Update on the kids

I am going to start with Noah.  Noah has been upset with Ashleigh.  Noah does not like it when Ashleigh is in his room.  Now don't say it is a normal brother-sister thing because this is not.  Ashleigh destroys his room.  She does it to get him into trouble.  Making us think he did it, but we know he did not.  When I say destroys his room, I mean destroys.  Toys everywhere. Papers everywhere.  Food in the room, which the kids know is not allowed.  We have a rule that food is only allowed on the main floor of the house & to be eaten in the dining room only.  Noah does not take food into his room.  This is an Ashleigh thing.  It is hard to explain.  I have a few other blog posts on Ashleigh if you are confuse for you to read.  Ashleigh takes & hide food.  We have learned that Ashleigh has been doing this in Noah's room to get him into trouble.  It is more than a brother-sister relationship here.  Ashleigh is upset that her brother can do more things than she can.  He can run, jump, walk normal.  She can not.  Yes, there are moments where they play nicely, but there are these moments we have to watch for.  Our solution: to put a lock on Noah's door.  We need to keep Ashleigh out of Noah's room.  Noah need to take his room back.  We need to have his room not to be a battlefield.  It needs to be a calm room to him.  We are getting a lock on Friday, which is pay day for Shawn, or Saturday.  Once the lock is on, we will lock his door.  Not sure yet how we will do this.  We already lock Shawn & my room plus the basement door.  I will post the other links below.

Now about Ethan, we have the same issue about Ethan's room as Noah's room with Ash.  He is going to be 4 soon.  I forgot to add that Ashleigh bring her stuff up to both the boys' room.  The boys' rooms are a floor up.  It seems like when Ash's room is trashed, she comes to trash theirs, but I am not sure.  

Onto Ashleigh.  Ashleigh has been good & bad lately.  She destroyed her brothers rooms like I described above.  She has not wanted to clean her room, which is a typical kid thing, but it could be due to her depression.  I have been seeing her sleep more on the weekends & after school.  Ash has started the Family Based with the new provider in December.  Ash is still stealing food, lying, and hitting her brothers.  Tonight Ash & I went out shopping for some clothes for her.  She has gone through a growth spurt.  I got her 2 pairs of jeans, 3 sweatshirts, 4 shirts, 1 skirt, &1 hat.  We brought dinner home for us.  We had a lot of fun with me.  Ash used to say "That's too girly!" when she was younger.  Ash did tell me what she did & did not like.

Have a good night!

Melissa

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