Started field work

Ok.... this blog has been more about school and less about the Johnson family. I think I need another blog for school. I actually had a private one, that I was venting on but stopped working on it. Think I may get it up and running again.

At any rate, I started my field work at the local hospital. Experiencing Occupational Therapy in the hospital is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!! One thing I hated about the last 7 years of my work life is, I was all ways behind a desk, not moving. I like to be up, going here or there, working under deadline, teaching and advising people. The more I get into the field, the more I love it!

About the fam, J had his 2 year check up and I had a debate with the doctor over vaccinations. It's not that I don't believe in vaccinations, it's just that I don't believe in the schedule of vaccinations. As the parent, I should be able to educate myself and decide on the vaccination course. I want a doctor who supports my decision, and not one that thinks I'm a moron. I told him about my education history, and he changed his tune. At any rate, we've started another course of vaccinations, because now that he's two and I see he's developing somewhat typical I'm ok with continuing the process. You may be trying to figure out why I said 'somewhat typical', well, J's language is somewhat behind the norm. I personally know he's ok, but the doctor wants an audiology appointment just to make sure there's nothing extra going on. The doc also recommends going to the regional center for some speech therapy. We're going to set that appointment up after we see the audiologist.

Rey is doing great as well. We're back to working with her daily on her education. I'm at a less rigid schedule. Pretty much, I'll pull up a website and let her pick anything on it she wants to play with, but the games are reading or math games. Before we do that, I have her do about 5-10 minutes worth of phonics work. We're going on the word families for now, then we'll move on to blending letters such as 'th', 'ch' 'ck' as so on. When Ed gets home he asks her "what did mommy teach you today" to make sure she's retaining information. It's also a reminder to her, that she has to tell daddy and she all ways likes to impress him. I think that is what was missing when we used to work on it, the family teamwork.