Defiance

Gabe has been a beast of defiance lately.  He's determined to do what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, even if he's not suppossed to do it.  He's been grounded from video games and tv lately, so he keeps convincing Donna to hide with him and they'll play video games in secret.  He's driving me nuts!  He's such a sweet kid when he isn't trying to defy us.  Why?  I'm dreading his teenage years.

Also, I think we really need to get him officially tested for dyslexia and ADD this summer.  He can't focus on any one task for more than a couple of minutes (unless it's a bunch of short TV programs or video games, and I think he can focus on those because they are mostly changing and he doesn't need to follow the same idea/story for too long) and he has extreme difficulty in writing letters and numbers in order.  I think once we have an official diagnosis, we han better treat him, and maybe calming down the ADD will help his behavioral issues, too.

I fixed grandma's end table that broke a couple of weeks ago.  It wasn't on my list from the other day (though it should have been, but I never remembered to write it down, so it was forgotten until I walked into the toy room looking for something else.

We planted the strawberries and jalapenos in planters on the deck.  We still need to clean up dog crap and other stuff in the garden area before planting stuff there (I also need to do the sprinkler stuff soon for that task too).  I also have to add mowing the grass starting this coming weekend to my list of stuff I need to do.

I got a large board to put at the bottom of the stairs outside to keep the dogs out in the yard.  Hopefully it'll help them get accimated to the invisible fence, etc.

That's about all I have for public consumption this blog.  Thanks for reading.