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