Where do I start??
If you were questioning my red dye 40 theory with h, you need to read this.
I am seriously onto something here OR there are many coenky dinks around....
This ALL happened last week into this week.
MONDAY (1st day of school)
If you remember from my previous blog, h had a great day. His teacher was awesome and she prayed for him.
Monday AFTER SCHOOL, a gourmet cupcake shop in town was giving away a FREE cupcake to all students/teachers from like 4-7. (This place's cupcakes are like $42/dozen!)
Well, not one to pass anything for free up, G loaded the kids into the van and took them. Before they left I said "Make sure h either orders Vanilla OR White Wedding Cake!"
h ordered Maple Bacon. Maple Bacon is brown... isn't red a color in brown?
Monday's dinner was Grilled steak, barracho beans and green beans.
TUESDAY
Vanilla Krave cereal from HEB for breakfast. NO FOOD DYES on the label. h was being a total shit in the morning. He wasn't following directions and I couldn't keep him focused on dressing, breakfast & taking his medications.
h had a very bad morning at school. He apparently "kicked" another student. He said he didn't, the teacher asked him to apologize (for touching) and he refused! This led to an interruption into class time and BIC had to be called. h returned to the class in the afternoon and had a great rest of the day. When I asked h what happened he owned up! This is HUGE!! He never takes responsibility for his actions.
Tuesday night dinner was fish sticks and goldfish mac & cheese (no food dyes!).
WEDNESDAY
h didn't give me any problems waking up. He dressed on his own, took his medicine and waited patiently for his waffles to be finished.
He acted perfectly at school and had an awesome day. Since he was suppose to see his therapist, but didn't because of a scheduling error, we ran a few errands just the 2 of us.
He went to 2 different stores with me and acted like a typical 8 year old boy. A little bored but kept on trucking.
Wednesday night dinner was something called "Crazy Reed". It is a chicken/spinach/noodle dish that I copied from Cook Children's hospital.
THURSDAY
h didn't give me any problems waking up. He dressed on his own, took his medicine and waited patiently for his egg in the hole to be finished.
He acted perfectly at school and had an awesome day. I picked him up early so he could see his psychiatrist. He volunteered to take the stairs and waited very patiently by playing his Kindlefire.
Thursday night dinner was Rotisserie chicken (made from my rotisserie) and rainbow chard.
FRIDAY
Again, h didn't give me any problems at all. He handled his routine perfectly. However, since I woke up late I said he could have cereal for breakfast. The choices were Fruity Pebbles, Froot Loops and Chocolate Krave (Kellogg's brand). I told him he could have the Krave. I didn't even bother to look at the list because the HEB brand had no Red 40 in it.
Friday was a shit day for h. I am not sure what all happened but he ended up throwing his Expensive Planetbox lunch box across the stage in the cafeteria. Yeah, he did that AFTER he hit a boy with it. (h said the boy called him fat over and over again so he had to teach him a lesson.) 3 staff members later and he was back in the BIC room. Not only did he go to that room, he has to report there on Tuesday! When he got home he was foul tempered and unbearable to be around. I felt stupid because I couldn't figure out what the hell happened. Just for shits & giggles, I looked at the Krave box. Want to guess an ingredient? RED 40! h had 2 bowls of that cereal for breakfast!
Friday dinner was sweet potato greens with chicken.
SATURDAY
h had a pretty good, typical 8 year old is bored day..
SUNDAY
h had a pretty good, typical 8 year old is bored day.
MONDAY
NO SCHOOL.
Same as the weekend.
Daddy took the kids to the pool and also packed a "snack bag" while I was out shopping for fresh fruit.
Part of the snacks, were some Mickey Mouse shaped suckers that my friend bought the kids at Disneyland. I honestly forgot to give them to the kids. Then I started this whole "no red dye" experiment and decided not to let the kids have them for a while.
G let the kids have them. He was even so proud when he said he wouldn't let h have the red one.
Guess what color h did have? ORANGE! I'm not a college honor student like h's dad but it seems I remember RED & yellow make up orange?? WTF G!!!!
Dinner consisted of grilled steak, grilled corn on the cob and goldfish mac & cheese (no dyes). h pretty much refused to eat and complained the entire time!
Monday night sucked. h was refusing to take a shower and he didn't want to go to bed. He even tried sneaking his Kindlefire in bed with him.
TUESDAY (today!)
h was a fucking nightmare this morning. He refused to wake up and get ready. I heated up English muffins for breakfast while I prepared the kids' lunches.
Battle after freaking battle.
Before we walked to school G told h he was grounded from his Kindlefire.
While walking to school h was practically growling he was in such a foul mood.
I told h that if he got out of BIC early in the day then I would give him his Kindlefire afterschool.
While I waited for him this afternoon I was scared for him.
He walked to the van SMILING! He told me he was able to leave the BIC room before morning announcements were made! HOORAY!!
I let him grab his Kindlefire out of the house on our way to the triplets school. He unlocked the front door, grabbed his Kindlefire, locked the front door, grabbed a package from the UPS man & thanked the UPS man, got in the van and told me Thank You!
h started piano lessons today and had a great first lesson. His piano teacher said he was the best first timer she has ever had! He was more concerned with practicing then he was with eating dinner.
h went to bed with little to no problems.
Dinner tonight was homemade stroganoff (recipe floating around Facebook.)
The food dye has got to be the answer.
I will be more vigilant in ridding our house of this shit.
DIE RED 40!!
Guess what else???
h's teacher?
SHE CALLED MY HOUSE TONIGHT AT 8:30 PM TO TELL US WHAT A FABULOUS DAY h HAD!!
HOW MANY TEACHERS DO THAT??
I feel like a very blessed woman tonight!
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