JUST ANOTHER STORY TO SHARE

My goodness i must share with you all reading this page, what a huge difference diet has made to our children.

I made a pact to myself last week, i would cut a lot of things out of the kids diet. 5 days ago i started cutting down their suger intake because before xmas and with their last few days at school they had been eating so much junk. Cordial was replaced with water, 100% juice, milk and and if they had cordial it was just enough to colour it.

They have not been eating sugery muesli bars or biscuits, which as my mum explained that this was what i would put in their lunchbox and i have not being buying any of these since school finished, along with fresh fruit or 100% fruit snacks and sandwiches. Cordial drinks were less expensive so they would get this as something too drink.

The last few days i have seen such a awsome change in their overall behaviour, Jordan has started to calm down and sleeping better again, without the melatonin, Nicolas is not waking nearly as much, which when he did, he would cry and was a restless sleeper. Chloe has started sleeping through the night also in her own bed, without waking up and climbing into our bed.

Jordan doesnt make his errrr or rooster crowing (as we call it) noises nearly as much, so when he does its not grating on my nerves.
We have noticed his interaction with his brother and sister is 100% better, the other day for example Chloe was asleep, and i let Jordan & Nicolas outside for a swim, when i got in with them Jordan told me "to get out" at first i thought it was because i took up too much room for him to jump and play around..lol.. after i got out he then said to me "inside" and started pulling me inside. He then said "Chloe" want Chloe it dawned on me he wanted Chloe to swim with them also. After I told him she was asleep he started getting upset saying over and over Chloe.

So i took him too the couch, i will be back to finish with what i am typing as i am being screamed at to wipe Chloes bum and get myself another coffee and take my blood pressure tablets lol (thought i would share that with you all) anyway im back now so when we got to the couch Jordan proceeded to tap Chloe on the head and say "wake up Chloe" swim time. When she wouldnt wake up at first he started pulling her off the couch, yelling "swim time Chloe" over and over. After she woke up all the time hubby and i being highly amused at this i asked her if she wanted to go for a swim and being half asleep still said no. Jordan than started jumping up and down saying "yes, yes, yes! Chloe then got up and went to the door and Jordan was grabbing her shirt saying "take shirt off for you" trying to lift it over her head.

After Chloe got in, Jordan was clapping and laughing saying "Yeaaah" Nicolas then got upset explaining to us that Jordan has never asked him to go swimming before and felt unloved. I explained to Nicolas that all of you normally swim together and because this time Chloe was not swimming at the time, he wanted all 3 of you together. He then came out with but when i'm asleep he never asks me, i then explained to him that he has never been asleep when you go out too play in the pool. He then seemed to understand my explanation.

Jordan also has been wanting to play the sega game with Nicolas, and likes Nicolas to play this one game all the time, which we feel he is watching trying to work out how to play it also.

Nicolas is a very sensitive child, and we have to be very careful with what we say at times too him, he can take things literally and i mean literally, and because he has mild Aspergers, this obviously shows why he gets upset so easily. All in all he is a lovely caring kid, but at times when he gets angry he goes overboard which can also happen to the best of us.
We do walk on eggshells with him at times, because he has expressed at times he wants to kill himself and locks himself in our room and wont answer us when we go too check up on him which is sometimes every 5 minutes.

I have too put knives out of reach because i caught him oneday when his friend was over with a knife, putting it against his wrist. When i asked him why he was doing this he told me because his friend didnt want to be his friend anymore, it doesnt help either, the fact his friend suffers with ADHD also. I have organised for his Paedtrician to see him and have to wait a little while for his appointment, though for a while he has not said this to us anymore much to our relief, but we are still keeping a close eye on him.

Chloe has calmed down a lot also, they are all playing much more together without the normal fighting, Nicolas has this new game, which hubby & i cant help but laugh our heads off, when they eat mango's Nicolas gets it all over his face and hands and chases Jordan and Chloe around pretending to be the mango troll. They think this is a fantastic game so isnt it amazing how children have this wonderful sense of imagination and sense of humour?

I will be hopefully updating my blog soon with some more photos, because we do not own a digital camera as yet and my scanner isnt working, so i am waiting for poppy to email me some latest pictures to download.

I would like to thank everyone who has been reading my blog so far, sending words of encouragement and support. This blog is not only respite for me, but has proven to be very invaluable with all the information provided on their blog sites and most importantly have made some great friends who happen to be very inspiring individuals.

I am still yet to work out how to add blog links to my pages, so others reading mine will read theirs also. I am going to type the addresses to some great blog reads that i have red so far on another page, so till then take care all and hope you are having a wonderul holiday season.