Day 1348. Yesterday only Randy and Sammy left the house, as Sammy had physiotherapy in the afternoon. I had a few students, and so Tammy and Emmy were watching videos or playing until Randy and Sammy returned.
This morning I left the house with Sammy at 10 am, after having dressed the other two. Tammy came to the door with us and was sad that she couldn't come along. I had asked Sammy whether he wanted me or Daddy to go with him, and he wanted me. And that's why I was going, as I could have done work at home and could have cooked lunch. Instead I asked Randy to make omelets for us for lunch; he was able to start on them before our return.
We walked to the subway, rode it for two stops, then walked. It was a warm and sunny day. I was short-sleeved and had not even brought my jacket. Sammy was talking during our whole trip, but was quiet as soon as we were with the speech therapist. We got to the center a little early and sat down in the waiting room. It was my first time there without a mask, as the mask mandate was lifted with May 1st. As usual, the speech therapist was late; her intern finally led us into the room.
The intern was also the one doing the whole 45-minute session, with the therapist sitting to the side and jumping in from time to time. They started with a track for balls. Sammy put the ball on top, and it rolled down the track hitting a bell on the bottom. He just loved it and was laughing a lot, especially when the ball would fall to the floor, or when he'd throw it on the floor, making the intern scramble to go pick it up again. He played with that for a long time.
Then she got out a little barn and some barn animals that they talked about. She got a little cup of water to give to the animals, but then Sammy drank it and kept asking for more water that he'd also drink, having lots of fun with their astonishment that he'd drunk it once again.
Then the session was over, and we left the center to return home. Sammy was a little wet, but it was so warm that I did not even put his jacket back on him. We walked to the subway and rode it home, arriving around 11:45 pm.
Randy was making his famous omelets and had just finished the first one. I put it on their plates, and we all sat down to eat. Tammy and Emmy ate all their omelet, which was a first. Only Sammy didn't eat much, but then he'd had a lot of snacks being out and about. All three still had icecream, then the kids started one of the movies we had brought home from the library. Randy left to go to the grocery store and run some errands.
At 1:15 pm I put them to bed, and by 1:30 I could leave them. I started preparing for my afternoon lessons and lay down just after 1:45, setting a half hour timer. That's all the time I had to sleep, and I'm not sure I actually did sleep. I looked at my phone just before my timer went off and turned it off so I would not wake the kids up. Emmy was up about the same time anyway, maybe because Randy had just returned. And a few minutes Sammy was up as well. I had just started teaching at 2:30 and left to get him out of bed and put him on the floor. I then taught for one hour and had another student for my second hour. At 4:20 I finished and got myself ready to leave the house.
At 4:30 we all left the house together. Nobody needed a jacket, even though we were short-sleeved. We rode the subway, then walked to the tram stop and got on the tram already sitting there. We only rode it for one stop, then walked the rest of the way to the school. Once the previous class had ended and the people come out, we went inside the classroom.
While there was a huge number of people there last week, there were only a few today. The teacher started with a variation of the first activity we always do. She played music that everybody was supposed to dance to. When the music stopped, everyone was supposed to stand on a newspaper. After every round, we folded the newspaper up so that it was pretty small in the end. Then we unfolded it once with every round. I was dancing with Sammy and simply rolled him over the newspaper. Sammy himself wanted to dance with Emmy, who came around a few times to take his hand and dance with him briefly. And so did Tammy.
This activity took a while. After we were done, she told us to make a paper plane out of the paper and have it fly. And so we started folding, and the kids enjoyed throwing the make-shift paper planes. Then the kids came up with making balls out of them and throw them. Of course they targeted me, and I'd pick them up and throw them back at them. They were having great fun.
Then we sat down in a circle. I had Sammy who was not in a good mood. She had everyone do some stretching exercises. Tammy tried to do them, Emmy didn't care to do them. Instead he climbed up on Daddy's back, with his legs on the pillar behind him. Then the teacher asked them to pretend to be different animals. I put Sammy on the floor, who was finally happy again. For some reason he kept crawling to one of the Moms and interacting with her.
After a few more animals, it was time for the final song that Sammy had been waiting for: the alarm clock song. I put him back into the wheelchair, and he then walked in the circle that way. Tammy wanted to hold my hand, and so I had her hand in one hand, and the wheelchair handle in the other. And then the class was over.
I took the kids to the bathroom, then we were the last ones to leave. We walked all the way back to the subway and rode it home, where we arrived at 6:30 pm. I think it's just the cutest picture of Emmy and Tammy walking hand in hand with their new sunglasses and caps.
They sat down at the table, and I brought them food, one item after another. Randy then left on a second-hand pickup. After a while the kids went into the bathtub, where they continued eating. We were still in there, when Randy already returned. Then we started getting them out one after another and getting them ready for bed. We sat down for a few Bible stories, then I prayed for them and flew them into bed. It was already 8:30, when I sat down by them. Sammy wanted Daddy, but the other two Mommy. Then Emmy said Daddy could come, but Tammy did not want me to leave at all. After a few more minutes Randy took my place, while I went to the kitchen to make a big pot of soup for tomorrow (and the day after). I had to boil for an hour, so I sat down at the computer to work, even though I was hungry. At 10 pm it was done, and I got some of the soup to eat as dinner. Then I continued working.
Now it's 1:30 and I've already finished in the kitchen. It's time for bed.
