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one of her previous punishments was to have him walk in circles around the classroom for over an hour while the other students did crafts i talked to d about this later and he told me that he went to time out 2 or 3 times everyday thirty minutes 2 or 3 times a day means he was spending up to 1 1 2 hour of the 2 1 2 hours of kindergarten in time out everyday i could tell his teacher was sort of at the end of her rope with him and then she said ya know what we could do to really push his buttons we could send him to first grade for a few days those kids won t put up with his attitude for one minute and i replied is this a real question she assured me that it was a real possibility and that we could come right back to kindergarten after a few days we finally parted ways with promises to be in contact after the weekend with a decision i thought and thought and prayed and consulted with anyone i thought would have a valid opinion and i decided against it i decided that what d was struggling with was social interactions and that he should stay with his peers to work on that and that i would try to supplement him academically at home i sent his teacher an email explaining all of this and she never even opened it i hope my caps lock is adequately expressing my frustration with this woman so i thought we were dropping the issue thursday of that week i got a phone call after school from the principal she said it sounded like d was ready for first grade and wanted me to come down to talk to her and the first grade teacher so we went i expressed all of my misgivings does this mean 2nd grade next year he s so little what will we do when all of his friends are 16 and he s only 15 what if kids are mean to him and they put me at ease quite a bit they told me that we had lots of options to try if full day school was too hard for d but that we would find something that would work i just fell in love with the first grade teacher and i think she fell in love with d a little bit too we agreed to try it for two weeks and then decide if it was going to be permanent so we got him a lunchbox and a haircut and he went to first grade for the first couple of weeks he came home and would exclaim how awesome school is he just blossomed before our eyes all of his behavior problems evaporated even at home he s discovered that he loves math his reading ability has just soared he s made new friends it was been a total success even though his teacher has assured me that he is exactly where he s supposed to be now in every area socially reading level writing ability number sense i still wonder if it was the right choice this change will affect him for the rest of his life or at least the rest of his school life it seems like a very drastic move when his kindergarten teach could have done more to supplement his learning and keep him interested but then i also think that he would have been more work for every teacher he ever had if we hadn t moved him but i m so happy that he s finally happy it really has made all the difference for him it was really hard for us to see our sweet smart boy hating school and now he loves it and he s excited to be learning things i don t know if it would be the right choice for everyone kids grow up so fast these days as it is but for d he was ready and i m so grateful that he was given the opportunity posted by tiffrsmith at 10 18 pm 1 comment monday january 14 2013 little scientist a sample of the conversations d and i have had in the past week d mom do you know what cars are made out of me well they are made out of lots of different things d no mom they are made out of atoms me you re right everything is made out of atoms huh even the air you breathe is made out of atoms d it is i bet smoke is just gray colored atoms floating in the air me what do you think will happen when we put these ice cubes in the hot water and in the cold water d i think the ice will melt in the hot water but it will not melt in the cold water after discovering that the ice melted in both kinds of water just at different rates me why do you think the ice melted in the cold water d well it just wasn t like cold enough d mom can you ever destroy atoms me no you can t d then why does my book show them getting broken points to an illustration of enzymes sawing molecules apart we then had a conversation about chemical bonds and conservation of matter the way this kid s mind works scares me sometimes he s sharp that s for sure posted by tiffrsmith at 11 54 am no comments sunday january 6 2013 changes baby still doesn t have a nickname i had decided last week that i was going to start calling him tiger because he was so ferocious he screamed so loud and for so long one night that james and i were a little scared of him but in the last week he s turned into a really nice calm baby he hardly fusses at all any more he ll sleep anywhere and doesn t even need me to rock him anymore to get to sleep he has decided that he likes bath time and he doesn t mind diaper changes anymore either he is getting the cutest little double chin and is growing out of his newborn size clothes his eyes aren t swollen anymore and now he s got the same big dark eyes that d has i swear that he s smiling already and he has started making cute little baby noises in the last couple of days too so tiger doesn t seem to fit so well anymore d is struggling with having a new person in the house he loves his little brother but he is really having a hard time sharing mom he threw a big fit at the store the other day screaming about how nobody in our family likes him anymore we all just like the baby and he wanted to go live with a new family it broke my heart and infuriated me all at the same time it probably doesn t help that he s been cooped up in the house for weeks with no kids to play with it s been so cold that i can t even send him outside to play but james goes back to school next week and d is going to start going to daycare a few days a week in less than three weeks i go back to work and we ll all get back into a routine a crazy busy routine but at least there will be some structure to our days baby s first bath once his circ was finally healed we gave him a bath in the sink he hated it he started pushing off with his legs and would have ended up in the other sink with all of the dirty dishes if i hadn t been holding on so tight we quickly switched to the baby bath but he still hated it the first few times i finally figured out that he likes his water hot not warm and he s been much ha posted by tiffrsmith at 11 26 am no comments thursday december 27 2012 the goodest christmas ever we had a really wonderful christmas around here everyone got up around 8 00 and we opened stockings i really think d would have been ok if his stocking was all he got but of course it wasn t all he got i tried really hard to buy thoughtful gifts and not just buy things because they were a good deal anyone else have that problem he ended up with fewer gifts than usual but he loved everything he got all day he kept exclaiming this is the greatest best goodest christmas ever after presents we had a nice breakfast all together and then we did nothing it felt so nice to not have anything that i had to do especially after working so frantically to get things done the day before i was up until 1 am knitting baby a stocking ridiculous i know james played his guitar and i sat on the couch snuggling with the baby and watching d play with his new toys