Sneaking in a Little School Work

Last week was quite a week and Junior is still trying to recover.  He is a lot better but still gets tired quickly and is spending a couple hours on his bipap each afternoon. 

This morning he woke up smiling and ready for some fun.  I knew that his energy wouldn't last long so we needed to make the most of whatever activity we did.  I wanted to do some school work and he needed some exercise so I decided to try to get them both in at once.
I got him up in his standing sling and helped him walk back and forth across the room then put his knee braces on so he was putting some good weight on his legs.  He stood at his sensory table and had a great time using a ruler and scale with his toys, snow, water beads, etc.  A perfect math lesson but he thought it was just a whole lot of fun.  He loved telling whether an item was lighter or heavier then another.  We would make a guess first and then put the items on the scale to see if we were right.  We then measured different toys to see which were taller.  He has an app called Measurement HD which he does great with but this hands on activity let me know for sure that he totally understands the concept of measuring things.

Here are some pictures from our math session.
In this pic I had asked him if the penguin was lighter or heavier then the ninja turtle. 

 

 I didn't add the word bubble to these pics but in the first one he is telling me the jeep is lighter then the cars.  I then reversed it and asked if the cars were heavier or lighter then the jeep so in the second pic he was telling me the cars are heavier. 

 

  

Yesterday Junior had his dental cleaning and though he wasn't exactly happy about it he still did very well.  He now has a sparkly clean smile.  On the way home we stopped to see some very good friends and it was so nice to visit.  These are friends I have known since my teens and their daughter is the same exact age(to the day) as Junior is.  Michelle and Junior have been buddies since they were about 3 and love hanging out together.  Please be praying for Michelle.  She has been struggling and in the coming weeks will be having trach surgery.