It has been awhile

I have been on vacation a little to long!! I need to start blogging again.
We have had a busy few weeks!!! The kids started school again this year and Spencer is now is in kindergarten. That was a fast 5 years holy cow. I can not believe that I have 6 wonderful and amazing children and 3 of them are in school. Joseph is being home schooled this year until he gets into a charter school called OWL charter school. He starts tomorrow. Allison is in 3rd grade and loves it she is in the advanced learning Placement program and is doing great!!! And Spencer is so funny he came home from school and listened quite well, or else quite scared because in his prayers he keeps saying and bless me to be good so I do not have to go to the principles office. Oh I love this boy he is just amazing and wonderful!!!

Allison is having a hard time and I am not quite sure why? She is wanting a lot of attention and has been trying to get it by acting out. I feel like we give her a lot of attention. She is always a big help and never has to be told what to do. She rarely gets into trouble and so for her to be doing this and acting out like this is not OK and I am going to have to take her out and have a mommy daughter day with her and talk. she had been saying things like I do not like myself and I am ugly, I have no idea where she is getting this from and it makes me very sad to see her like this.

Joseph is doing amazing!! About 2 months ago I was praying about the direction that we should go to get help for Joseph. We were at a loss as what to do with him. We had tried all the meds out there and nothing seemed to work. He just keep having the same behaviors of course they would go away for a time or be manageable but nothing seemed to take them away. So the thought came to mind to take him off all his meds and everything would be fine. Now mind you I was a little apprehensive about doing this because we were getting ready to leave on vacation and the drive was 2 days. and I was by myself, David had to stay home and work. And so I went on faith and prayer and 5 days into our vacation Joseph was completely off all his meds and has been ever sense. Seeing him off his meds has been amazing. The only thing that I can see his that he is more aware of his senses instead of being underaware he is over aware. He has what is called sensory processing disorder and he does not process the senses like a normal person would. He loves to touch but hates being touched because it hurts him. He loves to make loud noises but when an unexpeted loud noise is made it scares him and he reacts to it in a defensive way making him aggressive. I know this is weird but now that he is not on any meds I believe that the OT we are doing to help him will actually help him. We are still seeing milestones in him and he is 10 years old. Like today he wanted to play the game picture picture. This is a game that requires writing and thinking and it is very hard for him to do this. And he did it and was happy to do it. With all the encouragement that we give him the better he gets. Also for the first time in 4 years he has wanted to read books that are fiction. Yes Joseph is a non fiction child if he could I think he would be building his car so when he turns 16 he can drive it. It would not suprise me if we had the parts that he would build one he already does it with other things like his remote control jeep he took it apart and then put it back together again and it works just fine still!!!! Any ways the mile stones are still coming with him!!!!

Sammie has learned to climb out of her bed, but will not show us how she does it kind of sacry because she is so little and tiny still even though she just turned 10 months. she is 18lbs and 28 inches long I think. she just got 2 more teeth and now has a total of 4 teeth she aways has her tongue out and a smile on her face!! She is an amazing little girl and I love her so much!!!

Micheal is now potty trained and doing great at it. He is so funny sometimes though. He will have to go potty but not want to and so he will say I do not want a chocolate right now I will go in my pants and then we run him to the bathroom and he will go. Or if he has already gone in his pants he will say Micheal does not get a chocolate because I went potty in my pants. He is so dang cute and adorable I wish I could hold him all day long.

Maddie is doing great and is such a creative little girl she could play for hours with her toys and not even know that the time has passed. Now with Spencer in school in the morning she has started to play with Michael or they both follow me around while we do chores in the morning and this week we will start going to the YMCA again.

I guess that is it for now!!!