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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Random Snapshots

8:07 PM

Liam decided to accessorize himself a couple days this week...

Gotta love the clip on look with a football t-shirt!

Braeden came home Wednesday and boy were we happy to see this smiling face!

Had some ups and downs with meds and medicaid refusing to cover one,

so were without one of his two new ones for a couple days.

Back on track now and praying things even out.

As of right now I really don't see much difference

in his activity and impulsivity on the meds than I did off,

plus he still seems angry at times for no real reason. :(

Olivia had her year end dance recital last night and this afternoon.

This is a HUGE production, sold out each day (there are also performances

on Friday night and Saturday afternoon that she wasn't involved in),

with much rehearsal time and prep.

The boys had a sitter last night (and Braeden made it through well)

and they came with me to see the show today.

We made it through the first act (an hour and a half!),

and saw Olivia's first dance - a tap number to Polar Express,

and had a little pop at intermission.

They only had Pe*psi or Diet Pe*psi, so Liam thought he was hot stuff

since mom doesn't usually allow him to have that stuff! :)

We then watched the first two dances in Act II since Olivia's was the second.

This dance was a jazz number to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

They were both SO good and Olivia did EXCELLENT!!!

Unfortunately I couldn't take pics or record anything, so no costume shots! :(

*UPDATE*

A friend just posted this on Face*book so I snagged it! :)

I took the boys out after that dance since there was still quite a bit left

and Braeden had done well but was hanging by a thread. :)

So we hung out in the hall with the iPad.

Just to give this girly a HUGE hug and congratulations!

We are so proud of her!

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Getting Back to Normal

7:03 PM

Well, as I said it's been quite a week or two. I haven't felt like blogging, or doing much of anything to be honest, but I THINK we're starting to see the light at the end of this tunnel.

After Mother's Day weekend, which was great, I was hopeful we could make it through the rest of the school year. Monday was bad. He was in and out of the principal's office all day and at the end they had me pick him up instead of putting him on the bus. It was decided that the next time he was out of control at school I would pick him up and take him to ER. I was hopeful that I was seeing a pattern and that Tuesday would be ok for him. It wasn't. They started the day practicing for a musical that Braeden had decided he didn't want to be in any longer and another teacher told him that he still had to stand there and he lost it.

They called me almost two hours after school had begun and we headed to the hospital. He bawled the whole way when he saw that I really was taking him there, which we had talked about, and not home. My heart broke.

Of course ER was crazy busy and many ambulances were coming and going as well, meaning we were in the waiting area for FOUR hours before even going back to be seen. Braeden vacillated between being mad and not wanting to stay, being "ok" and watching a movie on the iPad, and trying to make it "ok" in his mind by saying things such as "I know mom, it's like I'm visiting Grandma and Grandpa without you, only with people I don't know." Again, broke my heart.

We arrived to ER at noon and he was finally brought upstairs and admitted at 6:30 pm.

The time there was both filled with good and bad, maybe another post sometime. Overall I really liked the staff I met and they did take him off his meds and put him on new ones. After the second day they saw no rages or anger (after they took him off the Focalin... ). The kids weren't able to visit until Tuesday, a full week after he was admitted, as that is the only day siblings can come. They were SO happy to see each other!!!

And he was FINALLY discharged last night! We are so happy to have him back under our roof again! They decided to transition him to their day program to be certain he's on the correct meds and ease his transition. Not too big a deal except that he gets out at 2 and there is no transportation. I and a few local friends are working it out to pick him up each day and take him to a friend's who will keep him until I'm done at school, she just doesn't have access to a car right now to pick him up herself.

The best thing coming from all of this is the fact that he will now have a different doctor. They told me that they've had kids inpatient for two weeks, put them on all new meds, and then the child has gone back to (the same doctor B had) and he changed all their meds at their first appt back. So we'll now have a local doctor whom I've heard good things about and shouldn't have these issues with doctors again! If anything, THAT will have been worth all of this!

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Help a Friend

3:55 PM

Could you PLEASE take just a minute...

A good friend was chosen as a semi finalist! Please friends and family go to this site and vote up to 10 times a day. Limit of 10 per email address and limit of 20 per IP address per day. After the trying year they have had, they could certainly use a positive! If they win they get a front yard makeover and a new mower!! Help them out!

CLICK AND VOTE

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Saturday Snapshots

9:41 PM

(more "life" updates soon, been a crazy/rough/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel kind of week...)

Today Olivia and Liam and I headed to Six Flags to activate our season passes.

The kids get big, friend birthday parties at ages 5, 10, and 16, so this summer is Olivia's big 10th birthday.

When we were discussing her party and talking through options, she decided instead of a big party with many friends, that she'd like to invite three friends and go to Six Flags for the day.

Upon researching, I discovered that for only $60 MORE, we could get season passes for the four of us, as the days we would go for her party were bring a friend for just $15 days on the season passes, so we opted to go for the passes!

The weather, which was wonderful early in the week, turned COLD and RAINY!

But we had three GREAT hours to start the day and because of the weather there was hardly anyone there!

That meant we were able to go on most everything with little wait.

And Olivia who is now tall enough to ride anything (her goal for oh-so-long), was able to go on the rides she has LONGED to ride while Liam and I waited!

This series of pics makes me cry for laughing so hard! He talked about riding a "little" coaster all day, so when we finally got there he was thrilled!