Time to circle back around

So after a particularly good day followed by a particularly challenging night I once again find myself sitting at the computer researching behavioral stuff. Looking more and more at over excitabilities in children and seeing more and more of my child while I'm reading it. It just brings us right back to how this entire journey began. I can say, despite one test we've already had done over the summer, that I'm fairly sure I know what is going on with my child. Sometimes you just shouldn't ignore mommy intuition no matter what a piece of paper says. So now I am printing out articles and checklists to take to our appointment on Thursday to hopefully gain some insight. I have a good feeling about this psychologist and I'm giving it up to God that this is the person he wants in our lives to help us parent Eric better and to help us better meet his needs academically.

All this was spurred on by an epic dinner standoff. I asked Eric to eat half of his veggie fries before he got down from the table to which he assured me he would do. Well his story changed very quickly. He refused to eat them because he said they were yucky. Now they didn't taste great but I don't think it was bad enough to commence a show down over. Eric felt differently. He sat at the table for 2 1/2 hours refusing to eat. Screaming, crying, whining, wheeling and dealing, and finally just sulking. Then a friend on facebook gave me the idea of letting him dip them in nutella. Yes, Nutella. Not ketchup because he hates ketchup but he loves nutella. Wouldn't you know it, the kid ate it and loved it! So gross! At that point though I didn't care. As long as he ate so he could go to bed and I could decompress.

On the bright side that was our only meltdown of the day. I don't technically count it as a meltdown though since it was more of a battle of wills than anything. He made it all through church without any issues so that is a win! Yay! This is the first time this month that has happened. Now I'm just hoping it will continue through the week at school. Good night all! This tired momma is off to bed to recharge and do it all again tomorrow.