Junior's Amazing Journey

Junior did not have a very good night but ended up having a good morning. He wanted to get in his chair and color. Mellisa brought him a giant Speed Racer coloring book from NC so he was very excited to color the first page.
With his asthma being such a problem lately he has very little energy and just couldn't get his arms to move much. I gave him his switch and told him if he wanted me to help he could now ask. I also told him I wanted him to try to do some by himself because I was hanging up the laundry. Well in the first picture he is serious as he hits the switch and waits for me to come running to help him.
After that the "game" was on. As soon as I would walk away he would hit the switch(it is programed with "help me please") and thought he was very funny. He usually has two switches or his step switcher(we program them with "I want a new color" and "I want to color a different spot on my picture") so he wasn't quite sure how to get me to change colors for him with only the one switch. He quickly figured it out and if I was helping and he wanted a different color he would lay on the switch so it kept repeating "help me please, help me please, help me please" until I got him a new color. He was having so much fun but got tired quickly. Activating even the one switch and trying to get his arms to move to color takes up a lot of energy when he is having asthma troubles. It was great to see him being his goofy self though, I know he is feeling better when he starts being a little tease.


Junior just loved seeing the pictures from Mellisa and Abigail's trip to NC. One of my brothers is a fire fighter and lets him get on the trucks when we are there. Here are a few of the picture.

My parents(Junior does not think his day is complete unless he has talked to grandma on the phone)
Abigail with my two brothers on the fire truck(David is the fireman and Andrew is the youngest 15 yrs)
David took the truck out put the ladder all the way up for them.
Squirt gun wars
David taught Abigail to play Guitar Hero, now she thinks Junior just has to have it.
Junior likes seeing the pictures so much that I am going to have to put them all on a disc so he can watch them on the tv. He absolutely loves any thing to do with fire trucks.