Impatience!!

No blog yesterday - just didn't have time to do it! Speech therapy with Bev in the morning, and I had decided I wouldn't tell her we were trying sounds, but lo and behold, she had decided herself to try some!! So I told her which we were trying but couldn't get any further and she didn't have any more luck. Pete tends to get hooked on the 'Lu' sound and can't get past it, just keeps saying it. The word for this is perseverance, where the brain perseveres with one thing and just won't give up. Anyway, she then decided to try singing (yes, we have been there already with nothing happening) and tried the song Jingle Bells, in the hope a word would pop out, but, again, nothing. So then moved on to writing and letter recognition, which went quite well with Pete being able to remember missing letters for a short time, but then perseverance kicked in with the letter O which he tried to put in everything! It is a very odd phenomenon.
Suzanne and Susie came in the afternoon for physio, which went well, and we have also got a new exercise with the ball. She asked about kitchen tasks Pete can do and I said the main problem was peeling vegetables as couldn't get the angle right. She had the answer - he needs a left handed peeler - doh, why didn't I think of that!?!?! I told her the kitchen work station is pretty useless and wouldn't recommend it, but the one handed tin opener is brilliant. Anyway I need to purchase the left handed peeler and some left handed scissors.
Today we have done no exercises at all. Despite agreeing the decorations wouldn't go up till the weekend, Pete decided today was the day. He has got very impatient and doesn't like planning ahead, if he decides to do something it has to be done NOW. This has happened several times and it doesn't matter what I am doing, that has to stop to do what he wants. This can be very annoying at times. The Christmas Tree caused an anger outburst as he has customised the base, which has been fine in previous years, but this year I had no idea how to set it up. We tried several ways but had to give up and we have had to get a new tree. He just got very angry, and so did I, that it wasn't working. This resulted in us both being so cross we didn't want any lunch. Then come tea time I asked him something and got another outburst, he just wasn't making himself clear - he says yes to every question and then you have to wait for the head nod or shake, and he wasn't making any sense, so another disasterous meal. We have been out tonight and bought the turkey and a few bits and a new tree and things seem to have calmed down a bit thank goodness. But we had to put the tree up immediately, and I said I would do lights tomorrow, but no, out came the lights to go on now.
So a bit of a stressful day today, and now the wind is howling and rain/hail banging on the window. Hope for a better day tomorrow.