Why do they die and why is it good news for me

So Shannon has watched Disney movies for a long time.....you know how either the mother or the father always die (what is that about truely).....so this morning Shannon is watching Bolt (I have never seen it so couldn't tell ya about it) and I come in the room and Shannon is just balling her eyes out.....sobbing.....she says "Mommy Bolt died"....just sobbing....now I know this is normal....but for shannon this is huge...She is not one to really connect with her emotions.  And there is more...she is doing the monkey bars and a climbing wall when 6 months ago she could even pull her self up in the tree....she is putting full complete stories together.  Even strangers are (somewhat) understand what she is saying....I know these seem like little things, but trust me they are huge for us...it means there is starting to be a balance in the brain.  Small but giant steps.  Keep dying Disney characters, we are crying our eyes out over here....

What is in the gum?

Sooooo  bubble gum....oh my god what a disaster bubble gum is in my home.  Mcgoo loves gum, loves gum..but god what it does to the poor little girl.  She was a nut case tonight, but I am teaching her that it is the gum that is doing it to her.....How can something so simple send her over the edge .  She is trying so hard.. the poor pet....so young and so tortured ...tortured by gum....

Crazy 8

Can you do a crazy "8".....So the doctor says that to stimulate the right side of her brain she needs to do some excersises.  She needs to do a figure "8" and follow it multiple times.  She has not been able to do this up until now......but this morning WE HAVE SUCCESS.  I know it seems like it should be simple but for her it is a struggle.  Like alot of things for Shannon it is the simple things that are a struggle for her.....god it was amazing.....she made it look like she had been doing it forever....when only recently she couldn't do it....It looks like we are making progress, finally a small sign.. a little something to keep me going...to make me feel like I really am heading in the right direction.....who knew it would be in the shape of a crazy 8...

What percentile are you IN ????

And so the saga continues.  More pieces of the puzzle that never seems to get finished.  So as you know I had Mcgoo evaluated and the results came back today.....So in order to qualify for special education she would have to fall in the 7% and below percentile...(not very high huh?  No wonder no one gets any help in the public schools) and although Shannon had one area of 98% percentile, she was 9% and 16% in others......so she doesn't qualify for any help but clearly is in need of help.....She is unable to repeat sentences with more than 4 words in the sentence, she fell into the 9% percentile on repeating numbers and words forward....25% percentile in repeating numbers backwards....that's my girl......always backwards.   So apparently my daughter has a short term memory problem....well go figure.  Any thoughts anyone....anything....????

Here's to another day

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but so far so good.  I can't explain it....what is it...I couldn't wait to get home tonight to see my baby....both of them actually but I get the benefit of working with one of them all day.  For those of you that have an ADHD'er you know how hard it is to get through a day....everything is a struggle even the most simplest tasks is an adventure, struggle, battle, event.....so to have even one task done without a fight is huge.....so keep up the good work Mcgoo.....here's to another day.....

Could it be????

So the weekend is over.....man she hates the fish oil but she is doing so great that she is actually taking the stuff without fighting too much.   She is doing amazingly well.  She had a few little episodes, but god she is 5 so I would imagine that would be expected.  We were I would say about 80 percent perfect this weekend.  That is pretty darn good considering we were at about 5 percent good before.  There were very few moments in any given day that she would do anything I asked on the first time.  She would fight me for everything, could it be.... could it be....could it be......could some of what we have been doing be paying off....could the miracle fish oil....could it be all the exercise she is getting......could it be all the people helping her and supporting her.....could it be the ADHD God's have decided it would be in her best interest to give her mother a break?????  Could it be.

Touch Wood everyone

Ok I neecd everyone to touch wood for me....say a pray...thank the gods, whatever it takes....I am now going on my second full good day with Mcgoo.  Can you believe it?  Haven't had to repeat myself at all.  She has gotten dressed on her own, gone to bed the first time I asked  her....has been asleep by 9:00 two nights in a row.  Ate all of her dinner, apologize for snatching the remote out of my hand with out me asking her to.  She is a totally different kid.  And from experience I know this will change as fast as the weather changes but for today I am totally enjoying just having a normal 5 year old daughter for a change.  

I have been reading up about food dyes.  Didn't know they give kids the same ADHD effects.  And of course just to screw up us parents, they hide the dye in there with big old names so we can't tell what is what....I just got used to MSG....now I have to look for Annaton and Annatoin which you would think is the same name, but nope, they change a letter and think we don't know what it is......This Annaton thing is a natural color taken from a plant so it gets to be labeled in with the "organic" stuff however if you read about it, it has the same effects as synthetic food dyes....UGH !!!!!! 

I have also put Mcgoo on fish oil.  two days of fish oil down and she is a new kid ?????  Coincidence????? Miracle drug????  Doctor really knowing what he is doing????  New hope????  Not sure but if everyone could just touch wood for me and wish me good day I would greatly appreciate it.....