Fun Weekend Time!!!

Beach Day Sunday

Tuesday Game... Rainy!

Driving Mr.Daisy

Fisher had a football game on Tuesday night and it was raining which made for a wet night but it was not too rainy.  It was almost a drizzle so it was not too bad to stand out there and watch them!  Nolan had a good time as well!

This weekend was nice… We did not have much to do!  Fisher stayed at Papa & BeBe’s house on Friday so Eddie and I cooked out and sat outside for a while catching up from the week!  When you are working all the time, come home to cook, bathe the kids and get them to bed not to mention homework it takes a toll!!!  We get to catch up though on the weekends!  And since it is so nice outside now it will be good to sit outside and talk and let the kids play when we get home.  It has just been so hot that we have not been able to do anything when we get home!

Mom and I went shopping on Saturday with the boys.  We got Fisher some more winter clothes.  I need to go through and see what he has because I don’t think he has that much!  We got away for so long with hand-me-downs that when we have to buy I’m not even sure what to think about it!  While we were on our way out of mom’s neighborhood we saw this “Gator” ride on that is normally a $350 buy.  We stole it for $25!  Eddie charged it and it works just fine for the both of them! 

Another win for this weekend was that State beat LSU!  Can you believe it?  It was a great game!  And an upset by many at work! 

Sunday we decided to take Lola to the beach with the kiddos!  They had a good time but I forgot the sunscreen so we had to cut the fun short… Yeah I forgot it!!!

We go back to the doctor on Thursday so I will update with how the visit went. I think once the testing is done then they sit down and meet with the parents to give them the information that they have so it might still be another week or so before we get the results!  We have a football game tonight but I will not be there due to having a sinus infection and it being at 7pm which is way past Nolan’s bedtime!  We also have an Ice Cream social on Thursday at his school.  Cannot wait to see all the fun things he has been doing!  I will update with all of that next week as well!

Another quiet weekend for us which means lots of fun family time!  You know it is never a dull weekend on Brown!!!

It's Football Season Ya'll...

Football has begun... Let's go Saints, Bulldogs & Gamecocks!  We love the homemade jerseys that Coco & Bub got them for their birthday!!!  As football is gearing up so is flag football... That's right!  Fisher is playing flag football.  His first game is Saturday so you know I will have some pictures to come soon!  We will see how he does.  As of now all he is doing is tackling Caleb and Grayson!  But them 3 together is trouble anyways!  Fisher has been doing good on his meds and produced all greens and stickers this week (Stickers mean that he did not move his car all day!!!)  If it is helping him then I am all for it.  We go back to the doctor on the 25th for evaluation so we will know a lot more then!  He says he loves school now and is doing good at drawing lately... Grandma Bertha is going to love that!  Another football filled weekend so until next week!!!

Adventures of Fisher...

I started this blog to be able to share with family and close friends the adventures with the boys! Well, we have started an adventure all right and I will be the first one to admit that it was well needed!

When Fisher was young he would throw temper tantrums to the point of no return.  He could not calm himself down from them and it was a horrible time for a mother and father to be able to control this.  We tried everything from spanking, time out, walking out of the room, taking everything away to just down right yelling!  We as parents were exhausted!  We knew he was spoiled at his old school so we figured when he did not get his way or do what he wanted to do he would throw a fit, well….

We started Kindergarten on August 9^th.  It’s supposed to be a great time in every parent’s eyes to be able to cry (because they are growing up) and to get excited when they get excited about school.  Well for the first 2 weeks we got nothing but reds.  It is very embarrassing as a parent to be known as “Fisher’s Mom” the BAD kid!  I would cry and cry to my mom and my husband and just ask “what have we done wrong”?  The teacher and I had a talk and she just said Amanda, I just don’t think he is able to control himself.  I think that he is not doing this stuff on purpose or to hurt anyone.  So all of this time that I was yelling at him and scolding him was for something he could not control!  That makes you feel like crap!!! 

Once talking with his doctor it was decided that he needed medication.  Also as a mother I’m thinking “he’s just too young and what are other people going to think”!  WELL, I am done caring what others think.  I know what is best for my son and he has done a 180 since he has started medicine almost a week ago!  No he is not the same hyper kid but he still has his personality at times and he can actually “think” about what he is doing!  He LOVES school and talks about it when he gets home now!  And to see his face just light up when he says he got a “Green” was the best in the world!  It has been a long road of reds before we got all of these greens!  I had to step back and think about what is best for my child and what I was doing to him if I was not able to help him excel!  He is a very brilliant child but just needed the attention span to keep up with studies and to sit long enough to enjoy what he was learning! 

I love my children to the moon and back and would do anything for them!  ADHD can be over diagnosed at times but when you truly need medicine for it then it makes a world of difference! My husband and I are able to talk when we get home instead of fight because we are exhausted from the day that we have had with him! We are able to talk with Fisher about how his day went and he is able to talk with us and gets excited about learning! I don’t feel like I am constantly asking him to do things over and over again because he cannot understand what I am talking about!   

We will be seeing a psychologist to get 100% diagnosis tomorrow and he will see a counselor each week to cope with it so he is not dependent on it for the rest of his life!

Some still might talk behind my back about what they think is best, that he is too young or that he really doesn’t need it!  But take a walk in my shoes over the past 3 years and you tell me what is right and wrong!