the big news would have to be my first solo driving experience! keziah, emanuel, and i took johnny j and LOVEinsky (i officially decided this is how you should spell his name) to get them enrolled in an aids clinic...kez had to meet some people at the airport so i took her there and then went back to the hospital ALONE to pick up emanuel and the kids...it was a great success...i did make one u-turn but that was just b/c all the kids who beg at your windows distracted me from making the turn...i did know to make it! and besides, anyone who knows how i feel about u-turns knows it would have been as good a time for me if i hadn' t gotten to make one...the boys have lots of appointments coming up as they get going in the clinic so i think this will be a trip i will be doing in my sleep eventually...
i feel like we made a huge breakthrough with frantzo, the child who was affected by a stroke...in spending time with him we have discovered that he knows a lot more actual words that we thought and the appropriate uses for them...now if i can just get him to take that finger out of his mouth and use them more often and more clearly he can get what he wants without having to cry ALL THE TIME! he loves music and he can sing the e-i-e-i-o song....he will sing it forever...so i have made up motions that require both hands to go with the animals and he copies me which gets him using that left hand that we need to strengthen and improve motor function on...he loves it! his birthday is this week...he will be three...and i am really excited about the possibilities!
speaking of songs...i was rocking a little girl to sleep the other night and i was singing to her...i started singing the "hush little baby..." song and i realized that it is much easier to come up with things that rhyme to buy the baby and the what those things will do or stop doing to cause me to buy baby another thing when the child doesn't speak english...i was gonna buy her a monkey's tail...but if that monkey's tail won't swish...mama's gonna buy her some slimy fish...and if those slimy fish smell bad....mama's gonna buy her a launching pad...you get the idea...you just have to be able to sing it without laughing or she will never fall asleep....
poutchino has started a new medication and so far has been seizure free since then...he is so interested in walking and he pulls himself up and hangs on to whatever he can find to get around...that is really great news b/c it means he has an interest in being more independent and learning more...he is also vocalizing more...no new words but more sounds and sounds that seem to indicate different desires...he is so beautiful...someone who lives near me should really take him home. anyone interested?
i am really trying to learn creole...kez helps a lot and so do the nannies...and kervens....even the kids help me! i even had a creole lesson in the local store we shop at (one stop)... the cashier, manager, and even a security guard were all helping coach me on what to say - it was hilarious!
being here...being with the kids...meeting their families...walking down the street...looking at their stars...driving on their roads....waiting in these hospital waiting rooms....it all makes me see life so much differently and just see it so much...well...more...
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