Friday, November 30, 2007

getting Braces

Well it is official Joshua is getting braces on Dec 11. He goes on the 4th to get the spacers and do the impressions. He is excited about this. I am very happy for him. He will be doing a 2 phase system. he wears these braces for about 9 months. then he gets a retainer till all of his permanent teeth come in. I think this will help him allot. He is picked on at school and does not have allot of self esteem. I am a bit nervous for him I remember what it was like. And he will not be able to eat allot of the foods that he really likes. But he will get use to it.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

talked to my mom

Well they moved her out of the MICU late last night she is now in a regular room. she does not know how long she is going to be there. Yesterday was frustrating cause till the afternoon I couldn't get updates on her at all. I did get to talk to her yesterday morning. The nurses let her use my sister's cell phone just for a few minutes. So that was really nice. She has agreed that moving back to Vegas would be the best thing for her. Part of me wishes she would move here but I know that isn't going to happen.

Well between talking to family yesterday Avery decided to shuve a M&M up his nose man that scared me I had no clue what to do. So I called Ellen and Lucy was there and Lucy had a great idea I used a Q tip to try to move it and I think that broke the candy shell. With Avery's body heat it melted the chocolate and came right out in a big blow. It was gross. Guess it is a good thing it was not a red M&M LOL.

We take Joshua to the orthodontist the afternoon to talk about braces for him. This is going to be fun. Maybe I can get a bag of the rubber bands to do Hope's hair.

So Avery and I are going to just hang out in bed watching cartoons and movies today. I have been pretty tiered so I am just taking it easy.

Monday, November 26, 2007

if it can't get worse

So Sunday Joshua was making his chili (which is really good) And he asked if he could call grandpa Michael So I call him up and Josh is talking to him then hands me the phone he want to talk to me. Mind you this is about 1pm my dad tells me that my sister called him yesterday and my mom is back in the hospital. She was there just a few weeks ago. He tells me nothing else. So I a pissed at this point that my sister did not call. My mom was put in the MICU at LSU hospital early sat. So I find this out because I send my sister an IM yelling at her where does she get off not calling me right away I find out after she has been there over 24 hours WTH So My sister finally calls me I get the very basic info like she is alive. I ask her what the docs say and she tells me it was caused by the drastic temp change. Nothing else she has no clue what her vitals are and what the blood work is saying. So I call the hospital oh boy this is where I get majorly pissed. My sister did not put me on the list of approved people she did not set up a password. I know nothing. I have to sit here and wait. The nurses are giving my sister permission to have my mom call me from her cell phone the next time my sister goes to the hospital. So I am sitting here in my chair with the phone next to me waiting for it to ring. I hate this. I should be there. But I know that I can't. It really makes me feel helpless.

I really hope that my mom moves out of Shreveport and back to Vegas ya it was not that good there either but at least she was not getting sick so much or haing to do all the house work!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Turkey day 2007

Well the family thanksgiving went well. We had a great time thefood was great. It was really fun seeing the family help make quilts for kids in need. I did the ginger bread houses this year. It was really fun. It was great seeing the older kids get into it and see parents help there little ones make them. Jaden and his dad Justan made an awesome video game house with rooms for different systems. Kalob made a cute air plane. CJ made a nice big house with multi rooms. It was really fun helping the little ones make there's. We have a very artistic family!!! It really was a great distraction for the short time I was busy with this I did not think about all the sad stuff going on right now.

Tuesday night I lost my Aunt Rinda. She has been ill and she did not suffer. But it is hard to know she is gone. Plus it is very hard on my with Sean being in a boys home in AK and I can not be with him. I know that no family was there with him and I feel horrible. I am trying to deal with this and is is really hard for me. I want to be able to fly out there and see him but I cannot.

So it is hard on me right now I really do not want to know how I am going to feel this Christmas!!!

Friday, November 16, 2007

seems to be working

Well it has just been afew days since Joshua has been on the meds and it seems like it is working. Today he even rinsed the dishes with out me asking!! I was so surprised. I do think that I will have to increase his meds some in a few weeks after his body gets use to it. But that is okay.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

the appt

Well the Appointment went really well. The doctor was great. He agrees the Joshua is ADHD and his is now taking Concorta 18mg to start. He is also about 10 pounds under weight for his height. So he is drinking a protine drink about 3 times a day and that should help. One of the side effects of the majority of ADHD medication is weight loss. So we are concerned about that. So we are going to give the meds a few weeks before we up his dose the doc feels that it will need to be increased but wants to start him on the low dose first.

So After school today I went and talked to his teacher and he seemed to be a bit better. Of course it takes a few days for it to take full effect so we will see.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Joshua has an appt......

On Monday at 1110. this should be fun. I hope that everything goes well with this. I have been having long talk with him about ow he is acting and how was are very disappointed on how he is acting. I explained to him it really hurts everyone when he is acting up not paying attention and such. I have been having him do a few things around the house near me so I can see how he is. and his teacher is right he will go put something away or go set something and gets distracted by the littlest thing. Then i loose him. It is very frustrating on my part. But we will see how the doc goes.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

So much going on here

Well things are not the best right now. I do not even know where to start. Work is going well I have been pretty busy with that. The kids are okay. We are having alot of problem with Joshua. He is lieing all the time and failing school. We are going to have to put him back on to medication and I really do not want to do that at all. It made him such a zombie. We told him that we would take his viola away if his grade were below a c average but we are having a hard time taking away the one thing he is really good and and enjoys alot. I fear that it will drive him to be worse if he has nothing to look forward too. I am really at my whits end with him. I am making him doctors appointments. So I will go from there. His teacher says that he has the attention span of a fly. I belive that I see that here at home too.