Colouring and Bubbles

Thursday, May 5, 2016

I brought in a colouring book a couple of weeks ago.  Mom and Dona sat on mom's bed and used her table to colour.  I left them, but when I looked at the colouring book, it looked like they had left off after I had left.  I tried the colouring book again a few days later.  This time we sat in the fish tank room.  Mom finished colouring her picture, but Dona lost interest.  She said it wasn't bright enough in the room.  Of course, mom needs lots of cueing.  She doesn't know what colour or where to colour.

I tried bubbles last weekend.  The weather was warm so we sat outside on a bench and took turns blowing bubbles.  Mom was a little anxious at first and so was Dona, but soon we were all giggling and admiring our bubbles.

Last Friday when I visited mom, our place settings were at a different table and  mom was sitting by herself.  On Sunday, I sat with mom's new dining group.  A different woman who used to sit there went to a different facility in Vancouver so she could be closer to her family. 

Jackie was wearing a a black curly-haired wig.  She is a card.  She said that Peter, the cat, sleeps with her.  She also has a dog that stays with her sometimes.  The couple of times, I had dinner with her, she saved half her fish for the cat.