Calebisms

I haven't posted much about Caleb lately since our time is limited to the hospital and he has been doing so much other than here, but I will fill you in on the hospital side. When I first got here we ventured out to the lounge a lot and Caleb would paint or make stuff. As of lately we have moved on to other fun things now that I can be a little more mobile.

He for awhile was really into going on secret missions to the snack room to get different things for us. The hall had to be empty and he would run as fast as he could so that no one would see him. He still does this, but it is not quite as exciting as it used to be. Now he likes to go to the nurses station to ask for things. The two main things that he goes for are push pins and a dry erase marker. Mark needed push pins to hang my flag and we sent Caleb on that mission so from then on it has been fun. There really isn't anything that he can put the pins in other than my mattress or the chair, but he still likes to get them. In order to play school which is one of the new things that we do we have to get a dry erase marker from the nurses. Caleb is the teacher and Mark and I are the boys and girls. We have to write things on the board and then he points to them and we have to tell him what it is. Somehow we need to get those roles reversed, but hopefully in the meantime it will help him with identifying letters and numbers. Once he is the teacher, he is the teacher for the remainder of the time he is here.

Paper airplanes, or as Caleb likes to call them, rockets. The rockets are made and sail through the halls. If they go in the nurses station or anywhere near it, that is always a bonus as Caleb gets to go in there and tell them about it.

Karaoke, yes you heard me correctly. I am borrowing Caleb's radio that he got for Christmas that is also a karaoke machine. Mark loves to sing on it and if the right song is on, Caleb will sing too. He really likes the hokey poky.

On the days we went outside we had to race Caleb. The problem was that Mark and I were always sent on the 'slow' side (Caleb would call it that) and he would take off running. Poor Mark not only had to take the slow route, but he also had to push me in the wheel chair. Needless to say we always lost, but Mark always gave it a fair shot.

Caleb likes to take the Alligator (elevator) to the Capateria (cafeteria) to get food or the store (aka gift shop) to get candy. I showed him where the jelly belly's were so that is his new favorite thing. Sometimes they are distributed as medicine if he thinks we are ill.

Needless to say Caleb has made himself at home here and all of the nurses think that he is really cute. We have been having fun which is really nice. Hopefully while we are playing and having fun no one will get kicked out :)