Day 5..PROGRESS!!! I picked up Colton yesterday from school and asked how his day was. He said "fine..I'm hungry!". I said "we'll eat the second we walk in the house. How was class today. Have you felt better, any different?" He said "yes, in Math". I froze and said slowly "how do you feel different in Math?" He said "I can concentrate and finish my worksheets now". I was stunned! My normally quiet boy who rarely ever offers up any details of his day beyond answering "my day was fine", had just described progress! We are not getting too excited but wow! When we got home we gave him homemade popcorn with oil and salt as a snack & decaf Ice Tea, sugarless. He ate his snack, pulled out his folder, and started to work. Again, I WAS STUNNED! He has never pulled out his own schoolwork without multiple prompting. He sat, did his math homework without stopping, and looked up and said "ok mom, can you check this?". I almost didn't know what to say. Usually 1 worksheet would cause stress, confusion, and sometimes tears becuase the math facts would come to his mind, then vanish. He could not hold information in his short term memory long enougth sometimes to get it secured into his longterm memory. He was so frustrated with himself. He has been feeling dumb and defeated. These are baby steps but even these little victories are huge in our world.
Yesterday's meals
Breakfast
Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie with Rice Milk, original, and agave nectar
Scrambled Eggs, made with pam
Bacon
Apple Sauce with cod liver oil
2 vitamins
Lunch
Organic Tacos, meat and shells only
grapes
Snack
Rest of his Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie from breakfast
Organic homemade popcorn. Oil, Organic corn, salt (he LOVED this)
Dinner
GFCFYF Chicken Tenders
Sauteed Garlic Green Beans
Corn, with salt and a dash of Rice Milk
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