So I bought Agent Murphy a pair of slippers a month or so ago. He really likes them. They have lion faces on them. For the last few days at least, he’s decided he must be tucked into bed wearing them. Okay, well, that’s our boy.
So last week we started going to therapy twice a week for 30 minute sessions instead of 1 1-hour session each week. Seems like that might work well for the Agent. He can’t really focus for a full hour, so he’s actually getting more out of the sum of the two shorter sessions than the 1 session. He’s starting to be more willing to vocalize some vowel sounds on command, but it’s a struggle for him and often he can’t get quite the right sound. He tried real hard today, though.
The Agent seemed plenty tired this afternoon, and actually stayed in his bed for a while; but no sleep. He got up, put on his own pants, socks, and slippers, and came out to find me. He is wired and crazy. Will have to work to keep him away from The Dog. Methinks an early bedtime for him tonight.
Mr. Tldz is officially Team Lead for his group, effective yesterday. Hooray!
He’s been acting as Team Lead unofficially for quite a while, because the guy who had the role wasn’t really doing it. D. has very good technical skills, but he has myriad health problems, complicated by some personal issues, and probably doesn’t have much interest in managerial/administrative tasks, if we’re being honest. He finally came to the conclusion that he was doing his career and job security a disservice by doing a poor job as Team Lead; so he asked Mr. Tldz about switching roles, to which he agreed and their boss approved.
It looks like Mr. Tldz will have to go into the office every day next week, as there is lots going on. He hopes over the long term to keep the going in to 2 days per week on average. We shall see.
He’s excited about the new challenges, and the chance to finally get the team moving in the direction it should go. We are proud of him!
We’ve been to Mass this morning for the Feast of Mary, Mother of God. It’s nice that All Saints offers a normal Sunday Mass schedule for today, so we went to our usual 8:45. We were asked to bring the gifts up to the altar. Mr. Tldz carried the cruet of wine, I took the water, and Agent Murphy carried the sacramentary. Once we got him pointed the right direction, he did pretty well. When we got about half way up the aisle, Father Jude (the visiting Franciscan scholastic who teaches theology at a college outside of Philadelphia and who also said Christmas Eve Mass) knelt down to be at the Agent’s level. Then he really seemed to get it, and he raced the rest of the way up the aisle with the book. Father Jude told him he did perfectly.
Now that we’re home, we’re back in our PJs and set for a lazy day. Diapers have been folded, the beginnings of a pot of soup is on the stove for dinner (lunch will just be Christmas leftovers), and now we’re ready to watch movies or something.
Last night we ordered in a couple of pizzas for dinner. We were going to watch a movie after the Agent went to bed, but I’d been fighting a migraine all day, so we were curled up in bed with cups of spiced cider listening to the radio by 8:30. Fell asleep sometime after that, and then woke up around 10:30 to go to bed for the night. A couple of old fuddy duddies, we. But I can’t really think of a nicer way to celebrate the new year. This morning we had cold pizza and egg nog for breakfast – what a way to start 2010! (Okay, we were responsible parents and the Agent Murphy had his usual breakfast: oatmeal mixed with apple sauce and yogurt, a banana, a vitamin, milk.)
So now on with our lazy day. Nowhere to go until church on Sunday morning. If only we could keep the Agent from pestering attacking The Dog…