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Day 4 ~ Waking up with Pooh, Tigger, Eyeore and Christopher Robin

Day 4 in the household. Fabulous morning, even if it is below zero. We are definitely not morning people. Well, except for our youngest son. Seems like he is on a spring this morning. Tigger is actually a Pomeranian named Tobey. And Tobey bounces up and down at the mere sight of someone going toward the door. We call them four off’s, because he clears all four feet a good two feet off of the floor. His brother and playmate Eyeore is another Pomeranian named Brown Sugar Bear, or Sugar for short. Sugar doesn’t get excited about much except his Aunt Sheila. When aunt Sheila comes to visit, you would think that he was a puppy. Pooh is our Old English Sheep dog. Pooh’s real name is Max. Max loves the cold most of the time. He prefers to be outside in the weather. No, I shouldn’t nickname him Pooh,

Evening Day 3

Well it appears that we have two levels of behaviour. That which he exhibits during the day when it is one on one, and that which is displayed in the evenings when everyone is home. Tonight he was all about the word no. Everything we said, “no” was the response, didn’t matter if we were talking to him or not. 20 minutes of solitude under a blanket for that and other inappropriate behaviour and things were fine. The most pressing behaviour is that he doesn’t want to listen. Just a matter of changing or adapting our parenting style, if this is the only issue that we have, we are rocking. However I feel that we are still in the honeymoon phase after his return from the residential facility. Only time will tell if that is an accurate portrayal of the situation and his behaviour. On another front, the clozaril affected

Day 3 ~ Under the Weather

He must not be feeling good today. Here it is after 10am and he is still wanting to sleep. He is fighting a sinus infection, but that has been going on for a couple of days. Blood draw at 11:45 again. Then we are going on an outing to the hardware store to price out a new dryer since ours died. Having a family of seven means that our appliances get a lot of use. After lunch, school work time. 🙂 He does it without complaint. I am so impressed. We are still working on getting another meeting setup with his IEP team so that he can return to public school, but so far this seems to be working. Only time will tell, as I imagine he will get tired of seeing my face all of the time. A shout out to my friend Rob Gorski and his family over