Nodding

This morning Rachel said "I'm not going. Is too, I'm not going. Not going. I'm not going...." It wasn't said in an angry voice at all, just a normal conversational tone, but she kept it up for quite awhile. She got dressed all on her own with no problems or pauses, which was nice. It was a fairly uneventful morning.

Tuesday after everyone left for school, I drove a couple of hours to visit my Mom, and stayed overnight. I didn't come back until about 5:00 yesterday. So far as I know, everything was fine while I was gone. It's hard for me to leave Rachel, but it's good for us. We spend so much time together, it's probably healthy to be apart for a bit. Yesterday when I got home, she was sitting in her room with lots of books. She smiled at me, but didn't really say much. It would be nice if she would give an indication that she missed me, but I guess I'll take the smile. She wasn't interested in talking to me (or listening to me for that matter), so I just let her hang out in her room.

Her brother had an orchestra concert last night, so we took her. She seemed to enjoy it. She smiled through most of it and actually laughed a little bit at one point. She was kind of nodding her head a little, possibly to the music? It looked a little bit like someone who is nodding their head, falling asleep while sitting up, but it fell back instead of forward. She quit doing it when the music quit, so maybe it was just a response to the music, but I don't know. Her left leg and hand were both twitching the whole time, so maybe it was a muscle spasm. Another unknown. We have lots of those. She was quite happy through the whole evening, but rather quiet. I sent her upstairs to get ready for bed, but when I came up she was just sitting on her bed, looking at books. I don't know if she forgot what she was doing or if she decided she didn't want to go to bed yet. I had to keep reminding her to do the next step, but she did them as soon as she was reminded, and went to bed fairly happily.