To all our sports enthusiast family and friends: you may enjoy this photo of Luke and two members of the Minnesota Wild Hockey team (Pierre-Marc Bouchard,96 and Stephane Veilleux, 19). There were lots of news cameras following them on their visit with the kids at Gillette. They caught up with Luke during his afternoon Physical Therapy and gave him a t-shirt and autographed photos of them. Since we don't follow the Wild (I'm sorry....).... he was like, "oh, O.K., thanks for the t-shirt."Another cute craft story tonight. Luke and a couple other little girls were making snowflakes out of popsicle sticks. They glued sequins on the sticks to make them sparkle. Luke was looking at all the extra popsicle sticks lying in the middle of the table. He then innocently asked who were the ones who had eaten all of these popsicles.
Since Luke's hospital Kindergarten teacher at Gillette works for the St. Paul school district, she is gone on winter break, until January 5th. She left Luke some book report assignments. After we read a book, we have to write the title, 3 facts about the book and Luke has to draw a picture from the book. It's been fun working with him on this. He also has a pile of work that his own teacher from Farmington has sent him to keep up with...we do about a page a day.....can't let this Kindergartener "fall behind."
During physical therapy today, Luke began to relearn to crawl again.
Then, Amy, his primary PT put Luke on a big trike. With seat belt fastened, helmet on and feet strapped in, Luke began to pedal. He went really slow at first, but showed a bit more "umpf" after riding around the hospital hallways for about 10 minutes. At home, when there's no snow in Minnesota, Luke rides his two wheeler with training wheels all over the neighborhoods with Mom and Dad. I expect that this strengthening activity will become his favorite. (Have you heard of the Fisher Price Smart Cycle?....a bike that you hook up to your TV and when the child pedals can do learning games?......that's what Santa is bringing in a couple of days to Luke, shhhh).
