Where to begin. The past few weeks have been fun and challenging all at the same time. We got to have a surprise beach day in the middle of January which is always nice. Winter is back though which is just fine with me and my allergies. The boys enjoy being outside no matter what the weather or pollen count may be.
So what is new and exciting in our house as of late? We signed Eric up for flag football which starts this upcoming Friday. Should be interesting and entertaining. He is on the Redskins much to his dismay. He really wanted to be on the Gators but he is coming around to the fact that he will have to skip college teams and go straight to the pros. We are also going to sign Tyler up for soccer, or as he calls it skoccer. :) I'm usually pretty selfish of my family time so we don't tend to enroll the boys in a lot of extra activities but they have been asking for a while so we finally relented. I am looking forward to watching them on the field though. It should be quite fun and prove to be good material for writing.
Not much new on the gluten free living. No new recipes to share really this time. Plan on trying some new ones soon though. To be honest we aren't seeing much difference in behavior and we are actually seeing a ramping up of melt downs. I am seeing an improvement in Eric's eczema though. It is not nearly as bad as it was before gluten free. It is virtually non existent. We are still going to stick out the 3 months and see where it takes us. After that we are probably going to go back to a normal diet and see what happens. It may be that we are just living in the day to day and can't see the small incremental changes. I also have a super vitamin that was recommended by my chiropractor sitting in my amazon cart to try for Eric. The super vitamin is super expensive and will only be used again if it helps the first month. I still haven't gotten the nerve up to actually click the purchase now button for it because it is so expensive. I guess if it helps it would be worth it though.
Since we have seen an increase in melt downs and his inability to cope with situations that seem minor to most we have sought out help from a psychologist. I have to say that I don't like to put my child in a box when it comes to this be it ADHD, ODD, Gifted, Aspergers, Sensory Processing, etc. I have my suspicions as to what is going on but I'm not a doctor by any stretch of the imagination so we will leave assessments up to the professionals. However, we kind of need to get a diagnosis so we know how best to help him and how to teach him to handle situations when they don't go according to plan. Our initial appointment is this coming Thursday. He is about an hour away in my old college stomping grounds. He actually teaches at my old college as an adjunct professor. I don't think he taught my psych class though. I had a wonderful first impression of him over the phone. Really personable and sounds like a guy that will really listen to us and listen to Eric. The last psychologist we saw pretty much blew us off and told us to read him a bed time story if he couldn't go to sleep. Insert me rolling my eyes but trying to be nice at the same time when she said that. I have a feeling Eric may get a tad bit of his attitude from his momma. ;-)
Other than that we are plodding right along. We are back into the swing of things at school. Eric has his 7th birthday coming up and we have a party this coming weekend. Thankfully we are keeping it small this year. Well...small by our standards. It is a lego theme so really all I have to do is let the kids at the legos and they will be perfectly happy. Tyler has his 5th birthday coming up in another month so right after this party we will begin planning his. Gotta love January and February in our household. I am also in the midst of getting home school materials set up for the summer. I am bound and determined we will have a schedule this summer because I really want to have an enjoyable summer! Funny that to have a good summer we have to actually have school but it works so I'm not going to knock it. I'm actually going to go ahead and start with Tyler now each day after I pick him up from his half days at school. All we are going to work on is reading though. I wouldn't normally start now but he is so ready. Plus it will free me up to cover a lot of the same stuff, just more in depth for Eric, over the summer instead of having to do a lot of different things.
Until next time...
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