It's been a while

It's been busy lately, but it's been busy.
Gabriel's had a lot of positives that happened the last week.  One of the teenagers actually said "Man, what happened to Gabriel?  He's one cool kid".  He's been making a lot of progress and actually interested in learning that letters have functions and what they are.  He's been making more drawings and letters that are intelligible. 
One bad thing is, yesterday he had a bad day at school.  The teacher said he had a very good day up until snack time, and then he smacked a kid on the face.  I don't know why, and he won't tell me.  We had a talk on why it's wrong, but I was sad since he was on such a good roll.  He seriously hasn't had one bad report since he started his medication.  His teachers have made no mention to how good he's been doing lately, but they don't know he's on medication.  We'll see if they ever catch on.
Today was Trick or Treat.  We did this in another town with a group of skaters.  Gabriel had a lot of fun and never ran around like he would have before.  It was cold, but overall, a great day.  After finishing the candy collecting, we all went in the house for some hot cocoa and the kids played.  It was again, so nice to know that he could play and I didn't have to worry like before, that he would turn to violence.  He played nicely and had not one incident of someone telling on him. 
He has his 1 month follow up with the neurologist on Tuesday.  That makes me nervous.  I'm not allowed to give him his medication that morning and I don't like that much.  But the appointment is early enough so that we can come home and give him his medicine afterwards.  We need to go though, because he is out of his prescription as of Tuesday. 
That's all for now!