The kids are alright!

I am on spring break (rainy, snowy, yuck, but whatever!) so I finally have time to do a little update. 

Zoe:  Having fun at school.  She is going to be moving up to the next classroom by the end of the month which she is very excited about since her friend Milly Grace moved up about a month or so ago.  It is so sweet to see them together.  They always give hugs hello and they love to play together.

She is still extremely sensitive and emotional, and will cry at the drop of a hat.  She is getting somewhat better at telling us why she is crying though, which helps a little bit.

She woke up crying last night around 11:45 (for about the 3rd time!).  When I went down to see her the conversation went like this:

Me:  Why are you crying, sweetie?
Zoe: Because I'm sad!
Me:  Why are you sad?
Zoe:  I'm sad because I want something!
Me:  What do you want?
Zoe:  I want books!
Me:  So if I give you books you will stop crying and go back to sleep?
Zoe:  yes!
Me:  Ok sweetie, here are 2 books for you.
Zoe:  You wipe my nose and my tears.
Me:  Ok sweetie. 

And then she went back to sleep without any issues. 

Jackson:  I am still working out getting his device set up properly.  I seem to have lost my boardmaker disc so I am not able to use it to make some better icons, which is frustrating me.  I shelled out $300+ to get the boardmaker icons opened on his device (they are in there but they are extra $ to unlock) but they seem to be coming out all pixilated which is annoying me.  The PRC rep is coming tomorrow to help get some stuff figured out.  I have a lot of questions for her.

I have decided to start him with boards that have 15 squares rather than 8.  I feel that it will be hard for him at first but I think that using 15 is way more flexible and can pretty much do everything he will need it to do now and in the future.  Also, 15 is better because then he can have 1-2 blank squares for him to rest his eyes on which do not activate anything.

The mounts for the device are not right yet.  The wheelchair mount needs a different clamp to be stable and we haven't ordered the floor stand yet.  Just waiting on a call back from the mount company to do that.  Hopefully by this time next week all will be perfect!

Woohoo, it's here!

Jackson's eye gaze communicator is here!  We have a lot of setting up to do and only one mount (the wheelchair mount) came with it so we will be limited in its use until the floor mount comes too.  Got a lot of work to do.  Our PRC rep can hopefully come over this coming week (since J is on Spring Break) to help get it working the way he needs it to.