Mands: 16

Today we started off with some Jo-Jo and the Wiggles. Tony was eating waffles, chips, and chicken. We danced around with those Wiggles, they’re dancing fools. Marlaina felt dizzy and so I followed Anton to the Jiffy Lube so he wouldn’t have to walk home.

When Tony was ready to go into his room we did some painting actually, he did. He painted on paper and on his bird house. I just let him paint – I was busy opening, closing and rinsing. In a little while Tony wanted to go for a car ride. One problem: the car was at Jiffy Lube. Tony was getting worked up, so I decided we should go outside. I pointed to the empty parking space and said the car was gone. He sadly said “dye-dye corrr,” and waved at the empty parking space.

He actually got over the car ride issue and we went for a nice walk. There were two houses he seemed to want to go into; Tony Boucher’s and one two houses to the right of it. He walked up the sidewalk to the door. I didn’t follow him, so he came back and pulled me by the hand (gently) then he touched the door and the door handle. Each time I told him they were not his house and nobody was home so we couldn’t go in.

When we got back home from the walk he was reminded of his desire to go for a car ride. The car was still absent, so Marlaina who was gardening at the time came up with alternative: we coulk play with chalk on the sidewalk. Tony and I drew a lot of things on the sidewalk and we used every color we had. By the time we were done with one section there was hardly any plain sidewalk showing at all.

There are glutens in the chalk so we went into the bathroom to wash our hands. We spent a long time in there. Besides washing his hands, Tony also brushed his teeth, sat on the potty, and turned the lights and fan on and off numerous times. He was sure having a lot of fun in the bathroom. I was glad he was so happy to sit on the toilet. We sang “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” a few times while he sat on the potty. Marlaina and Anton decided since we were having so much fun in the bathroom that they would go fetch the car. By the time they got back we were out of the bathroom and Tony had a new diaper on. There was chalk all over his jump suit and Marlaina got him some clean clothes.

Then he noticed that the car was once again in its place, so we all packed up and went for a car ride.