X-Ray

Yesterday Brianna and I reviewed the results from all our therapy. The X-ray comparisons were amazing!! Even without the x-ray, though, we can see a huge difference in Brianna. She is completely different and though not altogether pain free, she has a life now. Last year she would do one day of school work and then it would take her a week to recover. She is working really hard every day at the college and she's not even hugging her ice-pack so much anymore. She was afraid to get the x-ray. She said that she was afraid the chiropractor would say she was all better and she felt like she was HALF way there. Well, the chiropractor said she's half-way there, too, so pretty perceptive, I think. I feel a difference and I will be done sooner than Bri. I am so tired of appointments!!

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Before the 2 miles... after she had a shiner in her cowlick as she threw herself on the pavement and konked her head.

It took an entire mile of running for her mouth to stop...  It wasn't going to stop except when we went past the one mile mark she decided I meant business. We walked back and she was compliant and even held my hand until we got home and she went straight into her control freak mode. I went to pieces. We'd been battling for three straight hours. I took them into the school for their services and the teacher took one look at me and said, "I'm getting you the number for the behavioral specialist at the clinic."

Steve took over the afternoon. Got an email from James' teacher that he was trying out for the class clown which was a total distraction. Peyton and Grace thought he was funny. The teacher asked him to do some push-ups and he freaked out and wouldn't do them. So, I had a chat with him about distracting and interrupting and about doing push-ups for Mrs. C. He did them for me. I told him that the girls have had to do push-ups at Bible Camp when they were late for line-call or left their things dragging, etc.. It's not a bad thing. It's a tool to remind him of what is expected of him. This morning he apologized and did the push-ups for her while I was waiting. I hope that from now on he can view the discipline in this way rather than panic and freeze up. But that might take awhile for him not to just switch into fight or flight, I mean, that's been the biggest thing I have had to work with. Used to be when I required a time-out or something he would get violent, scream, and throw and break things and it could last 5 hours. It's still the same thing  but on a lesser scale. His brain is conditioned to panic.

Steve had the kids fold some plastic sheets that were covering the new concrete. Oh my. You would have thought he was killing them. It took them at least an hour of crying and saying they couldn't and fighting each other before they finally put their heads to it and folded them. They did a great job. The plastics were used again last night and so they get to practice again. It's great for large motor skills.

I have been having them fold all their own clothes. James in particular has been a bit careless about how messy he is at meals and wetting his pants etc... and we were going through the clothes!! Since he has been taking care of his own clothes he hasn't been wetting hardly at all, except when he was mad about folding the plastic. So,  yesterday he had quite a pile of clothes to put in the washer and follow through with. He doesn't like to take the time to fold them right, but since I keep throwing them back in the basket if they are just rumpled into a ball, he is starting to do a good job. Anyway, he threw them all in a drawer and tried to hide them. lol. I told him I was coming to see how neatly his drawers looked and he ran off and redid everything and was proud of his work when he was done.

Ugh. Christina is learning to whistle. Yeah, she's 14! Why is it none of my kids can whistle?  CAUSE MOM HATES WHISTLING! 

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Day 4 of reboot. We did our green drink in the Champion juicer this morning. WOW. Powerful good! It was celery, kale, apple and lemon. The pulp in the blender gets old, so I think we'll go with the champion from now on.  I feel great. I feel more clear than yesterday and maybe more energetic than before reboot.