it was completely wonderful james had to work in the afternoon evening which was a huge bummer as he was getting ready to go d told him just take the day off dad christmas is for families it was heart breaking once he had gone to work me and the boys headed to my mom s house for our traditional prime rib dinner there was much baby snuggling and laughter and good food one of the funniest moments was when my mom attempted to toast some french bread she didn t just burn it she started it on fire the smoke alarm went off for quite a while much to the annoyance of the kids but all the adults could do was laugh we had a great time opening presents too everyone got and gave really great stuff this year my dad got a cat and was so so excited about it sadly no one got a picture but the look on his face was priceless and i gave nikki a harry potter snuggie my favorite gift of the night after presents and dessert were done we all agreed that it had been one of the best christmas s ever i m not sure why this one seemed so special but it really was wonderful d and his spider man snugglie d loves his zombie me and the boys santa brought d a raphael set handing out the presents at my mom s cousin m made baby a hat all by herself my mom really loved the pictures i gave her nikki and the harry potter snuggie my favorite present of the year posted by tiffrsmith at 5 04 pm no comments sunday december 23 2012 things i ve learned i can t believe how quickly the days are flying by baby who still doesn t have a nickname we re working on it is 9 days old today how can that be possible we ve been so busy with dr s appointments and getting ready for christmas and having visitors hopefully things slow down for us soon i feel like i ve learned lots of things in the last nine days in no particular order 1 baby does not like to be messed with he cries more than d did but still not a lot he especially hates it when you dress or undress him change his bum and bathe him and he cries when he s tired d never did that 2 it s easier adjusting to having two kids than it was adjusting to having one kid even though it s been nearly five years since d was born i feel like i m an old pro at this easy peasy 3 recovering from having a second baby is easier that recovering from the first baby i remember sitting on the couch for about two weeks after d was born this time i was out running errands three days after giving birth i just don t have time to sit around and i think getting up and being active has actually helped me bounce back more quickly of course it probably also helps that i m sleeping better this time around 4 nursing is way easier the second time i was in total agony for at least the first 10 days of nursing d this time it never got too painful and i already feel normal or as normal as you ever feel while nursing 5 those bonding hormones are some powerful stuff i ve already forgotten about how sick uncomfortable and tired i was for nine months and how painful labor is i m good at making babies and i want more hopefully it won t take me another five years to convince james again posted by tiffrsmith at 9 50 pm 1 comment sunday december 16 2012 our new little miracle we are reviving the blog i just can t help myself from sharing all the gory details of our newest little guy s birth i went into labor wednesday night my sisters were here with me trying to get me to laugh hard enough that labor would start contractions started before they even got here so they timed me and took me for a walk and just sat with me nikki took d home with her so that we wouldn t have to shuffle him around in the middle of the night when i went to the hospital as soon as they left my contractions stopped i had a few strong enough to wake me up in the night but they weren t consistent at all i stayed home from work knowing i really was in labor and sat around waiting for something to happen i had a dr s appointment in the afternoon and when i saw him he told me i was dilated to 3 cm he told me that breaking my water wasn t an option quite yet because the baby s head was still floating too high he told me we could wait a few days and see what happened or i could go over to the hospital and start on pitocin i really didn t want to have any pitocin but i wanted to be done being pregnant even more i agreed to let them induce me hopeful that a small dose would be all i would need to get things going they told me to go get something to eat and that the hospital would call me when they were ready for me since we had some downtime we went and picked up d and we all went to wendy s before we dropped him back off to my sister he started crying and saying that he was going to live at nikki s from now on because the baby was going to be living at our house now it was very sad we consoled him the best we could dropped him off and went home to wait i laid down to rest while i could and my contractions started within the hour they were about 3 minutes apart so we headed up to the hospital it was a very busy night for having babies and we got the last empty room once we were settled in the contractions had slowed back down but they had done enough to bring the baby down that i was able to have my water broken i was having lots of back labor and the nurse told me that from her exam she was pretty sure the baby was face up when my doctor got there he said he thought the baby had his head turned sideways either way i was in agony and not progressing very quickly i got stuck at about 5 cm for quite awhile i got up and got in the bath sat on the birthing ball laid in bed in several different positions and nothing brought me any comfort but the moving around did seem to get things going again and i started progressing very quickly i felt like i needed to push but they kept telling me that it wasn t time i was really losing it yelling and screaming at the nurse and at the doctor finally i looked at the nurse and yelled i need to push now she said ok brought the doctor back in and they started to have me push pushing was much more difficult than it was with d because the baby was in a weird position they had my lay more on my back than i would have liked but it made my pushes more productive i pushed for maybe half an hour and then he was here he was born at 1 41 am weighed 7 lbs 11 oz no wonder he was harder than d and was 20 inches long and i did it without any drugs not even the pitocin and didn t even need any stitches they laid him on my chest for a minute and then he stopped breathing on his own they told me that he had aspirated on some fluid as he was coming out they took him over to the warmer and put him on some oxygen i guess that didn t work as well as they wanted because pretty soon they took him down to the nicu to hook him up to the baby cpap machine they told me they d have for an hour when they took me to my room we stopped to see him he was all hooked up to machines and monitors and had an iv in his hand his oxygen levels weren t stable enough for them to let him go yet so i went to my room with out him i rested for a while and finally at 7 am they told me to come down to nurse him it is a strange thing to have a baby and not get to hold him for the first time until 5 1 2 hours later i went down and nursed him and snuggled with him and went back to my room without him they finally brought him to me at about 9 30 just in time to meet the rest of his family d was overjoyed with him and james just marveled about how much 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