I am heading to the library this morning to search some books.

As far as attention and stuff, I would say he is pretty "average" there. It is just some other things that seem to get me. He was up until 11 pm last night. He had no nap yesterday, was outside playing all day, washed cars, ran with the dog, played in the sprinkler with his brother.....still rattling at 11 pm. But is wasn't a "hey, I want to play" it was a "I can't get undone" kind of wake. This happens often.

As far as food, he eats better than DS7 in the veggie/fruit/try new stuff dept. We don't do caffeine, for the kids anyway! Eat yogurt, healthy cereals and such. Or so I thought. When I went through the pantry last night I was in shock. Everything from our Special K cereal to the toothpaste has something in it.

So.....today I am doing research, at home and at the library.

We are starting off with scrambled eggs or oatmeal for breakfast and whatever we don't choose for breakfast I will make for lunch. Dinner with be fresh veggies and some kind of meat. I am gonna go back to basics for a couple of days and monitor a change.

As far as doctors, yes, I have spoken with some at different times in the past year. One wanted to put him on meds for sleep, another said he just had a lot of energy........we declined the meds....

I know he is an active little boy but when I think back over the 4 1/2 yrs of his life there are things that may be signs towards this intolorence of chemicals/additives so I would like to give this a shot.

Thanks for any and all advice!

I knew I could come here and get it from trusted friends!

Jana