Paul's Update - 01/22/07

Dear Friends:

I apologize for not keeping up the last few days. All is OK ... just quiet. Paul is feeling better than he was last week. Friday night was Bobby's birthday dinner. We went to the Akasaka Japanese Steak House. Paul always enjoys that. We had a great dinner and then the ladies there play a birthday song and put a balloon hat on the birthday person. They bring a bowl of ice cream with a candle too! Some of you may remember the hat from Paul's birthday!! Anyway we had a good time. Saturday Tabby's parents and brother came to visit. Tabby's dad gave her his old computer and he set it up for her. Bobby & Jen went to a hockey game. That meant getting up early (11am is EARLY for Bobby!! LOL). Dad & I went out to El Agave for lunch with Bill & Ronda. Paul didn't go since Gladys (the nurse) had already given Paul his lunch. Paul did some practice standing up with the walker that evening. When he feels good he can do this quite well. At bedtime Dad asked Paul if he was OK and Paul nodded yes, then dad said "do you need something?" and Paul nodded again. Dad asked "what do you need?". Paul SAID "coke"!!! All dad had was Sprite Zero but Paul said that was OK. This is pretty amazing ... he doesn't usually answer us with anything other than a yes or no! Tabby went out with Bobby & Jen Saturday night. They enjoy doing Karaoke so they went out to continue the celebration of Bobby's birthday. Sunday was Paul & Tabby's 7th wedding anniversary. They didn't do anything special but Bobby remembered to get Tabby flowers from Paul!! Maybe next year they can celebrate in a more appropriate fashion!! Sunday Max came to church with Pap-paw. He was doing well until one of the other babies began paying attention to him and he all of a sudden got upset ... Pap-Paw had to take him out. Oh well ... I guess he needs more exposure to other children! Tabby went to Carolyn & Billy's to help with the cleaning out of Franny's bedroom. It has been several months since she passed away and it is time to get things cleaned out. Billy's Aunt came over to get some of her sister's things that she has been wanting. They are making good progress! That afternoon Paul went upstairs to watch the football game. He hasn't been upstairs much since it is hard for him to get in and out of the bathroom up there. He stayed up there until almost 6pm. It was snowing all afternoon. It was a beautiful snow but the road became dangerous very quickly. Dad ended up staying overnight so that he could be at Paul's first thing on Monday. Tabby started her new job today. She likes the place and everyone was very glad to have her. Tonight Tabby worked with Paul to do his numbers (he did one to ten without even using fingers to count with), he did all the letters of the alphabet (with prompting), he did all the months of the year although he had some trouble with January & February (they are pretty hard). Dad has been working with him to be able to say his name. He can do it some of the time. As you can see....our lives are busy even though not much new is happening with Paul. He continues to do well. We are so grateful that he continues to make progress. Many of our days seem to be the same but as I've said before we have good things happen all the time! Thanks for your continued prayer ... our God continues to give us strength and blesses our lives each day.

Love & Hugs, Lynne & Carl