For a morning that started sort of last night, this one is coming along nicely!!

Kids were a bit, um, unsettled. They all three went to bed well. Pint is trying to come off her ADHD patch, so we are slowly slicing off a bit of the patch each day. Yesterday was day one. We nipped off about 1/8 of the patch. Oh, BTW, this is with the permission of her prescriber.

They did tell me when she was diagnosed, that it wasn't probably so much that she had ADHD as that she was extremely gifted and the different hemisphere's of her brain were developing at different rates and would someday catch up with each other and that she may be able to come off her meds.

We (she and I) both think that day may be here.

Not knowing any different, until recently, when we have been exposed to numerous children on ADHD meds (there is a disproportionate ratio of ADHD kids in karate), and we have noticed that although their parents and prescribers say they are well controlled, there is a HUGE difference in behaviors between they and Pint.

Pint, to be brief, looks, acts and reacts like a normal kid. They, in a word (or two to be more precise) do NOT. I thought it was an aberration, her prescriber says probably not. He says she may be ready.

It will be a slow process, with some behavior modification in there as well.

She was a bit whiny yesterday and clingy, but other than that, normal.

She went to sleep well last night, but ALL three of them were up with nightmares at 4 am.

GRRRRRRRR


Baby and her friend were over last night, and both couches were full. There is not room in our bed for three children. I am NOT nice at 4 am.

They whined. They cried, they got hysterical. They got sent back upstairs to their room and told

THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE UP THERE, A NIGHT LIGHT AND NO REASON FOR THIS. GET OVER IT AND GO TO SLEEP.

BOOM. Meemaw flips.

They went back to sleep LOL.