This evenings entertainment after our anchovy pizza dinner (double yuck from me!) was the movie Ben 10 Alien Force Alien Swarm. It premiered last week while we were away and instead of missing dinner as we almost did 2 years ago the first time they did this, we just taped it at home. It is a real action film madde from the cartoon and it is awesome! It is fun, since I watch my sons shows with him, to see the way they adapted the cartoon into real life and used special effects to bring to life the stuff we have been following in cartoon form. Yeah I know, get a life you silly 50 year old!
Earlier my son played at Game Stop and Blockbuster, they have vid games for the kids to play and I will not allow games that require a TV hook-up. We have a weekly deal that if he behaves in school this is what he can earn and yes, these deals are necessary to get him to try harder to behave. What’s funny is when I started to prepare him for the end of the vacation he reminded me that he had missed his Friday and I owed him a visit when we returned from the Bahamas. He’s always working the angle!
Wednesday we went for a follow-up to the allergist/astham doctor. I thought we were schedule to take blood but I misunderstood, it is hard to understand all the doctors info since they see so many patients and tend to rush you. I peppered him with left over questions this visit and then we were sent to a separate spot for the blood withdrawal.. I was dreading this as last year there was a lot of screaming when his pediatric office took the blood for allergy testing. This time he barely flinched and he eraned the BIG Bakugan transformer toy I was saving for just this occasion. He watched as 3 vials of blood were taken from him and I was absolutely shocked at his bravery vs. last year. I have to note that this nurse was much more efficient at finding his little vein.
Tuesday was back to public school and then Hebrew school in the afternoon and he seemed to adjust back very well. I was told I need to communicate with my son about events that are coming up to help him to adjust, that’s why I started prepping him that the vacation was ending and we had all earned it and would have others as long as we earned them again. This is a parenting tool that works for our family.
For me the 2 hours of Hebrew school is my reaidng time, I have 10 more Dr. Who books to get through!
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