A Visit from Pat and Madeline....

Our weekend with Pat and Madeline went by way to quickly!!! It started off kinda crazy though....they got here about 2:30 on friday, Eric was home, but I was still out picking Josh up from his MDO program. Then, as I was pulling up there was another car in front of our house and I realized that it was Amanda, the speech therapist! WHOOPS!! Completely slipped my mind that I forgot to call and cancel for last week...seriously, that term 'pregnancy brain' totally applies to me at the moment. I've heard about it, but never really believed it and thought it was just an excuse phrase to throw around. Well, not so much...in fact Eric has wondered how I've gotten through the day a couple of times(with Josh). I mean, Amanda comes every Friday at 3...not that hard to remember.....anyways, talk about a crash in on Josh's routine... He comes home from school, later than normal(mom was running behind...again, I'm usually early to pick him up), Amanda was waiting for us, then there are 2 other people in his kitchen on top of dad being home early!!! WHOA...his world was overloaded(and mine). However, we were so impressed with Josh. He handled everything so well, didn't get too thrown off, and sat with Amanda for 45 minutes doing his therapy while Pat, Madeline, and dad talked in the kitchen!! I thought about it later and realized that a year ago..that would not have been possible. Even 6 months ago he would have been running in circles and screaming trying to regulate himself. He has come such a long way with his therapy...from transitions, using his weights, social stories, keeping strictly to his routine...seeing him in this unexpected situation(thanks to mom) was so encouraging!! Ok, rambled on long enough about that...Amanda left, but then...so did Eric!! He has great luck sometimes, really he does....(can you catch my sarcasm) ;) One of his OB patients went into labor that afternoon and he had to go back to the hospital to do the delivery....SO, welcome to our world Pat and Madeline!! :) It was so funny to me. They get here and we were all over the place!!! But, that's why we love them...they are so easy going and laid back, oh, and very entertaining that it wasn't a big deal at all. The rest of the weekend revolved around food, playing with Josh, eating, oh, and we went to the City Museum on Saturday. Eric and I went there last year with my parents, but hadn't been back since. It was still just as weird and eclectic, but Josh had alot more fun interacting with the place. These first pictures are of the no-board skate park. You slide down, roll down, run down, pretty much whatever you feel like doing!

Madeline giving Josh a piano lesson... :)

This was the toddler area....Josh would have gone down that slide forever...

Such great friends....I was really sad when they had to go on Sunday....I didn't realize how much so until I was in the middle of doing laundry, dusting, organizing my desk, etc (I clean to cope)!!

They are great friends! Oh, and Pat put his coat on Josh before they were leaving....kinda funny...and Josh gave him a going away present...he wiped his nose on Pat's collar!!(the last picture) :) I just hope they didn't catch the cold that the 3 of us have been giving back and forth!!!