An emotional roller coaster!!

Thursday was parent teacher conference. The teachers in the junior high seemed to always hate their jobs and hate the kids. They were very rude to me and disrespectful to say the least. So I have become defensive. I had been working myself up all day to walk into Brian's High School and defend him and tell a few teachers just what I though of their comments. Well I was pleasantly surprised at the comments. Every teacher there truly like my son. One teacher even told me out of all the students she has ever taught she can only say she loves about 20 of them and Brian is one she loves. Comments I heard over and over again were...
Brian is...
very respectful
a delight to have in class
incredible smart
funny
sweet
genuinely nice
My heart swelled so much I just though it would burst in my chest right there. I was having to walk away from teachers to cry and compose myself before going onto the next teacher and then the phone call came in. Brian was at a friends house and supposed to meet me at the school. He forgot to leave on time and was running very late. He calls and I hear angry voices yelling into the phone. "MOM I WAS HIT BY A CAR. I AM SO MAD. THE IDIOT HIT ME!! I ALMOST FOUGHT HIM!!" I was freaking out big time and couldn't think. I was already a basket case and just couldn't focus so I called Jer and told him. When he called back he says things are ok sounds like Bri wasn't really hurt and he would be at school soon. When he showed up he was fine. The guy did run over his foot and hit him with the side mirror. He was more angry than anything. He was only sore for a couple of hours and now he thinks he is so tough he can take on a car and win!!! Great that's all I need is for my teenage son who thinks he's too tough to die as it is to believe he can take on a car!!

Brace Face No More

Today Brian got his braces off. I didn't get to go with him because I was babysitting 3 kids. So Jer took a few hours off of work to help me out. While sitting at home wondering how it was going I actually almost started to cry about it. For four years I have been taking Bri to the orthodontist once a month to have adjustments, new brackets, band changes and much much more. It has become a huge part of life. I remember in the beginning how incredibly sore he got, and the nights he woke up begging me to make it stop hurting, the days I wasn't thinking clearly and would make his favorite dinner, shredded beef burritos, on an adjustment day and him just sulking because it hurt too bad to chew. It seems I always plan that dinner on the painful days, mind you not on purpose. The end never seem to come, and then it did. His teeth are beautiful. They are perfect. He loves them. I hope this means all that pain was worth it. I found it so funny that the orthodontist gave him a bag of candy that contained, skittles, star burst, twizzlers, jaw breakers, and jolly ranchers. All the forbidden candies to a brace face. Although they didn't put gum in there. He gets to be care free for one whole week but next week starts the retainer which he will have to wear 24/7 for the first few months and then I believe it will go to just 12 hours a day after that. If anyone out there needs an orthodontist I highly recommend Dr. Poulsen and Dr. Endrizzi, they are awesome and so is there staff. Plus Brian get life time check ups for free. I don't know if all orthodontist do that or not but I thought it was nice of them. Kid #1 done, kid #2 still in braces for a while.

I am so confused

Yesterday I had to punish Brian. When I told him the changes what would take place until his grades improved he sat there for a second and then came back with. "Fair enough."
What does that mean?!?!?! I didn't punish him hard enough if he approves? That he would have countered the punishment if he felt it wasn't fair? Or that he honestly think I punish fairly? I felt defeated when he said that like I didn't punish him at all.

Scoliosis

Today was Brian's scoliosis check up. These are annual check ups he has had since he was 2. It turns out that he is not done growing, there is still a space between his growth plates, so the doctor feels like surgery is still out of the question as of now. The scoliosis is expected to get worse as he grows. He is already at almost a 50 degree curvature and this doctor does do surgery at 50. But because of Brian's uniqueness we wait a little longer. Brian has been having some back pains that I have been recording them over the year and presented to the doctor and he thinks I should keep up on monitoring it and if the pain becomes unbearable then I take him back in because we would have to worry about spinal core stuff. I asked my questions and one of them was about his hunch back and will surgery help it a lot but not eliminate it. Brian at that point educated the doctor on a moob ( translation "man boob") Because of the twisting in his spin one of his pecks is bigger the the other and he calls it his moob. The doctor actually laughed. (This is the same doctor that when he was checking Brian's reflexes in his knee last year Brian kicked the other leg he just sat there for a minute and then, with a straight face, says "Oh I get it he is being funny" and never once cracked a smile.) He might not have such a predominate moob after he is fixed. Brian is a little bummed about that. He says it's his staple. So until next year Brian is free from being cut open. But if probably can't be avoided for ever.

Brian Injured

So boys are very different then girls. And I am learning this more and more all the time. I alowed Brian to go to a friends house to hang out. I get a phone call "Hey mom can you come and get me" I don't think anything because he's been gone hours and it's very hot outside.
"Yeah sure I'm on my way"
"OK thanks but you need to know before you get here I don't want stitched, no seariously mom NO STITCHES!"
"Um how bad is it."
"well blood is squirting out"
"OK but I get to take pictures right"
"As long as I don't have to get stitches"
Come to find out they were showing off for each other to see who could jump from branch to branch in a tree using only one hand. It was deep but small. Less than an inch long. A stitch could have been used but not manditory and I got my pictures. ;-)