I know, the title of this post inspires anticipation and eagerness in you... I bet you are saying to yourself "Self, we must go check out that awesome blog!"... What?? You didn't say that to yourself?? Oh, ok...
Ok, here's the reason for this post... I am working on a deep meaningful post, but I have writers block. So I thought to myself "Self,I bet the best way to get over that block is to blog about you day/weekend." So, here I am...
Preschool started this week. I really do love my job, though it is stressful sometimes. I have the priviledge of teaching toddlers. It is truly my favorite age to teach. They are so fun and loving at this age. And I have some great kids. Though, this is the youngest class I have had yet. My oldest will turn 2 in November, the youngest will turn 2 at the end of May... I have often said that the act of getting my classes to walk down the hall from one place to another was like hurding cats, this year it is more like fish... Sqiggly, slippery fish...
And now on to the dairy... We have finished Nic's two weeks of elimenations and now we are adding things back in. Today we started him on dairy. I made his morning shake with milk, and... Ok, well thinking back on today, I realize my brain was still in the no dairy mode... Besides the butter he had on his glutin free roll, and some ranch dressing, that is all the dairy he's had today... Hummm... Instead of forgetting and feeding him food with stuff he's not supposed to have in it, I'm forgetting to feed him stuff that does have it... I guess he acted up a little at church with Jon, and had a teeny tiny bit if a tummy ache after church, I haven't really seen much of a reaction. So may be it's not dairy that is the trouble maker...
I did have a revelation this week as Nic and I were driving to school... I have always, selfishly, felt a bit burdened by my babyson's troubles... The "why me?" syndrome. I am very ashamed of this. But it hit me as Nic and I were praying... God opened my eyes and helped me to see past my selfishness. I am not being burdened by having him a's a son... I am reaping so many blessings by having him as a son. It's not a "why me?", it's a "WOW... Me!". I was chosen to be the mother of this wonderful boy. I was chosen to be the mother to these three wonderfully awesome children... I am blessed beyond measure...
Hmmm... May be this wasn't so boring after all...
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
My First Post...
So, I bet you thought that Jonathan (and yes, he will for ever be Jonathan, Jon, or Jon Henry to me... I just can't bring myself to call him JB...) was the only writer in the family... (and as you will notice I do this (...) a lot...) Well, he's not... He may be the better writer... Any ways, I have thought about starting a blog for quite a while now and figured now was as good a time as any. Lots of changes are going on in the Bartlett household lately... (See, told you...) Biggest and Best is my Hubby Man's incredible shrinking body.
Isn't it awesome! And my incredible non-shrinking body... But your not getting a picture of that... But we have started as a family trying to eat better and making better food choices... Which has led to the second biggest change: Babyson's ADHD diet... Oy... But some back ground on that...
Babyson being tough
Nic was diagnosed with ADHD in 2007. You say "What's new, a lot of kids have it these days...". Well, so did I.
Me teaching children for the past 8 years, I know how it is when a child has a problem and everyone is seeing it, except the parents... I didn't want us to be those kind of parents. So, when his Kindergarten teacher suggested that we may want to get him tested, we did. He had mild/moderate ADHD. That really explained all the screaming he did as a baby... All the running back and forth from the living room to dining room and back, bouncing off walls... Literally... So, we put him on medicine. For the last 4 years we have gone up doses, down doses, in-between doses. We couldn't find one that kept him focused and let his bubbling personality come through. This kid has an AWESOME personality... He is funny, he is a chatter box... The kid LOVES to sing... He can break out into song at any given moment... He sings MJ's "Bad" in the middle of class...He is AWESOME. Period. (Ok, before Baby Girl and Eldestson get jealous, I'm sure you will get posts written about you... This one is about your brother) It breaks my heart to see him as a zombie when he is on his meds... We took him off his meds this summer. Yeah, it was hard, but we survived... (You know, it really is hard to think and write when your Hubby Man is in the background chomping and crunching cereal... :-/ urgh...) We decided we hated "the zombie" so much that we were going to keep him off his meds during school... (Cue begging and pleading from teacher...) (Really, his teacher is a wonderful teacher and she is doing awesome with him and we love her so very much! What can I say, she puts up with me and my quirks...) So, we compromised and brought him down to half of what he was taking. But that didn't seem to be helping him very much and wore off quickly. All during this, Hubby Man is losing weight and eating right and yadda yadda... I figured it might just be something the whole family might want to get in on. So, in my researching of diets and better eating for our family, I came across the ADHD Diet. That sparked a memory of an amazing little boy that we had in our school.. I had him for 2 yr old daycare. When he was 2, he was diagnosed with autism. He barely talked. Barely interacted with the other children. Couldn't look you in the face. They had him tested for allergies. They found out that he had allergies to nearly everything under the sun. Ok, maybe not everything, but A LOT of stuff. His mother got to reading and researching and found out that food allergies can cause a lot of different reactions. One of them autism. So, she removed all the food he was allergic to and started him on different supplements. By the time this boy was 4, he was a different child. He was cleared of the label autism and now leads a very high functioning life. That made me wonder, maybe peanuts wasn't all that Nic is allergic to... So, this past Monday, I changed his diet. No gluten, no dairy, no eggs, no corn, no oranges, no preservatives, no artificial colors or flavors, very low sugar. I added Omegas and a suppliment that has minerals to help him focus. He will eat this way for two weeks and then we will start introducing the things we took out back into his diet and see if he has a reaction. What he has a reaction to, will be eliminated from his diet permanantly. It is a rough road. It is hard to find things for him to eat. I am notoriously bad at sticking to things.
