Maybe the charger needs batteries.

Always a hairy haircut.

It was time for Mr. E to have a haircut.

Since I now have an apprentice under me at my salon (Anna), I decided to have her practice on Mr. E. The tricky part is, is that Mr. E absolutely hates the newly cut hair to fall on or down his neck whatsoever, and really, who doesnt that bother. With this kids tactile sensitivities its extra bothersome believe it or not. It's always harder to cut hair on a somewhat squirmy and impatient kid, BUT I was Super impressed with Mr. E today!!

 Anna is still learning, so a haircut takes a little longer than it normally would so I prepped Mr. E. (especially Since things tend to roll out of his mouth) I told him that he needs to be very nice and not complain or whine because Anna is learning, and we want her to feel good about herself while cutting his hair. I was proud of him, he was very polite! He did ask a few times when she would be done but other than that he did great. It did help that half way through the haircut, Anna let him play games on her IPhone.

The first half of the haircut, Mr. E told Anna all about his oragami tanks, buildings, airplanes, jets ect. Then moved onto his other obsession, minecraft which then lead to the question, for the umpteenth time 

    "mom why can't I play on your IPad"

 I again told him that the charger wasn't working.

 He then said "mom maybe the charger just needs batteries". 

I said "yes maybe."

Drum Performance

Today I asked Mr. E to take our keyboard down to the basement and he was gone for quite a while. I found him in his room with the keyboard.

I asked him what he was doing and he said that the books set up around him are the cheering crowd and he was playing the drums in a concert for them. It was cute to watch, he had some of the auto music playing while he pretended to drum. He has loved the drums since he was 1 yr old and has even had a cople small drum sets but I think it's time for a bigger set. His inspiration for this came from a you tube video my husband showed Mr. E of a drum solo at a Rush concert. 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkucr1jJpQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGHkucr1jJpQ

Playing at Grandma and Grandpa's House

Mr. E loves playing at his Grandma and Grandpa's House. Half because he loves his cousin's, especially his cousin Griffin and half because Grandpa has the coolest yard EVER!!!

Monday grocery shopping

Holy Threaken Shanks! (another one of his words he made up, and is one of our favorites)

Back in July we went to Walmart and Mr. E was super excited about all the fireworks they had. He was a little dramatic. He begged and begged to buy some right then but I told him (like we have told him every single day about 20x in the day ~no exaggeration~ ) that we were only buying some on the 24th.

Mr. E had his Heely's on, he lost one wheel so he balanced on one foot while holding on to the cart.  This kid cracks me up!

The Attention Center

Today we visited our favorite person Dr. Jones @ the Attention Center.

Every visit we re-fill out forms, he keeps everything on file and we have had to look back through a couple of times.  ~ During this visit I told him about taking Mr. E off of his medication towards the end of the school year to see how well he would do. I don't think I posted about that (but wanted to). ~  So briefly: We decided to see how Mr. E would do not taking his medication, not as a permanent thing but just to see where he is as of now. Dr. Jones doesn't advise taking kids off their medications for the summer because often times with ADD/ADHD comes behavior issues. Typically Mr. E tends to have highs and lows through out the day. He can snap pretty fast, so the medication evens out his mood. ~ Off the medication we were pretty excited about how Mr. E was doing emotionally. He had a lot more energy and seemed more outgoing than he is on the medication, he seemed to be more on a high than not (maybe more ADHD). We wondered if part of his constantly happy mood was the fact that school was going to end soon......  ~ I told Mr. E's teacher what we did after about a week and a half of no medication and she seemed a little bothered that we didn't let her know before hand but I really wanted to see what she saw without her knowing what to watch for. She said his focus was completely gone, so I can understand why she was frustrated. We also noticed his lack of attention. He's not always a fast mover so getting him to do something can take 2-3 times of asking while on the medication so Mr. E off the medication was more like 10-12 times asking and getting upset with him before he would do what we asked.  ~  When we added in Interactive metronome, he started to even out more. it was so interesting to watch. I told Dr. Jones about Interactive Metronome and the results we were seeing. He was not familiar with it so he asked a number of questions and wanted to know the results when we finished. He thought it sounded great!

