Just checking in here!

[milivica]

We're all fine, but I thought I should check in just in case.

I'm on a cleaning frenzy lately, very very strange for me indeed!!! Usually I'm totally unambitious about my house of rotating laundry and Barbies, etc...

OH but we did get a tortious not long ago. I can't think of a name for him yet, he's a Greek Tortious, all I can think of is "Gyros" but that doesn't suit him. This summer, he will be my traveling buddy every time the kids and I go fishing or to the park...he can sit there and eat the weeds. I finally have a pet I can catch! I've wanted a tortious forever. A low stress, low mess, low maintenance, low noise, low smell, pet.

Also, I got a bunch seeds and some plants to plant (spring fever) as well as cleaning the yard (that cleaning I love actually) and I have to move a few trees I planted 'wrong' like 4 years ago. They haven't grown an inch, literally. I just sort of dug a hold and shoved them in, and even stepped on the root ball to cram it in. Hmph.

I know I have been missing but all is well! Just crazy busy. Actually, it's not so much that I'm crazy busy any more than usual, it's that I haven't been doing my usual procrastinating lately. Hee hee.

Dh and I woke this morning to the sound of a thousand toe nails gripping the carpet...our hamster (Odee) chewed his way out of his home, and our wee 5 pound dog was blocking him from getting under the bed or door or dresser - dh and I only awake for 3 seconds got him and put him back in his home, and later bought a new look out tower (the thing he chewed a hole in). We laughed for like 1/2 hour, sort of doing improv with one another about what the dog and hamster must have thought. OMG. It's crazy but that was the funnest conversation we've had in I don't know how long, like tears were streaming down our faces, we couldn't quit laughing.

So, that's the scoop and update. Just want everyone to know all is well, and there is a million to one chance my home might actually get totally cleaned finally including all started and unfinished projects. Probably not, but ya never know.

[GinaMarie]

I've missed you Mili!! HEYYYYYYYY when you get done cleaning.. ya want to come here and do mine??????????? or help me? :D;) I cant do mine.. I get to working and withing 10 minutes Im in so much pain I have to sit down.

Im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hoping the judge approves my disability SOON..

So you gonna post pictures of your tortoise? Is it a big one?

We are digging out (well the 19 yr old staying here is) the stump of a palm tree we have and we are going to plant a fiji apple tree I have in a pot in the stump. It will be so neat when we are done.. A tree planted in a tree. :)

Well the boys are here and I have to keep them under control.

Glad you are back..
HUGS,
GM

[peglem]

Well, if you check back in- I need the name of that RDI in the classroom book that you talked about a while ago. I tried to go back over your posts and find it- but there are too many and they are too long.

[milivica]

Gina, nice about the apple tree! I thought of doing fruit trees, but for some you have to have male and female etc..., so I just went with an ornamental I've wanted forever, 2 eastern redbuds (for only $20!!) and 2 ***** willows which for some reason give me a warm fuzzy feeling of childhood - I have no idea why. Maybe cause they're literally fuzzy?

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Peglem, an RDI question!!!! I'm frothing at the mouth :D

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I copied this from the RDI site, the book is called:
The Relationship Development Intervention (RDI®) Program and Education
by Steven E. Gutstein, Ph.D.
Copyright © 2007

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In Dr. Gutstein’s latest book, The Relationship Development Intervention® Program and Education, readers meet a variety of empowered parents, professionals and consultants that have been able to maintain goals for quality of life, combining efforts in order to achieve effective remediation for their children and students with autism spectrum disorders.

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Publisher: Connections Center Publishing; ISBN: 0977718601

Cost: $22.50

[Pamster]

Hi Mili!

Glad to see you on the board, and I bet your house looks awesome! :D Today is cleanup day here so I will be cleaning in a bit too. LOL! :D Glad to see you. ((((((Lisa)))))))

[frogmama]

two ****** willows, rotflol :) snort...Braintalk bleeped you! How about Kostaki for the turtle....

