Man I am horrible! I wanted to write sooner but things have been really busy with the kids ending their terms at school, and 3 different birthdays and so much going on in January that it was impossible to be able to write anything. That just means a whole bunch of catching up to do.
All the kids had end of the term in the beginning of the month of January. So we had papers, and studying for tests and stuff like that we had to do, before the term ended. Right after that was birthday galore and illness too. I thought we were all over that but no we still have illness and more homework that I ever thought possible.
Dylan turned 4 and had a great birthday! He loved handing out cake cones and heck he was happy just playing. We had to convince him to open his presents. LOL! He was so cute he had decided that for his treat for his class on his birthday he was going to take string cheese. What a great healthy treat. LOL! I didn't even need to convince him. Then when he got home from school that day all he could tell me was that it was his birthday. :) I asked him how old he was and he actually told me that he was 4! I was surprised since it took him forever to tell me that he was 3. What a funny boy. We have been working on potty training him . I think he does better at school with that than he does at home. He has been making a lot of laundry of course. Hopefully he will get the hang of it soon. That would be AWESOME! He had a sleep study the end of January and I am still waiting for the results. But he had a very interesting thing happened while we were there.
Here is the story:
Check in at the hospital is at 8 pm. So we get there at 8 pm, and they put him in the same room that Rhett had his sleep study in a while ago. As they were getting ready to attach all these wires all over his head and body they brought in a movie for him to watch to try to keep his mind off of what they are doing. As he watch I comforted him as they cleaned and put wires all over his head and body, After they were done he still was watching the movie. I sat with him on his bed because he asked me to be with him. As he watched the movie I was working on all the papers that they needed me to fill out. After a little while Dylan actually started to get tired and asked me to move the bed down which was perfect since the bed needed to be all the way down for the sleep study. After he realized that he was tired he told me he wanted the bed up but I just kept telling him in a minute I have to finish this paper work. Which was funny because by the time I was finished I turned around and he was completely asleep. So I was going to give the staff the paper work to that I finished and there was no one in the hall so I was going to wait but I found someone and they told me to just put it on the chair that was across the hall from the room that Dylan was using. So as I walked across the hall to put the papers downs the door closed behind me and I waited for a minute before I tried to go back in the room. I found the man on the staff that was watching over Rhett. He was helping the other person get another patient settled. After I told him the papers were on the chair I pushed on the handle to enter the room again and the door didn't open. I was like ok this is crazy why isn't the door opening. You cannot pull on the handle since it isn't that type of door handle. I asked the man, "How do you open the door?" He told me to push. I told him I did and pushed on the handle again, it still didn't open so I pushed harder and then there was a little snapping noise that came from the handle. He stood there and watched me try to open the door. I looked over to him and said it isn't opening and so he came over to see if he could open it. He tried to open it and there was no kind of latching in the door handle. So the door was no going to open at all unless the handle gets fixed. So he called someone in engineering to see if they can fix the handle to open the door. The dispatcher forgot to inform them that there was a patient in the room by themselves and no one could get in or out of the room. But lucky he slept through the whole thing and the whole time only moving at the very end. When the engineering person finally got there after an hour of waiting but after he got there it only took him about 5 minutes to pry the handle to the point of being able to open the door. I slipped in when they got it open and made sure that Dylan was still asleep. Of course he was which I was grateful for that since he does wake up almost every night in the middle of the night. So that was around 11pm when I finally got beck in the room but I couldn't sleep very well until my anxiousness left me. I was finally able to sleep around midnight. Dylan did wake up and looked that the person that came in to check on him right in the face. That was before he woke me up at 2:30 am. He looked at me and said movie, and because I am not the bad guy at the hospital I told him I would ask but I knew the answer. She of course told me no and I went and told that to Dylan. I told him and he asked me if he could sleep in my bed so I asked him if he needed hugs and he said yes. So I got into the bed with him and held him until he slept. Then when the other person came to check on him I woke up and moved back to my bed. That was at 3:30am, by then I was exhausted! I had my phone set for an alarm to go off at 5:40 am since the study only went until 6 am. Well the man walked in at 5:50 am and told me that the study was over. We headed home and when we got there I slept I was so tired and Dylan slept a little later that same day. It was funny.
Gavin has been doing good in school as far as I am aware. He does show me his homework and it is always done and done correctly. He loves writing about angry birds. He has written 6 pages or something like that telling the story that he thinks is behind the game. After he writes about the story he then draws a picture. Very funny because he says read it and I have no idea where the spaces are and of course the words are misspelled so as I am trying to read it Gavin tells me the story out loud. Funny boy! He is an amazing big brother to Dylan. When I ask him to make Dylan a sandwich he does and Dylan loves having such a great big brother. He still goes to school with Nikole and has been pretty good about being nice to her as they go to school.
Nikole turned 10! She is growing up so fast. She can be a big helper when she wants to be. Sometimes I think she wants to grow up faster than she really is, but gratefully she isn't growing up that fast. She is really into art and craft things which can be frustrating since she makes a mess trying out all this different things. But it is great that she has found something that she really loves to do. She is very talented. I am going to help her learn to draw and expand her horizon in art. She went to the doctor and was told that she needs to go to the eye doctor. She isn't looking forward to that. She also needs to have all of her eye teeth pulled to make way for the adult teeth. She is a lot like me in ways that I remember. She isn't looking for that at all. Oh well not like she has a choice. We will see how she handles it when the time comes for it to actually happen.
Rhett is stressing me out!!!!!!! His little attitude and such. He is not doing all the school work that he should. He complains all the time about how it isn't fair that he has homework on the weekend. I told him that it is life and he better get used to it. I am going to have to go to his school to find out how far behind he is in all of his classes to see how much he has to make up before the CRT tests. If he is really really far behind I am sure he is going to have even more work. I will have to update this later today since I am going to go talk to school people about the issues that he is having.
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