A Good Weekend

Friday was pretty good.  Christian brought home his oral book report grade.  He ended up with a B+.  I was pleased with that.  Christian had another doctors appointment to check up on his ADHD meds.  The doc ended up changing medications.  Christian's teacher said that he wasn't do as well and I was noticing the same.  We are starting on the lowest dose of this new medication and the weekend went well.  Even today was great.  We went to the grocery store after I picked him up from school.  When we got home I brought the three bags of groceries and set them on the porch so I could get Mason out of the car.  When I walked into the house the bags were in the kitchen.  Christian brought them in for me.  I went out of my way to thank him and praise him for that.  Every little bit helps me in a huge way.  Also I told Christian that he needed to feed Lilly and get ready for scouts after he was done eating.  He did both of those things without having to be reminded over and over and over and over again.  So far so good.

I found out on Friday that Ayden will get to start Pre-K at Christian's school this coming Fall.  I'm so excited about that.  The only thing that concerns me is that its a full day of school for a 4 year old.  When Christian started school in England he was 4 also however the first semester was half-day then they went to a full day for the second semester.  We'll see how Ayden does.  Christian and I talked to Ayden about starting school and he was very excited.  He was giggling and talking about making friends and his teacher.  I think he's ready.  He's going to love all the activities, recess and lunch.  It will be great AND I will have Mason at home with me all day.

Sarah (our babysitter) came over for a couple of hours on Saturday.  I didn't have any plans but I had been wanting to go to the book store alone.  I love looking for new books but its so hard to do because Ayden wants to play trains in the kids section which is all the way at the back of the store.  Then I can't look at books that I want to look for.  Anyhow, it was nice to go to the bookstore alone and spend as much time as I wanted there.  I also found a dress for the Vegas trip at Ross.  I hardly ever go there.  I think maybe I've been there a handful of times in my life but I just happened to find a really great dress on Saturday.  I spent 2 hours running around and shopping and was refreshed when I got home.

On Sunday I spent some time cleaning out my car.  It was quite a mess.  I took out all the rear seats to vacuum all the dried up french fries, raisins and cracker crumbs.  The floor in front of Ayden's seat was so stained.  I got out the carpet cleaner and used the hand tool to clean.  It worked great and the car smells so fresh now.  I didn't get to finish because Mason had had enough.  I still feel like I accomplished something though.