Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Cloud Study

Woody has pretty much stayed in today except when he went out and got the mail. He is still allergy snuffly/drippy. He has read, watched TV, played Scrabble on the computer and entertained a grandchild or two. We had school as usual for a Wednesday. Elijah had a good morning. He is really working hard on learning the sounds that the letters make...really showing a lot of interest in them now. He is also starting to understand about counting objects. We are excited! Esther is going great guns with her reading. Today she started reading the Super Books. These are eight page books that are just about totally phonetic. She read two of them along with a Bob Book...that had a lot of stories in it. She read, read, read! Then she went downstairs and read some verbs to Goosey (Woody) and then "acted" out the verbs. Joy read and then had sewing. She finished a present for Elijah...a little suit that he will wear next winter. She chose a machine embroidery design (a snowman) and the colors of embroidery thread that she wanted to use. Then we stitched the design out on my sewing machine. Today she finished it. Abigail completed bringing her sewing notebook up to date and then we rewarped the lap loom that they got for Christmas and she started weaving. She is going to use what she weaves to make a purse. After lunch I headed off to church to work in the library. Once again we got a lot accomplished. While I was away several of the grandchildren came over to play, be read to, etc. When I got home, I was greeted with a lot of building accomplishments that they had completed while they were over here. They had out a set of Lego-type blocks, all the spools that I have saved over the years and several other building sets and had made quite a few things. They cleaned them all up before heading back home. Before Graham left, he brought his temperature/barometric chart up to date and also checked out what types of clouds were floating through the sky today.

I forgot to mention in yesterday's blog that Woody received a call from Dr. Rosenberg's office at NIH that morning. Dr. Rosenberg is the head of the research that Woody's melanoma study/protocol falls under. We don't hear from his office very often. They were checking to see how Woody was doing since his stay in the hospital a month ago. Dr. Rosenberg was part of the team that checked in on Woody when he was having the kidney stone problem at NIH last month. We only saw Dr. Rosenberg periodically when Woody was in for his three-week stay back in 2010...we mainly saw the physician and the fellow and other underlings on the team who were assigned to Woody's protocol, but once in a while the "head honcho," Dr. Rosenberg, did appear with the team on early morning rounds.

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