James and stuff
James did not have a good first full day. When I came home with Liz, James came and greeted me out at the car like he always does, and when I asked how his day was his face just fell and said it was terrible and he didn't want to talk about it and went inside. Every time I asked how his day at school was he just said something to the effect that it was a bad, terrible, yucky, (insert negative adjective here) day and he wouldn't tell me why.
He finally told me right before bed what happened. He had to sit out 5 minutes at recess, this means he also did not get chocolate milk at lunch. He got on a red card today- which means he was told at least 3 times he was doing something he shouldn't have been doing. He couldn't remember what it was he did wrong, but he doesn't want to do it tomorrow because he, "doesn't want white milk, he only likes the chocolate milk" *L* Whatever it takes. Heck when Thomas was in K, he came home with frownies everyday-that means big time bad day- like one step above calling mom bad day, but he didn't care, it was the ADHD. James was so upset though. My poor baby.
In other news.
I spent most of my day cleaning and have gotten rid of a bunch of stuff. I have a big box of books to go to McKays. I rearranged James room, put up the Curious George mural thing and an Elmo poster. I brought his dresser into that room, so now his clothes are in there. I still have some other stuff to bring in there, but it's coming together.
Took Thomas to the behavior therapist today; I spent most of the time talking to him not Thomas just played with legos. :-) It was good though. GOD I need to get back into therapy! If for no other reason than to have someone listen to me for an hour every week. Anyway. One of the things we talked about was Thomas and bedtime and the fact that Thomas stays up so late reading and I worry because he reads by his clock, and is up late. He gets up at 6:30-on his own and get ready before I am even up.
The Dr pretty much told me get him a light and let him read, set a time limit and let him self-regulate, be responsible for turning out his light on time. Let him have a glass of water so he doesn't get out of bed and disturb James. Stipulate that if he doesn't get up on time or is cranky the reading time gets turned back. I also said the door has to be closed so he doesn't disturb James.
Tonight was our first night with letting him read. Well I went to check on him, about 30 min before lights out and lights were already out and he was almost asleep. I was so proud of him. He wasn't pushing himself just because he could. He read until he was tired, and put the book down, turned out the light and went to sleep. My little boy is growing up. I hate that. *half smile* ~