Getting on Schedule

With team training coming up soon we are working hard to get Junior on a better schedule.  He is not a morning person and exhaustion makes him more likely to end up sick or more likely to have a seizure so it can be a challenge. 
When things throw his schedule off it can take months some times to get back on track.  We are slowly making progress and today we were only about half an hour from our goal wake up time for him. It helped that he actually slept much of the night.  Our other big thing we are working on is his stamina.  More time up in his chair, more time outside, more overall activity.  Team training is going to be a busy time and having him prepared will give him the best chance at success.

Junior is doing really well even with the struggle to get on a good schedule.
He has just rocked right past 17 weeks seizure free and has now gone 1/3 of the year without one single seizure.   This picture has 121 days but we are now finishing up day 124 seizure free. 

 Working on learning all about dogs before we go to training.
 
Fall decorations went up out on the porch this week, though the weather seems to think it is still summer.

 Lots of walks, time in his swing, and other fun stuff. 

 Trach change time, hard to believe this smiling kid used to melt down at even the  mention of a trach change.  Now he is a champ about it and even lets me know when he needs it done.

  

Watching NCIS, his new tv show obsession.  We were trying to find something to get him interested in since Bones is being removed from Netflix next month.  Thankfully within a couple episodes he decided NCIS was quite exciting and binge worthy. 

Just chilling and waiting on me to be ready for his walk. 

 More outside time yesterday evening with Abby. 

 Board games with mr. competitive.

 Art time this morning, Junior loves "swatting flies".  Very messy but oh so much fun.  He also worked on a fall craft project but it is drying and will have to wait for pictures until later. 

 Junior's giant fly swatting artwork that he is sure needs to be sent to grandma. 

Today he was just 15 minutes off our goal time for waking up and being ready to roll.  Tomorrow we try for our goal time.