 

Dr. Jones has DS's for the kids to play with. No wonder Mr. E loves going there. ~ It's great because while I go in to talk with Dr. Jones, the kids are entertained. After I talk to Dr. Jones then he has Mr. E come in, he's so sweet and encouraging with Mr. E. ~  Sadly Dr. Jones is quite a bit older so I'm worried he'll retire before we don't need him anymore.

"HI, I'm Mr. E"

Mr. E and I were tired this afternoon, so while relaxing I decided to ask him some Q's

Hi I'm Mr. E, 

My favorite things to do are:

   Play Mind Craft

   Ride my bike and scooter that sparks

   Light fireworks

   Go down water slides 

   Play with Lego's
   Jump on the trampoline

   

My favorite foods are:

   Spaghetti 

   Shepherds Pie

   Pancakes

My favorite treats are:

   Reese's Peanut Butter cups

   Butterfinger candy bar 

I don't like:

   Working

   School

   Eating soggy cereal

   Melted cheese

   Fire alarms

   Touching things that are to cold or to hot

   Stinky stuff

   Seeing soggy sandwiches or bread in water

Things that make me laugh:

   When Zeek (my little brother) toots

   

My favorite Movies:

   Forces of Nature

   National Geographic

Favorite Book:

   Disasters

My Best friend:

   Tristin

When I grow up I want to be:

   An engineer

My favorite animals:

   Reptiles 

Favorite color:

   Yellow

   Blue

   Then green

Tuesdays Top Ten E'isms

I've realized that a lot of the funny things this kid says is while we are driving in the car. Maybe its a good time for his brain to get that deep thinking in...?

1. "Mom I had a dream that me and Tristin and my friends (Tristin is a friend also...) were skydiving and yelling 'WooooHoooo!' and then, 'Ahhhhhh Oh No We Are Going To Die!'
(Mr. E wants to skydive super bad)

2. With complete seriousness Mr. E says, "Mom I'm kinda afraid with Talin around." (Neighbor boy)
Me, "oh yeah?"
Mr. E rubbing his arm, "Yeah he kind of a little bit is getting a lot if hair and......you know.......werewolf."

3. Mr. E "Mom why do we have meat in us?"
Me, "you mean our muscles?"
Mr. E, "....Ohhhhhhh I see! Wait meat is muscle?"

4. While playing the DS, I hear Mr. E say, "I'm getting confuseses"

5. Mr. E came walking in the front door and very matter a fact said, "Well mom I'm a wizard now. Leo helped me with the code so I'm a wizard now. I just don't know how to do magic yet. See watch." Mr. E then put a box on the floor and said, "abracadabra turn into a lizard. See mom, nothing. I don't know how to do magic yet."

6. At Walmart I heard "Becky?" I turned and it was Mr. E.
He continued, "Can I call you Becky?"
Me, "why?"
Mr. E, "because its getting a little annoying to call you mom. Hey Becky can we get some milk?" I just stared at him not knowing how to respond and he said, "Mom please can I call you Becky now?"

7. The other morning I came into the kitchen to see Mr. E eating rice crispies with brown sugar sprinkled on it, no milk. (He can't put milk on rice crispies because they go soggy to fast and the soggy texture even in the slightest, is to much for him)
He says to me "Mom I'm having brown sugar snackle pop!!"
(I think he means 'crackle pop'.)

8. Mr. E was laying opposite his older sister on the couch, heads almost touching. Casually in conversation I over heard his sister telling him about being sick up at girls camp and still not feeling well at that moment. Mr. E's response (which again was completely casual) "Livvy look on the bright side, just calm down and everything will be OK."

9. Watching TV, Mr. E saw an ad for NBCmouse.com and said, "Ohhhhh that's right mom NBCmouse.com is what it is. Whenever you get confused and don't know what school is about you can go there and be happy." (Makes sense....right?)

10. "Ummmm Mom the gluer threw up!"
I gave Mr. E some paper, a small glue gun and some crayons so he could make crayon art (pinterest). I guess to much came out at one point.