Birthdays on the Brain

Christi's birthday marks the expensive time for us. We have a birthday every month between September and January. If the baby is born in February the pattern will continue, but as of yet Christi has not delivered before her due date. SO.......

Christi celebrated her 31st birthday. She was taken out to eat a total of four times. She also had an OB appointment on her birthday, no concerns the baby's heart beat sounded great. The baby even kicked the Doppler and yes Christi can feel it.

Nick says he has the most uninteresting life ever. We disagree Nick's boss mentioned this week to both Cathy and Steve and Nick that he is putting Nick in for management testing.

Dreigan was placed on Ablifiy on Monday. We don't know if it was a coincidences or the medication but he gave Christi the best preset he got himself up in the shower and ready for school with very little struggle on Tuesday. The school also reports better behavior. He is also selling popcorn if you would like to order some please let us know. Out of town family can order from Dreigan if they wish log on to www.gswcbsa.org, Fill in pack 324, Bloomfield, Dreigan Wilson on the order form. He also went with the Wilson's to Sutherlen farm, the pumpkin patch. He missed the popcorn booth sell for this.

Fionna has a new best friend, Hailey. She has moved into a house down the street and is only a few months older. She spent the night with her on Saturday and every free moment.

Naya has spent the week trying to keep up with the big kids, not wanting to e left behind and very unhappy when she had to be because she wasn't big enough to go. She did have mom and dad all to herself on Saturday. she thought that was as cool as cool could be.
Aurora just wanted to say Hello!

No rest of the wicked!!!

If that's true Christi must have been very wicked this week. Monday was her first full day at her new job. Tuesday brought scouts and at scouts, due to very strange things, Christi is new the cub master for pack 324. Wednesday she had a home visit which made her run late in picking up everyone. Thursday brought another home visit and family night for Head Start. Friday the boys and Girls club was close and what should have been simple became complicated. Apparently Dreigan's school to Christi's new classroom is walking distance. The only problem is Dreigan didn't know the way, so Christi left work and picked him up from work and then returned to work. Then Fionna refused to get off the bus at Christi's work, which scared Christi and everyone else, because Christi and Dreigan could not get down the block fast enough to help her feel better. She was expecting brother on the bus and wasn't real sure what to do without him

Dreigan had a great week his behavior for the most part was improved. He also had a field trip with the pack to the library, where he showed the members of our pack who had never been to the library before around the library.

Fionna went to a swimming birthday party on Friday, in fact she brought the whole family. As a family we had a ton of fun.

Naya had a normal week for the most part. She is adjusting to Christi's new early hours.

Nick has started commuting with a coworker to and from work which has helped so much. He is also been very busy driving Ben where he needs to go, since Ben can't drive right now.

Sorry we were so busy we didn't get any pictures.

Time Flies

I don't know if its business, laziness or tiredness, bit sorry for the long delay.
So here are the quick high lights
Dreigan:
On Tuesday September 2nd Dreigan received his Bobcat and Wolf ranks, five belt loop, and a few other awards GO Dreigan! He also had more family their to support him than all the other kids combined. What can we say but we all love Dreigan.
Of course that above passage makes Dreigan behavior all the more frustrating. Christi has been on the phone with Dreigan's school almost everyday for the last three weeks. At the start of school Dreigan was placed on Depakote, with little to no positive effect. It didn't control his moods as it was suppose to and seemed to make the Stattera not work at all. Thus giving him absolutely no impulse control. Well on Monday the 8th we took him to the doctor where it was noticed he had broken out into hives, meaning he is allergic to Depakote. We are still working closely with the doctors, it is very possible that we will have to hospitalize Dreigan to get his meds right and it looks as if for now he will be returning to the contained classroom from mainstreaming. Please continue to send your love, support, and prayers this way as we try to find our way through this.

Fionna
She has settled into to Kindergarten after a bit of a rough start. She relapsed on the 3rd being sick and spent the day home. Also on the 9th her school call to say she was missing a vaccination. The county health department is moving this week so they weren't doing shots. She had an appointment on Thursday the 11th with our PCP. When we got to the doctor's office according to their records she had had the missing shot. So missed days for nothing. It also seems that her troubles with a bully have seemed to settle out.

Naya
Naya has taken some big steps to staying clean and proud and dry. Naked dish washing after an accident in which she stripped ALL her clothes.
She now goes to the bathroom to go potty even if she only makes it 50% of the time. On Friday the 12 she spent the day with Grump Paul , she had mixed feeling about this. We know it was good for her though and her relationship with Paul. We also took her to the circus for the first time in her memory. Last time she was just short her first birthday. She thought she was pretty cool. She loved the elephants. She did say no pictures please sorry.

Christi
Started her new job in a way. On the 4th she started doing 4hrs a day teaching and 4hrs a day FSAing. The only problem both these jobs are full time jobs and she is expected to complete all the work that goes with those toe 40 hr week jobs in just 40 hrs a week. Well there is a light on the 15th she starts her new position full time. Thank God for small favors. To get caught up Christi spent four hours on Saturday just finishing what what had to be done for the woman who is taking over the caseload. Nick says he hasn't seen Christi so happy and relaxed in a while, doing what she loves. On Wednesday the 10 the kids helped Christi make play dough for her classroom.

Nick
Just plots. He works 40+ hours a week. He did stay home sick himself and with Fionna, since she couldn't go to school until she received her phantom shot, on Wednesday the 10th.

Friday the 12 night be complete accident we had dinner with Jim and Susie. We all turned up at the same restruant at the same time. I love happy coincidents!
As I said on the 14th the family went to the circus. The kids really seemed to enjoy it. Dreigan loved the stunts motorcycle drivers. Fionna loved the acrobats "dancing in the air", Naya loved the animals especially the elephants. You have to admire the acrobats in a small circus they perform three or four diffrent acts