The Bucklein Bunch: Straight A's

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Straight A's

We had Parent/Teacher conferences at Nate's school tonight. He got his report card (they now call them progress reports. Maybe that makes the kids feel better about themselves). He got straight A's!! No surprise really. He always gets straight A's. The only things he needs to work on are not blurting out answers, paying attention during math, and not skipping over words he doesn't know when he's reading. He does so great (with Concerta). We had a reminder as to why he is on meds for ADHD. On Tuesday, I got out his pills at breakfast and told him to take them. He was doing his little "I'm too weak to open the bottle in the morning" thing. Yeah, annoying. He dropped his Concerta bottle in the syrup. So, he had to go wash it off. We again told him to take his meds but apparently, he forgot. When he came home from school, he told me he got in trouble a lot at school for talking and making noise and laughing. He told us he wasn't even doing anything. Uh-huh. Yeah, I almost believe him. NOT. After school, he kept bugging Marshall. I mean REALLY bugging him. Marshall HATES it when people get in his face. Without fail, he ALWAYS screams and hits Nate when he does that. Someday he's gonna remember that, right? Please?! Nate was also bouncing off the walls, and had to be told 5 times and threatened with being grounded from the computer for a week, before he FINALLY came to dinner. At dinner, he made wierd noises, played around, and wouldn't keep eating. ARRGH! It was then that Brian made the connection. "You didn't take your meds this morning, did you Nate?" Nate just said, "I don't know." Either you did or you didn't buddy. And the results are.....he didn't. There is no way he took Concerta and was STILL that out of control after school. I'll just say we were VERY ready to put him to bed that night. When Nate is out of control, Marshall is more out of control and more angry and violent. Not a fun day.

Today was much better! I gave him the meds when I woke him up this morning. As a reward for doing so great in school, Brian decided to take us out to eat at Golden Corrall. That was great and all but we finally realized at 5:50pm that we had completely spaced that it was Thursday and Nate had missed Scouts. DANG IT!! Thursdays are just so insane at my house. I have so much going on those days but I can't believe I forgot Scouts. I'm the Cubmaster for goodness sake!!! We better remember next week. I swear, sometimes I feel like my brain is in a fog. Could that be from lack of sleep? Marshall hasn't been sleeping well at all!!! He cried out more than 6 times last night. I'm so tired.

3 comments:

Julie said...: That's great about the straight A's. Keep it up Nate. How's scouts going?; February 7, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Rhonda said...: Great job on the grades NATE!!! woohoo!

Aprilyn, looks like you're spread thin enough it's time to get a calendar and write EVERYTHING down on it, check it 10 million times a day, and try not to beat yourself up when you still forget something (oh wait, that's me!) anyway, my calendar really does keep me in line better. But really...family time is worth missing scouts once in a while. :); February 8, 2009 at 1:23 PM
big8smiley said...: Bummer you missed scouts, but it sounds like you got a much-needed break! You can't be perfect. I'm glad Brian took you out. :); February 10, 2009 at 10:41 PM

Kids Say The Darndest Things...

