Jan 24th - Still Cold

Today's high was 11 and tonight's low is supposed to be 4. At least we aren't getting blasted with snow.

Kelsey made it home safe and sound around mid-afternoon. It sounded like she had a good time.

We continue to be amazed at Lydia. I showed her a Netflix kids move on my phone a few days ago and now everything is "Movie, movie, movie." Those were the first words out of her mouth when she hit the top of the stars this morning. Andy has a Fisher-Price cartoon app on his phone. Lydia picks his phone up, turns it on, moves to the apps page, picks the cartoon app out of a full page of apps and activates the app. She does it all by herself.

She is fascinated by my hearing aids. It is a real struggle for her to keep her hands off them. I tell her it is okay to play with my ears but she can't touch the hearing aids. This afternoon I put new batteries in them. I put the old batteries in the case and left it lying on the coffee table. The case hinge is spring loaded and doesn't pop open easily. I was on my computer, at the coffee table. I looked over and she was trying to stuff one of the batteries in her ear. She had opened the case and taken the batteries out. When I asked her where the other battery was she looked down at the floor. Kathy and I searched and searched without finding it. I checked Lydia's ears to make sure she had not already stuffed on in her ear, no luck. We moved my "stuff" around on the coffee table and again, no luck. We were getting very concerned that she might have swallowed the battery. Kathy finally found it under the edge of a chair. We (me) are going to have to start being more careful about what we leave in her reach. That's a lot of area because she is a very capable climber.

I went for my first exercise session at the YMCA today. Part of it was laughable. Tom, one of the assistants, was taking me around showing me the equipment and showing me how to use the different machines. The first weight machine was one the exercised your legs. Every time I bent my legs to lift the weights I got a cramp in my thigh and had to get off the machine to work out the cramp. After 3 tries we gave up on a leg machines for the day. Things went fine with the upper body machines and I finished with a 30 minute cardio walk on a treadmill. Kathy is going to drop me off at the YMCA tomorrow and then go get groceries while I exercise. I will give the leg machines another try.

I've given up trying to figure out what is wrong with our inoperative toilet. Tomorrow I plan on buying a new one. I might break the old one apart just to see why water won't flow into it.

Hope you all had a good day. May God bless you and yours.