I have gone MOBILE!

Actually, the blog has gone mobile.

I just added the Mobile Plug-in, which allows me to view the website, edit, and comment all on a mobile device. So any of my bloggy friends that use mobile devices, let me know if my site is not viewable in mobile format, and I can see about getting it added.

In other news, not much has been going on besides attitudes and fights. But that is all for another entry.

For this entry, I want to just write about something I have noticed Derric doing lately. …

See, Derric will pull at his finger nails until one splits, and he can pull it up. Like a partially cut off nail. He than, when flustered, will flick the loose nail next to his ear.

Example.

Kauchana is collecting boxes for her big project, a Museum of Me. She collected a good sized box and Derric kept wanting to climb in and play in it. I told him no, but he wouldn’t stop, so I snapped at him. Mostly because he hasn’t been listening all day, and partly because I was doing other things, and maneuvering around the other kids. So I snapped and told him to stop.

He backed off and started flicking his loose nail. He stayed there for a few minutes just listening to his nail flick.

He has been doing this a lot lately. I tend to cut the loose nail once I see it, and he never liked that. Sometimes he would come up to me to have me cut a nail, but mostly he keeps them loose and flicks them.

He has also started to chew really bad. He chewed a bit during the winter last year, actually chewing the zipper from his winter jacket. So his sensory therapist got him a chew tube. Once they came in, he had stopped chewing as much and wasn’t interested in the chew tubes. The one that came home with him last year got put away and forgotten. A week before school, while I was cleaning and reorganizing things, he had found it and started chewing it. It has gone to school with him pretty much everyday for the past three weeks. We have two, both were at school, until Open House, then they both came home for some reason. One got missed place, so we are back down to one, and that is getting worn out. They were supposed to be good for several months of chewing, and in one month, he has it almost ready to break.

I am also trying to figure out how to get him to do his homework and still fit in a nap. Today he got his first homework packet. Complete with what worksheet to do on what day.

I had him sit down and work on writing his spelling words. He kept whining and writing all over the place. He insisted that the letter “t” looked like a 6 with a line through it. He knows that is not how the letters are written, but he wouldn’t write them correctly. His fussing got really bad that I just stopped and put him down for a nap. He fussed long enough for me to dial a friend and have her pick up. He was out fast. And he slept long and hard. He slept a good hour and forty-five minutes. I know that if I had him nap before doing his homework, I would probably get a little more work from him, but normally, by the time he wakes up, it is supper time, then bed routine time…

He is still very much in need of his naps. I honestly wonder if he will ever get out of nap time. Xavier was the longest to nap, but by mid Kindergarten, he was out of them.. And here Derric is, napping all the way to first grade. And getting this kid to learn to spell… Oh man this will be interesting! I know he can do it, but I just don’t think I can.

Well, this has rambled long enough. Think I will just call it a day. I need supper myself and I need to get little man to bed. But first, reading time.

Hello all.

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