him play on the iPad last week and she happily ablated him. Eli tries really hard to use the letter program that Aiden likes so much but he's just not ready for the fine motor control that is needed.
On Friday afternoon, we went to beach at Amelia Island and met our friend Sue and her boys. It's been a while since we've had Aiden at the beach and trying to get wet at the same time.
It was a great time to go because it was low tide and there was like a small narrow river all along the beach. It was perfect because Aiden was much more relaxed because he knew the waves wouldn't get him and that the water wasn't too deep.
Here is Aiden posing with Nana.
Of course Eli didn't mind getting wet and sandy real quick. The water was quite cold but that didn't keep Eli from standing and sitting in it. Here he is showing me his sand castle mold that he filled up with the shovel.
I was so proud of Aiden. Sue told me beforehand that I should bring a big dump truck or something so we did. Aiden pushed it all over the beach after he got comfortable. Some places were deeper than others and he got a little panicked at times but did a great job. He must have done 20 laps back and forth with the dump truck before I finally convinced him to give it up and let one of Sue's boys borrow it.
It was a good trade in Aiden's mind to give up the dump truck. He then got to take the bogey board all over the place and he thought that was pretty fun. He carried that thing around for a long time.
Eli finally stopped playing with the bucket and shovel and got a bogey board too and thought he was pretty special.
Eli hopped on Aiden's board when he was in the sand but Aiden couldn't really pull him on the sand.
We told Eli that was a bad idea because he was going to fall over/off the board and into the cold water (and even though it's shallow, it's definitely deep enough for Eli to drown. The boys each got a board and walked around for a while towards the end of our stay and they had a great time. We ate dinner at Sue's house and then headed home about 6:30pm.
On Saturday morning, we went to Lowe's for the Build and Grow workshop. The activity this week was mini chalkboards. I pretty much helped Eli and my mom helped Aiden. They both did a good job of hitting the nails with the hammer.
I'm not so sure why Aiden is hitting his head with the wrong side of the hammer. I asked them to say "cheese" for daddy and this is what they gave me.
Eli really liked his chalkboard and continued to write all over it.
Aiden earned his Fish game on Saturday too. He had to go two nights in a row with no wet pull-up and then he could try a night in his regular undies and stay dry. He finally made it and his reward is this fish game. He gets it taken away if he wakes up wet and can earn it back when he can stay dry (hopefully the next night). I've only had to take it away for a night and that's just because he wanted to wear a pull-up (it was even dry) but I need him in real undies. Regardless, here are the boys playing the game.
Here is Aiden working on the iPad again with Nana watching.
The boys do a pretty good job of sharing the iPad and taking turns although sometimes Eli is a little stubborn and wants to play the higher level/coordination games that Aiden can play.
On Saturday night, my mom watched the boys so I could go to dinner with some girls from church and then we went to see the Peking Acrobats which was a lot of fun.
I had to include the pictures below to show that my kitties love the iPad too. Here are Pouncer and Twix playing with the Friskies free app. They love to chase the fish on the screen.
We've had a great time with Nana here so far. The boys love seeing her and it's great for me to have my mom around too. Here is Eli towing Nana.
On Sunday night, it was pajama night at AWANA's. Eli found the tricycle in the kitchen because my mom was going to clean it while we were at church. Well, as you can see, Eli decided to ride it around the house and found some sunglasses too. This kid is full of personality.
We had to go to church early to help setup my computer so they kids played around with the microphone for a bit for the first time. They loved hearing their own voices. Eli was cracking me up. He kept stealing the microphone and wouldn't share with Aiden and he was dancing around as he was singing. I have a cute video I'll have to post soon.
I've been so impressed with Aiden lately. He know a few songs and doesn't mind singing them out loud. It makes my heart smile. He sang "Jesus loves me" when he had the microphone and then he busted into a melody of the ABC's.
We have a few more days left with Nana and plan to enjoy them. I've put a lot of work into get stuff ready for a consignment sale tonight. I'll update about that next time.
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