Crushing Realiziation

Today was a rough day in the Leatherman household. We are in the midst of trying to teach Spencer how to sleep through the night. Its so hard when he wakes up at 3 am and I know all I have to do is lay down with him and snuggle and pop a bottle into his mouth and we will both drift back into dreamland rather quickly but instead I have to get up and rock him and pat him and not give him his bottle. How cruel does that sound? But his doctor told me that he is old enough to not need to eat throughout the night and I agree but its hard and it sucks!

It other news. As you all know I wanted desperately to put the two big kids in daycare over Chistmas break. I didn't do it though and we actually had a pretty good time and I can prove it because they are both still living and breathing! During Christmas break though I had a really hard time w/ the boy. Yes, Maddie drives me nuts. That girl gets into everything! Just tonight she cut my measuring tape and she talks constantly but I think its pretty typical of a 4 year old girl. DJ on the other hand is constantly going. Sometimes I would swear that he is battery operated..he keeps going and going and going. I had serious suspiscions over Xmas break about him being ADHD but Jerry told me it was because he was cooped up and bored and my mom said the same thing so I let it go but OMG after today I am convinced and so sad that my sweed boy is afflicted with this. Looking back the signs have been there for a long time I think. I'm just not sure we knew what to look for and a lot we chalked up to him just being a kid. A lot I still do. Before we jump to medicine we are going to try Krill Oil and try to cut out Red dye 40 from our diet. ( I seriously used to think people were crazy for doing this but I'm desperate and will try anything.)

The biggest eye opener today was that after a dose of Loracet (more on that in a sec) he wasn't even phased. He was all over everything today. Climbing on my furniture. Jumping all over everything. JUMPING off my kitchen cabinets. Trying to put Spencer over the baby gates. Talking and sceaming and yelling non-stop. By the end of the day I was at the end of my rope.

Now here's why he was on Loracet...his second time to be on Loracet by the way..the first was when he knocked his tooth out on a step! Yesterday Madison and him decided (and I'm sure it was Madison's idea) to get into my skewers and he got his eye poked with one of them! (I can't tell you how many times I've told them not to play w/ the skewers because "somebody's going to get their eye poked out"...but what does mom know?) It happened around 10 am and we called his eye doctor and they told us that if it was still bothering him in a few hours to take him into the ER. He laid on me most of the day w/ his eye closed. The tv hurt his eye, the light hurt it, it was horrible! So around 3 we took him to the ER. They did this cool dye thing to his eye where they looked at it w/ a blacklight and it turned orange and he had a huge scratch right across his cornea. So they gave him antibiotic ointment and loracet for the next four days.

As much as I hate that he got hurt I have to tell you I was really looking forward to the subdued-ness the Loracet would deliver................I was VERY disappointed! I gave him tylenol at bedtime just in case the Loracet made him crazy cause this mama wasn't taking any chances!