A Goodnight Sleep

Well today was Alyssa's and Joshua's doctors appointments. Joshua went first. We went in and started talking, then she asked for our paper work. I said "I gave it to the front desk". She went out to look for it and no one could find it. I thought great now I have to do that all over again. Finally they realized she had put Joshua's paper work on Alyssa's chart. Now that she was back we went over a few more things. Then it was time to talk with Joshua. He ignored her and continued playing. She tried to get on the floor and play with him still no response. I thought well at least she is seeing the real him. Finally she got his attention buy asking him to play the face game. He named them all correctly happy, sad, uh-uh, and angry. He laughed when he saw the angry face. Joshua then told the doctor that he never got mad and never hit or screamed. It took all I had not to laugh. She said it was normal for kids to say that. So in the end Joshua was diagnosed with ADHD and a tick disorder. She also gave us a different sleeping med to try. So hopefully tonight we will all sleep well.

We then went to lunch at Burger King so the kids could play. After that we headed back to the doctor for Alyssa's appointment.

Alyssa had a different doctor and we discussed about school, behaviors, and not sleeping. Since Alyssa has already be diagnosed with ADHS we changed her meds and are putting her on a different sleep med also. This girl can stay up later than my teenagers. Last weekend she was up until 3 am on Friday and 1 am on Saturday. When she sleeps with the teens they usually have to tell her it is time to sleep. I don't know how she does it. I hope she can still do that when she has kids. It will be a blessing then, now it just makes me really tired.

Well I don't care to medicate my children but I think it is time. I hope that the meds work really well for them, and that they can sleep better at night. Plus they should be able to handle being in public and slow down a bit to with the ADHD meds. Hope everyone sleeps well tonight. Sweet Dreams!!!!

New Eyes

So on Wen. we went to Jeff city to a eye doctor my entire family goes to. They fitted me for contacts and I got a trial pair to take home. I am getting used to them and my new prescription. Brendyn really likes to watch me put them in and take out because he has been watching Monsters Inc. lately and there is a part where mike maszowski (?) puts in a contact. The first time he watched me I took forever to do it so he put his finger out and said "my turn". It was so cute.

I think the first time taking them out it took me 45 min. In the morning it took about 30min to get them in. The right eye went in well but the left wasn't working. After trying several times it fell out of my hand. SO I had to call James to help me look for it. We looked everywhere and eventually found it stuck to the mirror. Today it only took about 5 min all together. Then when I was taking with James I blinked and one fell out and was hanging on my eyelid. O well it is getting easier and hopefully tonight wont take to long.

I also got my pantry finished and we love it. It fits all my food, shoes and coats for the kids. And there is room for my walking machine one day. I know walking in a room filled with food?!