We've Been Busy!

Here’s what’s been going on at Our Place…

The big discussion of the week… Where should the Our Place Mobile be parked at night? We suggested Avi’s house but he was worried that his trusty dog Burt would bite the van. We thought about having it at Frank’s house but he said there were too many people coming in and out of his driveway. Jesse R. volunteered to have the van stay at his place so he could watch the van every day and make sure it was okay, but Josh decided we should just keep the Our Place Mobile at Our Place. Great idea Josh!

Since our last blog we went swimming at Frank’s house. We’ve had a ton of fun honing our skills at bocce with Chris and Cortney, and we’ve become really artistic painting and stamping with Sally. We tried making some black bean tacos for a healthy snack but after much discussion, we voted not to have them again, but the fruit salad was a hit! At HeART Words with Barry everyone did a fantastic job writing greeting cards. Maybe everyone should team up and get jobs at Hallmark this summer!

We went swimming at Franks and although we usually love having anyone join in the fun at Our Place, we had an over friendly dragonfly that was not welcome.

This week we’ve gotten ice cream at Homer’s, went to the Winnetka Library, went on a Nature Walk and took a stroll around Gilson Park. While we walked around Gilson with Nate and Emily, Stacia went on a parking scavenger hunt. She never found a parking space so after enjoying Lake Michigan and the sun Stacia came back and picked us up.

We also hosted a terrific talent show. Who knew we had such talented people at Our Place?! Frank boogied to the music while Katie and Jesse RM danced up a storm. Avi sang “ Be Prepared” from the Lion King and Josh rocked on to the Beatles “Love Me Do”. Jesse C. got us practically rolling on the floor with his hilarious jokes and Keenan showed off his muscles when he did 9 pushups. Maybe we should get our own reality show… we are quite entertaining.

Well that’s what’s been happening at Our Place. We’ll try and stay in touch more often but there is so much going on at Our Place it’s hard to keep up!

Check back in a few days to find out which beach we’re going to this week…

Our First Post

Here’s what happened today at Our Place...

Rain... Boo! No Our Place Mobile today but we still had fun indoors. First we played Hangman, but Katie tricked us when she added the “3D” part of Toy Story. Luckily though, Josh was on top of the game and wanted to finish off the sentence so he was able to add that to the end. The Backstreet Boys were the most popular musicians of the day when Frank chose them for his Hangman phrase…it’s the first time since the 90’s that the Backstreet Boys have been in their heyday.

Soon after, Devora gave everyone a real workout when we went to the clubhouse to play some freeze tag. Devora had just gotten her hydrologic wheels added to her wheelchair, so she was quick to catch Josh, who immediately started shivering after being tagged until one of us could warm him up again. Then Katie got a turkey plus one on wii bowling (is that a chicken? Or a duck?) but soon the rackets got a little tangled during a fierce game of tennis…everyone can’t stand right in front of the wii at once…hmm

Keenan joined us and wanted to make some pizza bagels, or maybe he wanted to make some cards, but anyway we all were a little hungry so the kitchen was the next destination on our adventure. Unfortunately we couldn’t take the new Our Place mobile so we took the elevator down instead. We sliced open the bagels, added some sauce, cheese, cut up the veggies and even added some zucchini to our specialty pizza… Boy they were tasty. The saying “Gone in 60 Seconds” was an understatement…Yum!

On to our next adventure. We met up with Barry for a little heARTwords fun. “What is your favorite..?” Was the theme for today. Keenan’s favorite room in the house is the hall, Katie loves to rock climb when she’s on vacation, Frank loves to watch Paula Dean - bring on the southern cooking Frank! Oh and we can’t forget to add that Frank’s favorite form of transportation is his mom. Josh’s favorite food is broccoflour... Josh also mentioned that his imaginary person would be a maid cleaner. Is this because he cleans so much? We should get one of these for Our Place.

So that sums it up for what happened at Our Place today.

By the way... where would be a good place to park the Our Place Mobile? Let’s come up with some ideas.