1 week and counting

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Registered: 03-27-2003
1 week and counting
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 12:37am

We will be leaving El Paso for Kentucky here in exactly one week. We've had our countdown chain for dad coming home (thursday) and for the day we move for a week now. Victor seems to be doing well with the move because he's excited to get back to his best friend from Kindergarten but I am kinda dreading it. K (Vic's best friend) is diagnosed OCD and ODD as well as ADHD. When the boys play together, I'm sure they'll have a blast, we'll just have to keep our eyes on those triggers and make sure none get tripped.

I had a time and a half getting Victor to clean his room. Bryanna really resents this because she gets her room cleaned up in an hour, then has to sit at Victor's door to help him clean his room. I know it's a lot to put on a 9 year olds shoulder's to ask her to help her brother by guiding him on what to pick up but when I'm trying to clean the entire rest of the house and get it squared away, I need help with that part. Bry had a friend that moved last Nov, who anytime the kids were cleaning their rooms, she'd come over and show Victor how to clean his room. Tell him "Okay, those jeans get hung up in the closet like this" and then leave him to it. Boy oh boy Bry got ticked off and eventually just cleaned Vic's room for him. LOL. Once we get moved, we'll weed through the messes and see what can stay and what goes.

I don't think Vic has realized yet that everything is going on. Even with our countdowns, he still manages to get surprised on the day the event happens and we have a meltdown. The last day of school ( yes, yet another countdown chain) Vic and his friend from class were outside playing. Now this other friend, J, is also diagnosed on the spectrum. Well, Victor squirted J with a water gun ( they were both playing with water guns) and J got upset and threw Victor's water gun across the rocks in the front yard. This set Vic into a meltdown and that set J into a meltdown. Vic came in, went to his room (Just exactly what we discuss when he's upset) and played his boombox. J stood at the window of Vic's room crying and screaming "I'm sorry" til I had to go outside and tell him that he needed to go home now because Victor was in for the rest of the day. I assured J that we knew he didn't mean to break the water gun but it was a new toy for Vic so he needed some quiet time to get adjusted to the fact it was gone. Well, the next day, Vic asked to be grounded for the rest of the time we were here because he didn't want to see J. Bless his heart, I know he's going to feel horrible for not spending his last few days with his friend but he doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Okay, case in point, that whole tantrum was because he was upset about the last day of school and leaving Ms. A (the nice teacher).

Here's hoping the next few weeks so smooth.

Alexis