[milivica]

Gina, nice about the apple tree! I thought of doing fruit trees, but for some you have to have male and female etc..., so I just went with an ornamental I've wanted forever, 2 eastern redbuds (for only $20!!) and 2 ***** willows which for some reason give me a warm fuzzy feeling of childhood - I have no idea why. Maybe cause they're literally fuzzy?

UH! Hey? You're right froggy, I was given *****'s??? Fine, 2 vagina willows :mad: which, I wasn't even thinking when I posted 'pusie' willows.

[peglem]

Two CAT willows!

[milivica]

Two wussy pillows :rolleyes:

[The Pogue]

If I decide to make a traditional English raisin cake, will I have to call it "spotted penis" because **** is banned? If my aunt in svaginathrope teaches me the recipe, I won't be able to tell you where I got it??

[Kristen (ColeysMom)]

You guys CRACK me up!!!!

Mili, so glad you guys are having so much fun!

I know what you mean by procrastonating...I think winter can do that to you...it's so nice to be able to get out and do fun things instead of being cooped up! Then being motivated to clean-up FAST and get out!!!!

We've been a new kinda busy too...

Coley had his first sleep-over at his cousins, and he did AWESOME! Although my SIL said that we need to get his hearing checked because he is SOOOOOOO loud (plus he's been digging in his ear trying to get wax out too).

We don't discuss things much with her anymore...I think I've gotten into the whole denial thing with family before, so I won't go into it here...but it was kinda nice to have a conversation with them about AN issue that is just another problem...to have a genuine interest AND have them understand a bit better... I'm still waiting on the coordination of his appointments with the ENT & audiologist...but hopefully soon!!!

Coley did great with his chores during the week so we took him out to a restaraunt for breakfast...his eating issues definatley made things tough, but the last time we went out to eat with him (at like 12 mos or something) he just screamed the entire time...so I guess there was improvement. We had to keep reminding him to sit in his seat, and he had a REALLY hard time chosing his meal, and complained because the place wasn't like the one in ratatoulli...we told him we'd need to take a plane to that place...and he was ok with that :rolleyes: After we told him his 'manners' needed to improve a some before we could go to a 'fancy' restaraunt. But all in all, he did ok. DH & I decided we just need to do these things more often to get him more used to it...hopefully that's the case and not that he learns to take better advantage of the situation!:eek:

We also signed up for a family center/gym over the weekend. There's lots of activities there, a pool, gym, kid center, classes for his age (T-ball, karate, soccer, swim, tennis, etc)...he misses the cut off for summer stuff in our town, and since he'll be out of school over the summer, we thought this would be a good alternative...it's expensive, but we are looking at it more like therapy...plus an opportunity to interact in more positive/comstructive ways with him. Cross everything for us that we don't waste the money AND that it helps him with his social/behavioral/focus issues too!

His seedlings are starting to sprout and he's all excited...we're on our 3rd day of rain and the sun is going to come out this afternoon...I can't wait to see the new growth this afternoon or tomorrow...he's so excited!

It feels good to be a different kind of busy!

[milivica]

If I decide to make a traditional English raisin cake, will I have to call it "spotted penis" because **** is banned? If my aunt in svaginathrope teaches me the recipe, I won't be able to tell you where I got it??

"Spotted Richard" cake, and just say your aunt is from 'down south'
:)

[RDeyes]

So glad to hear you got the cleaning fever... I wish that was the case with me but I am in 'project' mode and when that happens usually the house is a mess. We have a new treehouse though...

[Isabelle]

i was cleaning too the garage...mice got in there, the shed...squirrels got in there....i had the worse cold with rashes all over my face.
at all event, in my good times i planted berries. i got blueberries, raspberries, goose berries, black berries...

[Isabelle]

i was cleaning too the garage...mice got in there, the shed...squirrels got in there....i had the worse cold with itchy eyes, nose, ears, throat, rashes all over my face.
at all event, in my good times i planted berries. i got blueberries, raspberries, goose berries, black berries...

[milivica]

I sure jinxed myself. It's like ever since I posted about being on a cleaning frenzy, I stopped cleaning. I swear, I'm starting to think I went on the frenzy cause of the nice weather. Since it got cold and rainy I'm stuck in neutral again.