Koopman Kraziness

It's been a long, long time since I cried happy tears.  As one of my best friends told me when I shared it with him today, "It's about time you had some of those." Kamden went to Occupational Therapy today and was put back onto the Pedalo.  The first time he was put on it, we did ONE time up and back down the hallway and he cried and fought it the entire time.  It works not only on core strength, but also on coordination skills and the ability to self correct foot and hand positions.  He was FLYING today.  His therapist could hardly keep up! This may not seem like that big of a deal, but my gosh...  I wish I'd taken video of him that first try so you could see the difference for yourselves!

Kamden is still working hard in occupational therapy.  He's a sneaky little thing though and likes to play tricks on his therapist by pretending he doesn't know exactly what she's asking him to do or "accidentally" going the wrong direction on the scooter boards.  Thankfully, his therapist has an amazing sense of humor and will just laugh with and tickle him and put him back on task.  This week, Kamden's task was to walk himself down the hall using his heels while seated on a scooter board, select a bead in a series listed on a card he'd drawn and scoot back.  Then he had to string the bead onto a long shoelace, find the card again, select the next bead in the series and repeat.  He did really well - save a couple of distracted moments where he ran into the physical therapy room and had to jump on the trampoline.  After finishing his bead task, he was to work some on writing skills.  Ms. Marcia asked him what he wanted to draw and naturally he answered...

Well, right where we've been for ages, but quite a bit busier than we have been in a while. Jeff started work at a local car dealership about a week and a half ago and has already made his first sale.  He seems to be enjoying the work (pretty much anything to do with cars is a winner in his book) and the people he works with.  As irony would play out, we had a HUGE hail storm just a couple of days after he started there, so he's getting the challenge of selling cars with hail damage.  He wound up doing two interviews the day he turned in his application and then was sent to do the standard drug testing.  The job had to have been appointed of God, as it took less than 4 hours to get his background check and drug tests back.  I haven't ever heard of either of those things coming back so quickly.  He does work primarily on a commission status, so it's nerve wracking to not know exactly how much our income will be monthly, but I feel good about it all. I st...