But this is for my son... I am better at doing things for my children than I am for myself... I know it will be worth it in the end..
He has not tried to bounce off of walls for the past two days...
I still need prayers...
Nic was diagnosed with ADHD in 2007. You say "What's new, a lot of kids have it these days...". Well, so did I.
Me teaching children for the past 8 years, I know how it is when a child has a problem and everyone is seeing it, except the parents... I didn't want us to be those kind of parents. So, when his Kindergarten teacher suggested that we may want to get him tested, we did. He had mild/moderate ADHD. That really explained all the screaming he did as a baby... All the running back and forth from the living room to dining room and back, bouncing off walls... Literally... So, we put him on medicine. For the last 4 years we have gone up doses, down doses, in-between doses. We couldn't find one that kept him focused and let his bubbling personality come through. This kid has an AWESOME personality... He is funny, he is a chatter box... The kid LOVES to sing... He can break out into song at any given moment... He sings MJ's "Bad" in the middle of class...He is AWESOME. Period. (Ok, before Baby Girl and Eldestson get jealous, I'm sure you will get posts written about you... This one is about your brother) It breaks my heart to see him as a zombie when he is on his meds... We took him off his meds this summer. Yeah, it was hard, but we survived... (You know, it really is hard to think and write when your Hubby Man is in the background chomping and crunching cereal... :-/ urgh...) We decided we hated "the zombie" so much that we were going to keep him off his meds during school... (Cue begging and pleading from teacher...) (Really, his teacher is a wonderful teacher and she is doing awesome with him and we love her so very much! What can I say, she puts up with me and my quirks...) So, we compromised and brought him down to half of what he was taking. But that didn't seem to be helping him very much and wore off quickly. All during this, Hubby Man is losing weight and eating right and yadda yadda... I figured it might just be something the whole family might want to get in on. So, in my researching of diets and better eating for our family, I came across the ADHD Diet. That sparked a memory of an amazing little boy that we had in our school.. I had him for 2 yr old daycare. When he was 2, he was diagnosed with autism. He barely talked. Barely interacted with the other children. Couldn't look you in the face. They had him tested for allergies. They found out that he had allergies to nearly everything under the sun. Ok, maybe not everything, but A LOT of stuff. His mother got to reading and researching and found out that food allergies can cause a lot of different reactions. One of them autism. So, she removed all the food he was allergic to and started him on different supplements. By the time this boy was 4, he was a different child. He was cleared of the label autism and now leads a very high functioning life. That made me wonder, maybe peanuts wasn't all that Nic is allergic to... So, this past Monday, I changed his diet. No gluten, no dairy, no eggs, no corn, no oranges, no preservatives, no artificial colors or flavors, very low sugar. I added Omegas and a suppliment that has minerals to help him focus. He will eat this way for two weeks and then we will start introducing the things we took out back into his diet and see if he has a reaction. What he has a reaction to, will be eliminated from his diet permanantly. It is a rough road. It is hard to find things for him to eat. I am notoriously bad at sticking to things.
But this is for my son... I am better at doing things for my children than I am for myself... I know it will be worth it in the end..
He has not tried to bounce off of walls for the past two days...
I still need prayers...
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