You don't want me to hum?

Today at Interactive Metronome Mr. E was more focused than yesterday.Yay!
But he kept wanting to hum along with the beat but it seamed to distract him some. He kept getting higher numbers so Sue asked him to hold off humming until he hit a certain amount of reps. He said "You don't want me to hum?". He started doing better and then he started to add in some beat boxing (silly kid) but his numbers again were higher, so Sue pointed that out to him so he tried really hard not to hum or beatbox. It kinda kept slipping out though.

Sue has Mr. E stand on a balance board while doing the IM when he does his hand taps because he tends to be less wiggly and then he keeps his feet in one place, it helps him focus somewhat better as well. He still was itching some on random areas of his body but it was less today.

Mr. E finished up with 1226 reps! Most reps so far. He would have more but he was goofing around some.

This morning when we first got to Sue's, Jessie was excited to show Mr. E her butterflies she caught. She let him hold one and he excitedly said, "This is the first time I have ever held a butterfly in my whole life!".

Fireworks on the first day of school.

This picture was drawn on the first day of 4th grade this last school year. The students were suppose to draw their favorite thing about summer, so with no surprise Mr. E's favorite thing was FIREWORKS!!!

A little to excited about being at the grocery store!

I don't know where all Mr. E's energy came from today but I took him with me to the grocery store to grab just a few things and I started documenting the experience. This kid was cracking me up!

Whenever we go to the grocery store, Mr. E likes to stop at the bakery first to pick up the 'free' cookie they always give kids. This time I told him no because he had a donut earlier in the day and the donut was enough sugar for the day.
His response, "but mom I think... I already pooped out the donut...."

As we walked to the produce section he said, "mom what if everything was a dollar or free? wouldnt that be cool?!"
To bad the $ store was already created, this kid could have made us millions!

When we got to the produce section, "mom are these weeny peeny watermelon?"
I asked him what that meant and he said " oh you know, like kind of, a little bit smaller."

Walking further, "mom what if I owned this store? We would have so much food huh.....mom what if we lived here? "
I asked him where his room would be..
He said " pretty much anywhere and we could wake up and get whatever we wanted huh mom."
Me, "yep"
"Mom everyday I could pretty much come to this storage."
(We have a cold storage under our porch so we ask the kids to sometimes grab a food item from the 'storage')

Walking further, "Well that sucks there is only a little bit!"
I noticed he had stopped and was looking into a barrel of beans and noticed that they didn't go all the way to the bottom of the barrel. They only went down a few inches, how deceiving right : )

Further down he stopped abruptly and got loud, "IS. THAT. WHAT. I THINK. IT. IS??? Is that broccoli? Is that what I call a broccoli tree? I could make a whole food city and these broccoli can be for the trees!!"

Next to the broccoli, "hey mom, those look like people!" (Ginger) "and the salad can be the grass."

"Mom the most reddest apples are the goodest and most fruitiest."

Should I be fixing his grammar? I love how he talks but he IS going into 5th grade in 2 months.

This was quite an entertaining shopping experience thanks to Mr. E!

Top 5 E-isms

1. "How does it have to be so hot"
Mr. E has always gotten his helping verbs mixed up.

2. While picking out his colonial days outfit at the costume shop, Mr. E saw a ruffly, puffy beautiful ball gown on a mannequin,
"Oh my gosh Emily would blast out huh mom!!"
(Again, he always has made up his own words)

3. My neighbor who knows that Mr. E loves fireworks, asked him if he was going to get any this year.
His response, "pretty much on the 4th we are going to have a whole blob!"

4 ~ His fascination with buildings includes apartments, hotels and motels but mostly he's interested because whenhe's trying to figure out which one the building is. As we were walking the other day, we walked past some apartments and he asked if it was a hotel, we told him they were apartments so he said, "Really!?! Apartments and hotels are like twins, like brother and sister!"


5. Mr. E bought some flower fireworks and was excited to light them and show his friends. When his dad started to light them Mr. E told his friends to "Put your hand over your heart and close (plug) your ears." We laughed when we saw his friends try to do exactly that.

And it's alllll mine!!!

The other day Mr. E was excited to go to the store and buy something with a $1 that he had. After looking around the store he discovered that instead of buying 2 soda cans for .50 each, he could buy a 2 liter for $.99. A whole 2 liter bottle would be all his which means, he didn't have to share with his sisters!

The best part is later that day when his dad came home, Mr. E ran up to him excited to show him his purchase and with about half a bottle of soda left, asked him if he wanted some. His dad (who loves soda) gratefully accepted and drank the glass Mr. E gave him. Later, his dad noticed him drinking from the bottle and asked him if that was the first time he drank the soda like that.
Mr. E said, "no, it's mine so I can."

His dad was a little grossed out.

Late night, Frosted mini-wheats and a Monday.

Today at Interactive metronome, Mr. E really struggled to focus. Sue would remind him to watch the screen or the light and not a minute later he would wiggle and start looking around at other things. Another reminder and another minute and he was unfocused again. It wasn't until the very last round that he was completely focused and was able to finish the session with over 1,100 total reps.

I feel the extra distraction was a combination of going to bed late, getting up early, eating frosted mini-wheats for breakfast (to much sugar and no protein), and the fact that it is the beginning of the week. Mondays get us all right? He was in a fabulous mood which is not always the case when he has 3 strikes against him but I'm sure the sugar-high played the biggest part.

During the session Sue had him try cross-over which is tapping both hands on the opposite leg but the bottom of his feet started to irritate him to much so they went back to tapping his hand on his leg.

It's so interesting how it affects his senses so much, I knew he had some tactile sensory issues but it wasn't until we start doing the interactive metronome that we discovered how much so.

Taking a sweet break.

Mr. E and Jessie taking a quick break while @ their last cello practice before their Colonial Days performance.

Cellos practice for 1/2 hour then the violins come and they all practice for a 1/2 hour, then the violins practice by themselves. So these 2 went through their music and had some time to have a quick treat!