Having a child with ADHD is certainly exhausting, add in the diva attitude of Amelia and it's downright overwhelming!
But as one of my recent Macaroni Kid contributors said, sometimes we need to remind ourselves of our successes, so here is my "success board" of sorts for Amelia, I'm actually using it to show me the fun times that I have with her. Let me tell you, this is one funny kid!
On Sunday we decided to take her to church; it's really one of the first times she sat through a church service so she wasn't sure what to expect. First she started off asking people if there were sno cones there, just random people that would walk by before church started.
Then as worship began she got excited hearing the music and loved clapping, when others would raise their hands in worship she would raise hers. She even sang the songs as though she knew them, she did ask if they would sing Carrie Underwood though...eek!
When they would bow their head in prayer she would ask me when they would be happy again. Oh through the eyes of a child!
That's just one morning of fun!
On Friday daycare apparently was showing pictures of bugs and showed her a tick, then explained how they get in your skin and it hurts. Thanks daycare! She was obsessed all weekend and will probably be for weeks to come. She is a very anxious child and this set her off, for now we've explained that ticks only live in the dark woods and she would never go there. Go with it people!
Let's not forget the trip to the pet store a few weeks ago...Amelia is obsessed with "thermometers" thanks to Frosty the Snowman., she calls them "odometers" though. I decided it would be an expensive way to entertain her to go see the animals at the pet store and we visited the fish. It was then that she saw an "odometer" in one of the tanks. *Sigh*, every time I tried to get her to go look at another animal she wanted to go back and look at the "odometers". So, yes, we went to the pet store to see "odometers".
The Amelia-isms keep coming, she certainly keeps me on my toes and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Except at 3am, at 3am I could trade her.
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