It was hot outside yesterday...today I am freezing! I am fully convinced that the bipolar weather is partly to blame for my being sick! The other part I'm sure has to do with the little carrier monkeys we adopted :) Germs!
My daughter and I went to see her pediatrician yesterday. He gave her a low dose of medication to start on. He said the side effects could include a sick tummy, headache, and loss of appetite. I am not happy about that, but I feel like we need to try this for my baby. She was so excited at the doctors yesterday... I couldn't even get a question in because she was asking them all..."How will this medicine help my brain? How will it make me feel?" I stood there speechless as I watched my little girl asking all of these big girl questions. I know that she wants to feel differently. I know that she wants to feel like she can focus. She told him yesterday that she feels like she can't think right and can't focus...
My mom sent me a website that talking about ADHD-I and one of the things it said was that usually kids knew they were different and that something was wrong with how they were functioning... but they couldn't fix it and since they tend to be so sensitive they internalize it and think there is something bad about them... I can see this in my daughter. When I try and hold her accountable sometimes she just weeps. Two nights ago we were working on her math homework and she was picking it up faster than I had ever seen her do it before. She was smiling and confident.. having a good time. Fast forward to last night when she couldn't add two small numbers together, and when looking at the work from the night before was in tears because she said she couldn't understand it. She sat there absolutely unable to get her brain around how to add 3+3+1... the night before she was doing 984-238... Had to carry and borrow and was doing just fine.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (the drug equivalent)? ADHD-I? Whatever it is, I am praying this medicine will help her out at school a little. It is short acting- just 6 hours, so it won't help her at home..but I pray it can help her at school so she can function well and develop a strong sense of accomplishment and pride in herself.
She is a sweetheart for sure! She has been craving affection more lately... She is very clingy and just wants to be hugging and kissing you all the time. She has always been affectionate but now is a little more so- even with her brother.. so we will see if this is a phase or what is going on.
Our son is doing well. He loves life and just laughs all the time. He is hilarious... Sometimes he doesn't know when to quit...when it is time to be serious.. but Kara is like that :) lol so how can we fault him. He likes to be silly and the center of attention. He struggles sometimes when he doesn't have our full attention.
Someone asked me an interview question recently- what is the hardest part of post-adoption? It isn't the behaviors, the bonding, the love... not for us. For us, it is the TIME. By the time we get the kids finished with their homework and then eat dinner and they have their showers- it's time to pray and for them to go to bed! The weekends they catch up on play time and family time.. But I feel like time just passes so very quickly! I just want it to slow down!
This weekend we are going to a local farm that has lots of fun fall activities for us to enjoy! It's going to be awesome! :) More updates soon! I can't wait until the adoption is final so we can start posting pictures!!!
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