Summer Goals
Before school got out, which was just last week, I wanted to think about summer goals I had for Emma. I will set some goals for myself as well. And Mason, well he’s along for the ride! Although one thing we’ll work on is writing his name. Anyway, back to Emma. I decided I was going to keep it easy. I mean, it’s still summer! She has 2 goals. The first is to swallow pills. If you remember this post, you’ll know that it’s not something I really know how to teach. It’s interesting, though, that she started taking an interest in preparing her medicine. She will take it all by herself, but the preparation is where the time commitment comes in. There’s the crushing and dissolving of pills. And juice and applesauce are heavily involved! So her taking an interest in preparing is a good first step. On Sunday, I simply asked her to swallow one of her pills, the cortef. And she did. It took a few big gulps of juice, but she got it down! We are now halfway to that goal. She will swallow her cortef and levothyroxin. My next goal (starting next week, perhaps?) is to work on getting her to swallow the capsules. Undeniably bigger in size, but perhaps easier to swallow because they’re gel-coated and slippery? We will see. It might be a struggle that involves a reward at the end. As well it should. Wish us luck!
Her last goal is to move out of the pull-ups at night and into underwear. We have pull-ups mostly for insurance as she’s dry in the morning about 98% of the time. But I figure that if she has any accidents, cleaning it up in the middle of the night will be a lot easier if we don’t have school the next morning!
And, as far as Emma’s habilitation gal, so far so good. She met with Emma on Monday and said Emma did really well working. I think that having a routine of work will help a bunch. She will work Mondays from 9-12 while Mason and I are out of the house. We’re going to shoot for Tuesdays as “field trip” days. And Thursdays Emma’s hab gal will have both kids. But I will insist they work at least one hour. Mason can do a lot of this stuff already.
So, that’s my plan as of now. Of course things can always change!
Do you have any goals for the summer??
