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Jon Sick Day 368

Family Life, Jon

Okay, I exaggerate. It’s only day three. Only one major symptom. Sure, there’s a little sore throat the first day, a little fever the next, today he’s a bit stuffy. But the main symptoms of whatever it is he has seems to be grumpiness. Not huggy. Bite yer head off grumpy. But he’s cheered up now, so he must be getting better.

One of the interesting things about Jon (well, to us psych majors anyway) is how a minor illness reveals his internal wiring. We all get a little weaker when we’re sick, but for Jon it’s a bigger deal. For instance, his legs start to cross. One facet of his particular rendition of CP is that the inside muscles of his legs—the adductors–are stronger than his outer ones (bascially some fibres of that muscle group seem to be on more or less permanently). Jon has been able to build up his outer legs to compensate to some extent, but his compensation is close to a conscious action. So when he gets sick, even before any symptoms appears, the legs start to pull in. Last night, after a rough patch where I cuddled him back to sleep, he fell asleep with his legs bent up and together. When I tried to ease them down, it took all of my gentle strength. Gonna need a crowbar soon.

And incidentally, as his body tone goes down, I swear he gets heavier too!

The Goldfish

Jon

I like seeing two goldfish swimming in the pool. I like the goldfish. They are difrent. I like seeing a goldfish go blub blub blub. I want you to use your imaginashun. I will swim with them. We are going to the beach. I love going with them because the are difrent. My mommy and daddy are difrent too.

Jon

Bowling

Jon

(Lately, because of his “Animaniacs Bowling” video game, Jon has been interested in bowling. The other day we dug up an old foam indoor bowling set given to Jon years ago by Bachan. Well, after hours of bowling in the kitchen later, I can safely say that Jon is now REALLY interested in bowling. His teacher hopes that the class will go bowling in a real bowling alley later this year—here’s keeping our fingers crossed! —L)

I was bowling on Sunday. I love going to the kichin to bowl . I came to the liveinroom to have play station. I like to play anammanacks Bowling and I like to play spyro and Winnie the pooh. I was bowling with my mommy and my daddy. I was rowling the ball and it hit the pins. It was fun. It made us feel good.

Jon

My Halloween Costume

Family Life, Jon

I love going trick or treeting with my dad. I like going to lots of houses. I am going to say trick or treet when the door opens. I love going to anther house. I say trick or treet. My Halloween costume is a goat. a Goat says mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I am going to watch the movie. I love going to the house to say trick or treet.

High on a Hill Sits a Lonely Goat…

Cool Stuff, Family Life, Jon

Hallowe’en 2005: Logic and reason can help the worker be more productive. This year, Jon’s started a mantra days before: “If I go to lots of houses, I’ll get lots of treats!” That said, not everything went to plan: we built the costume for early November weather and then it turned out to be the temperature of a September evening. The fleece hooves didn’t last long, and the headpiece occasionally had to be doffed for air. Laura made the fabulous goat costume, while I worked in shades of grey: horns, and the wheelchair foreground and background.

We parents donned construction paper Lederhosen to accompany our goat. No still photographs exist of this, so unless some video of such a thing were to surface it will have to fade into the mists of mystery and horror. And were asked to yodel more than once, and the same applies to that.

The street was crowded with kids, partially thanks to another great show on Langley Avenue this year. Some of our neighbours down the block put on a show, and each year they invest more into it: this year featured a stage mounted on the front lawn all the way to the sidewalk, three banks of theatrical lights, and lighting board, backdrop, and a cast of a number of adult neighbours and a ton of the neighbourhood kids. It’s incredible. This year’s theme was Ghostbusters, with homages to a number of horror movies.

Jake the Snake

Jon

The snake goes ssssssssssssssssssss. I love going to his house. He live in the forest. I like him. I love going slithering around. We are going to play on the grass. The grass is green. I love going in to the forest. I love going to pull the leafs apart to make a leaf house.

Jonathan

(Today’s Creative Writing)

Jon

I love going to the class. I like eating caned frooet. I am going to eat bananas. I eat chips. I love going to the music room. I like going to sing the hello song. with Erick. I love watching the three little pigs. I am going to the snoezelen room on thursday.