Day off Friday

Julia has the day off and I want to try a few things with her before her therapists come at 3.

Julia has been drawing for 2 hours. She is working on her 7th drawing. The first one that she made, that started with a big zero in the middle is the most interesting. She works carefully, intensely, getting excited some of the time, but so obviously enjoying every minute. She now stops at time to sharpen her pencils. We have to get her a better sharpener.

Two hours and ten minutes: Julia stopped drawing and is on to playmobil with hospital and dino scenarios. I did not give Julia her meds until 11 to see if there is any difference for her afternoon therapists. They usually get her on her way down. We made a schedule that included walking the dog, cleaning up toys, washing clothes, paiting, reading work, framing a picture, and playing with makeup.

Julia's appetite has returned. It is off from the school's schedule of and 11 am lunch. She is verily happily eating two pieces of pizze and a bottle of ensure at 1. She did lose another pound in the last three weeks but I hope that she can gain back what he has lost by the time we see the doc again -- 4 weeks away.

We are doing our reading work -- word bingo for Julia's current sight words. Amazingly, she did not reject the game out of hand like I would have expected. This is the same time we played this at home (I don't know about school) and she handled it well. We will do some reading and then some works book pages in math and reading (still in the kindergarten books). And then, I promised her a new make up game.