For FHE tonight, we were looking at pictures of some of the things President Monson does. There was a picture of President Monson and some children at a temple dedication. Marshall asked if President Monson was DECORATING the temple. HAHAHA! He seriously makes me laugh so much.
Today while we were driving to Idaho Falls, we saw some black rainclouds, and some white ones too. We told Marshall that the black clouds have rain in them. A few minutes later, Grandma, who was in the car with us, was saying something about styrofoam. Marshall said, "Oh! I know! The black clouds are made of rain, and the white clouds are made of styrofoam. That's why you can walk right through them!
There was an Asian Lady Beetle on our kitchen windowsill today, and Marshall was really upset about it! He yelled, "OH NO! There's an OTTINGER BUG IN OUR HOUSE!!"
Marshall:"I can still write the Bucklein kind in German." (I have no idea why he said that. This is part of the fun of having a child with Autism.)
Marshall: "My other favorite word is forest." Ok..that one came out of nowhere.
Brian was trying to teach Marshall about the sounds vowels make. This time he was talking to him about why our last name sounds the way it does. We have always taught him that when 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. Well, Brian told him that in German (our last name is German), when 2 vowels go walking, the 2nd one does the talking. Marshall asked, "They can't say their L's?"
Marshall: "Dad, what's your favorite word? Love? Mom? Wanna know probably the biggest word I know? Probably the 'docious word'. (Translation: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)
What is the biggest word you know? Marshall: "Fight".
Marshall: "The thing I hate most terribly in my life is singing."
Marshall (with his arms wrapped around my neck): "Mom, I care for you." Ohhh...how sweet.
Marshall: "Dad, you are handsome.:
When we were hiking Squaw Peak, Marshall said, "HI DUDE!" to everyone he saw. Then, he decided to say, "See ya later Alligator." He thought that was funny, but then he saw a woman, so instead of saying, "See ya later Alligator", he decided to say, "See ya later Alli-Woman!"
We asked Marshall if he learned about Jesus on Easter Sunday. Nate asked if they showed him a picture of Jesus on the cross, the thing that has two boards going together like this (he made the shape of a cross). Marshall said, "It was a T that smushes him together. They (the bad guys) took his (Jesus') shoes and socks off so it would hurt more. So he was bare feet and they put nails in his feet. Isn't that ouch?" I asked what happened after that and he said, "Jesus said I"ll be alive in 3 days and he woke up and came alive and now he can never die!"
Brian was telling Marshall that Nathan is getting so big! He said, "Nathan is ten! In two more years he will be twelve and hold the Priesthood!" Marshall said, "He only needs two more grown ups to hold it!"
Marshall told me he has a lotter pirates than Nathan. A lotter? That means more than a lot.
Marshall always lays on the floor next to the bathroom door whenever Nathan goes in there. We try to get him to leave Nathan alone but he just won't. One day Nathan went into the bathroom and Marshall said, "Nathan, are you almost done?" Nathan said yes. Marshall then asked, "One more poop, then you're done?" Nathan gets so embarrassed by Marshall.
Nathan went into the bathroom to get ready for bed. Marshall knocked on the door and said, "Nathan, if you need help, I'll be right here."
Tonight when we were doing sparklers, Marshall asked if he could do another sprinkler.
Today Marshall told me that if anyone is mean to his brother he will smash them with a panyo (piano) and they will be flat like a turkey sandwich. He loves his brother!!
While we were in the car taking Brian to school, Marshall and I had the following conversation: Marshall- "I don't have any points." ME- "When will you get points?" Marshall: "In 20 years when I am nine. When I am nine I will have numbers. Then we will have to go to the gag shop to get more numbers."
We had a Family Home Evening Lesson on The Plan of Salvation. Things were going well as we showed Marshall the cut outs we had for each of the 3 Kingdoms which we will end up in after the Judgement Day. He looked it over and pointed to the Telestial World and said "I will go there." "NO," I exclaimed. That is the bad one. He said "I will go to the bad one." Then it hit me. He was picking this one because it was a star. "Are you saying that because it's a star shape and Twinkle Little Star is your favorite song," I asked? "Yup. I want to go to the star one." For the closing song he wanted to sing Twinkle Little Star that is Bad.
We were talking about thieves and how they can go to jail if they get caught. Nathan said "I won't thief." I wondered what he was talking about so I asked him. He said "Thieving is wrong, Mom." OHHHH...you meant STEALING!!
Marshall woke up with a really stuffy nose and said "My nose can't breathe."
Marshall went with me to Wal-Mart today so Brian could work on his research. I bribed my little one by telling him if he went with me, I would buy him a toy. He wanted a Thomas train so badly but I convinced him to settle with a Mickey Mouse figure that comes with a scooter. He got very frustrated with the toy because he couldn't put Mickey on the "screwdriver". It took me a while to figure out that he meant scooter. Haha...so cute.
Today Marshall went to the doctor for his 3 yr old checkup. When the nurse asked "How are you Marshall?" he said "I have to get 2 shots." As we were leaving, he saw the same nurse again and said with a grumpy look on his face "I do NOT like shots!" She laughed so hard.
Marshall: "I'm a warewolf AWOOO!!"
When Nathan was probably 5, I got him new pajamas..the kind with a "fly" in them. He stuck his hand through it and said "Look Mom! I have a new pocket!!"
Marshall and I were playing Cranium Cariboo when he suddenly stopped and said "Can I please have a slice of water." At least he was polite! :)