School is Started

School is Started

So we are now almost a month into the first year all 4 kids are in school.  David is doing awesome in headstart.  Knows his letters good, counts great and is almost ready for kindergarten already.  Andy is awesome in Kindergarten and both of them have pretty great teachers it seems.  For the older two it has been an on and off thing this year.  There have been lots of adjustments for all of us since many of the people we are used to working with are no longer with this school.
Xavier has gotten more mean and uses words to hurt and be mean on purpose now.  He is so smart, can do his multiplication and division homework well and reads great.  His computer skills are still just amazing to me.  He is still obsessed with the transformers and driving me batty with it.  He is learning minecraft more.
Martina is struggling more and I often wonder if she can make it in that school at all now.  She runs and screams she fights about everything.  I so worry about what I don't know that is going on.  I am having an amazingly difficult time getting info from the teacher this year.  I am supposed to have a meeting soon, we will see if that gets set up.  Yesterday they finally sent home a communication sheet, but it was just a loose sheet in her backpack that I felt must have been intended for daycare kids or something, and I feel there is no way it told me the truth really.  I filled out the bottom part like I was supposed to though and sent it back.  But it said she took only 3 sensory breaks the whole day and those were to listen to music????? Every time she took sensory breaks before it was to swing and run and things, she needs lots of activity, and I am not convinced she is getting it.
In other news, I am currently truly a SAHM as I have no job at all right now.  Miss the income, but kinda nice to take it slower and just deal with kids and house.
CPS is back on our butts, hopefully I can finish setting up the kids' rooms before they come back.  I have the rest of the house OK I think.
The OT for the kids is going to start coming to see me while they are in school now.  That way she can help me learn how to take better care of them and how to redirect them properly.  I hope it works, I know I need the help.
I am doing fairly well and Andray is doing good.  He wants a new job, and I would like it if it works out, but until then, this one works.
Until next time, I am hopeful things at school work out and that we manage OK with everything.

New Stuff

Well busier now, Xavier and Martina have Speech and OT each week.  Can be a challenge with the other two sometimes.  I think Andy is feeling left out a lot now too.  I wish I could make him understand better what is up with those two and why they do so much and get away with things he doesn't.  He is so smart and does so awesome in school.  I can't wait to see him in kindergarten.  He will do great.  Xavier is doing awesome academically and apparently mostly OK behaviorally in school.  However here at home he is a little terror.  He beats on Martina all the time, of course Martina loves to tease him so I am lost how to deal with that.  He also says horrible things, but I hope I am closer to getting help.  There is a positive behavior specialist coming today to observe Martina and she will help me know how to deal with her.  I hope I finally truly get some help that way.  Otherwise life is good.  We have an inspection in two days so I am panicked about that a bit.  I wish I liked to clean, or at least had a habit of it.  as is I am rushing to get it up to standards, but I WILL maintain it after that one way or another.   I have gotten to talk more to Sarah lately. That is fun.  She is an awesome little lady these days.  I miss my baby girl though sometimes.  She has grown up so much.  I will find out in a couple days if David gets to go to head start or not next year.  We may be over income limit, I hope not though.  How sad is it that I have to hope we are poor enough for my kid to go to school????  Well wish me luck off to clean more.

January 2014 Update

Well been forever since my last post again, gotta work on that.  Alot has happened.  I have not been able to go a week without any yelling yet, but I think I am doing better and actually scream less.  I continue to try, but it is harder than it sounds when the kids are super loud to not yell over them.  I will keep working on that.  Also currently kinda wandering for church right now.  Decided I did not like Xavier and Martina being so isolated and I always kinda felt isolated there myself, so trying a new one.  The one Sunday we went went pretty good.  We will see.  I think the kids may be able to do this here.  I enjoyed it mostly, never easy being in a new place with few to no people you know.  But I am handling it OK.

In other news, Andy is a super star in head start.  He loves it and is like at the head of the class for everything almost.  Can't wait to get hem into kinder next year where they will push him more than they can here.  He is an awesome little man who loves to help and who hates to see anyone unhappy, hurt or sick.

David is mad at me alot of time now, he wants to be in real school so bad, but he heads to head start next year, so until then we hang at home.  He is as advanced as Andy for the academic stuff, just hoping he is emotionally ready fr school then.  He is lots of fun and it is awesome watching all he can do for himself.

Xavier is doing great in school and spends almost half a day in regular class now.  He can read whole books and likes to do so.  He hates that he does not have a computer to play on at home now, and so do I (my computer died and Daddy does NOT like him on his).  He is doing OK with it though.

Martina is getting more difficult I swear and I am so lost with her.  She is never focused, though she can tell you what she wants and usually she gets it just to avoid the meltdown from telling her no.  That girl can be LOUD.  She is supposed to be starting both speech and occupational therapy soon.  The occupational therapist sounds awesome.  They will be coming to our house for that.  The speech therapy will be at a little farm near here, we go there for that.  Xavier should be receiving the same services as well.  We are also supposed to be getting something called Positive behavior services for Martina only.  We will see how that goes.

Anyway just wanted to do a quick update and let everyone know how everything is going.
Thanks.