It's been awhile...

..since I felt caught up. And, while I think it will be another 20 years until I get there I thought it best to catch up on the past week or so before I forget what we have been doing or who I have told what to.

Let's see...last week I had a Dr. appointment (routine, nothing noteworthy) , we had to make up swim lessons, then Tuesday was early dismissal and Davis had a Dr. appointment and then Wednesday Carson had his fillings and a play date with Maya, Davis had Zone and I Had a school board meeting and Thursday a PTO meeting and Friday we were going to go to the American Royal but by the time Friday hit we were beat and Keith could barely move as he hurt his back a week before playing soccer. Then Saturday morning we went to get family photos taken by janiejonesphotography. Janie is awesome and I fell in love with her five acre property and threatened to move in with her. So peaceful and serene...and her scrapbook room is phenomenal. After that I spent some time working as I have deadlines looming and I need to get stuff done before Davis' birthday party next weekend and my parents arrival on the 16th. On Sunday Keith spend the day at Nascar (yes, I did say Nascar....strange but true...) And, that was last week!

This week I tried doing Harper's 6 month photos with amandamphotography and while Amanda was awesome, Harper...not so interested. Up until Monday that girl was princess photography, but now she is not so interested. She simply must get over this! Yesterday morning my Mom's group made wire wrapped rings at church (google them if you wonder what I am talking about) and it was a lot of fun. Then last night I went to dinner with some neighborhood friends to celebrate birthdays and they treated me to dinner at North--and it was awesome and so sweet of them. Betsy had a bit of wine...I wonder if Betsy is doing OK today. And now it is Wednesday, playing catch up. Digging out under the pile of laundry, home work and other things that just don't take care of themselves around here. Today is also my friend Renee's birthday, my father-in-law's birthday, and my dear friend Bonnie's oldest daughter Caitlin's 18th birthday. Happy Birthday Renee, Bob and Caitlin.

Tomorrow Keith and I get to go to school with Davis and spend an hour reading to him and other kids. We are excited about this, and then after that I get to have lunch with my friend Jan for our birthdays. Then swim lessons and on Friday no school, but we do have a Kindergarten playdate at a local gym so that will be fun too. Keith is on call all weekend and I have a lot of work to do so hopefully some time to work will present itself this weekend!

I am going to back up to one item which was the Dr. appt for Davis. Nothing overly serious, but we have suspected for some time that he has ADD. Keith thinks that he personally has it and and has struggled with things like focusing and studying and the more we see Davis being challenged we decided we needed to do something about it. That combined with the feedback from his teacher led us to go ahead and try some medication. We did not take this decision lightly and it took sometime to get here, so we tried it on Thursday and it was like a fog lifted. All of a sudden he could process his thoughts, stay on track, tell us what he was thinking, feeling, process his emotions appropriately and more. He read not one but two different books to us--two we had not read to him. It was amazing. We felt like we finally had found an answer. But we also knew that with the medication came some side affects--like lack of appetite and insomnia. Not only did Davis say he was not hungry, he said he felt sick. Then at 4AM the kids was not only awake but he woke up everyone in the house. It was not a fun morning. We decided that maybe the 30mg dose was too much and gave him 15mg on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The problems continued. The 15mg was not enough to help the ADD and still we had side affects. This week so far we have not given him anything. We are not sure what we will do now. We may try another medication or just wait until parent/teacher conferences on the 22nd to see what his teacher is seeing now. It was so nice to see the side of Davis we got to see on Thursday that I really do want to see that again, but not at the cost of him feeling bad and not sleeping. So....back to thinking and hoping and praying that we figure this out.