12-26-13

This morning Jacob had an appointment at the doctors so we could discuss how his medication is affecting him. The only problem he is having is that it is making some foods taste different. He has lost some weight since his visit a couple weeks ago. We still haven't gotten a reply from Jacob's teacher's on how the medication is affecting his attention at school. Dr Thill recommends we keep him on this dose and give him time to adjust. Our next appointment is in March. 

Adam is spending the night with Aunt Bippi tonight and Peyton get to come home with us.

She likes our new trash too!

And Eli gets to spend the night with Nana and Papa

A few days after Jacob's appointment we received this email from Mr Henderson.
( I've noticed a slight improvement in Jacob's attention over the last week or so of school before break.  I've been really happy with him overall the last couple of weeks.  He seems to be taking a great deal of pride in his work (especially his writing) and his newly acquired responsibility to take his medicine every day at 10:40.  Mr. Goff and I have put him in the position of being responsible for remembering his pill (Mr. Goff walks him back after resource time so we know that he is remembering).  I reminded him on the first day to make sure he took his meds and have not since.  He has done a great job remembering and I have told him as much.  I find that Jacob's entire outlook changes when he has these points of pride on a daily basis and it is extremely encouraging that he is able to find these points of pride himself (i.e. writing and math).  It says a lot about his self esteem and work ethic.)

Christmas 2013

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Stockings first

Giving Daddy Minecraft for the computer.

Book 2 of 39 Clues!

Jacob with our new hoses!

Jared and I were waiting for the boys to wake up this morning. They were up shortly after 8am and ran for their stockings. In their stockings they got light up toys, m&m's, a pez dispensers, m&m candy cane, a vehicle, twistable crayons, gum, and batteries. After stockings the boys were excited to give Daddy a code they'd purchased so he can buy minecraft on the computer. He also got his own bag of m&m's. Then the boys took turns opening their gifts. They each got a different colored roll of duck tape, Dinosaurs (Jacob got a shark), Micro charger launcher cars, a small lego set, a matchbox car.  Jacob and Adam got books (39 Clues - One False Note and Magic Tree house - Dolphins and Sharks) and True Heroes die cast vehicles. Eli got a Spider-man figher pod set and Captain Hook's hook. We also got several snow sleds. Eli got the Coast Guard lego set, Adam the fire station lego set, and Jacob got the police station. Together Jared and I got 200 feet of some water right garden hoses. I also got some silvertoe socks, and coffee from Jared. The boys spent the next several hours putting their lego sets together. Jared made some banana bread. I got to put Eli's set together which was really fun! He had fun playing with all his minifigures and sharks and other things as I got them built.  Nana and Papa came over around 2:00 to visit and share a meal with us. Nana brought rolls, turkey, stuffing, and corn to add to our meal. We had a nice visit while we enjoyed watching the boys play together with their legos. After they left Eli got in the tub and played with his new legos in there. This evening we had popcorn, pop and ice cream while we watched Polar Express.