Sorry for the redundancy to all of my FB friends, but for those of you who don't already know, Jaxon has insomnia on a serious level. He wakes up half a dozen times through the night for no reason other than to play. He's wide awake an hour after going to bed, and almost on the hour through the night. We find him downstairs playing with his trains at 1...2...3am. He asks me to turn on movies for him and asks me to come watch him play. Seriously child, it's the middle of the night.
It's getting to the point that it's worse than having a newborn. I'm sorry to complain, but sleep deprivation does some serious things with your head, mind, spirit, and attitude.
We were at the doctor this morning for Cohen's 2 year well child visit (which went great! He's in the 50th% for height and 40th% for weight), and when she casually asked me how Jaxon was doing, tears started welling up in my eyes. This Mama is tired.
Before I could even finish, she interrupted me and told me "I want you to cut out red dye #40 from his diet." Um, what? No offense to anyone who already does this, but I really have always assumed people that believe that food coloring affects us was a little over the top. But after spending the last 2 hours researching it, reading articles, and gathering info from friends... I am ready to make the leap. I'm not going hardcore and freak out if someone gives him candy or food with it in it, but if I can make small changes at home to help him, I will.
So many of the articles also linked bad/aggressive behavior in kids to food dyes as well. I hope this will also help deter some of the negative behavior we've seen from him as well. He is very aggressive when he's upset, so it makes sense to me.
And now, the hard part, making the change. Have I ever mentioned how horrible I am with change?
Pray for me as we go through this transition, I feel overwhelmed thinking about it all and cling to this scripture:
If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father.
He loves to help.
James 1:5a (The Message)
And after reading Kristal's post from today, I just want to go wake up my babies, sit on the floor, and soak them in. The days of our babies needing us are flying by, quicker than we could have ever dreamed.
Earlier in the day I told my Sister that I needed to blog but had nothing to write about. She told me, just post a picture of your tree! So this one's for you, Kallie Sue.
These are their new ornaments the boys picked out this year... I love this Christmas tradition so much.
On the plus side of my day, my Mom comes tomorrow night. You know how Mom's have that magical touch to make everything just a little bit better.
