Rain Forest

Today was Madison's last day at Challenged Child (for Summer School, at least).  She'll be going to speech therapy the next few weeks up until school, and I'm delighted to report that she's been getting better and better each day with her pronunciations.  As a parting gift, she got a "passport," which you can see a page of above - it's the day they talked about the rainforest.  To complete the theme, Daddy read her Jan Brett's book, "The Umbrella," and he even wore his Rainforest Cafe shirt.  Madison remembers the Rainforest Cafe - early on, it was a favorite destination of ours in Orlando.  Although the first time we went there, she'd get upset at the rainstorms and thunder that happened inside.

Today we returned to the library, moving along quite briskly with our reading program.  We've notched off about thirteen books towards our goal of fifty, and at this rate should be done right on time at the end of July.  Madison is very goal oriented, and is quite helpful getting Daddy to input the IBN codes for each book!  

Do you know what we did this afternoon?  Madison and Daddy had a proper thumb-wrestling session. Daddy explained the rules and we were off and going for the gold medal against each other.  What started it all out was Madison's discover of some thumb covers - last seen on the pages of this blog here.  In any event, she slipped on Chun Li over her thumb, and Daddy fought against her using another character.  It was a glorious event filled with quite a bit of action, but Madison wound up on top, pinning Daddy down with some expert moves.  The crowd applauded loudly, and gave her a big thumbs up!

The temperature is climbing out there - this will be a few days where we'll be staying indoors.  The temperature didn't quite break 100 yet, but we're clearly on our way there tomorrow.  Today was only supposed to be 97 or so, but the reading was telling me 99 in the car.  Yikes!  Madison and Daddy were out and about to the bank, library and grocery store - after which Daddy was outside grilling some of the tastiest hot dogs you can imagine.  We had a lovely day as a family!  Mommy and Daddy even had a breakfast date - we dropped Madison off for school this morning and headed over to Chick-Fil-A for some quiet time together.  Immediately after that, while Madison was still in school, Daddy went over to the lung doctor.  Yesterday, Daddy got into an airlock and did all these crazy breathing tests that made him gag a lot.  The end result is an inhaler.

"Yo."

That's about all my experience with an inhaler - watching Mikey from "The Goonies."  The doctor used the phrase "cough variant asthma," which I'm not entirely sure about.  But after the last couple usages, I'm thinking the inhaler helping me out a bit.  I'm still thinking/hoping this is all related to the pancreatitis, and after a bit I'll be back to normal.  But in the meantime, the inhaler is actually helping a bit.

"Goonies never say die!" - Mikey