FINALLY.....some answers!!!

Okay, so this is my wildly creative, super-social, highly energetic, almost 12 year old.
This is the child who at 12 months old was handing me colored nesting cups with numbers embossed on them as I asked for a certain NUMBER!!
We started homeschooling the week after she turned 5, and we loved it. We started her in piano lessons the following fall, and the next spring she took all-state in the Texas Music Educators Spring Festival. She had ice flowing through her veins....she was unphased on stage.
This child has NEVER in her life complained of being tired or asked to go to bed. In fact, she can survive happily on as little sleep as you ask her, and gets up ready to go and excited to see what's in store for the day.

She will take anything out of the trash and make
it into something interesting (to her)!! I remember
one particular time she went through the neighbors
trash and pulled the front grill off a round
oscillating fan and tied ribbon to it
so she could hang it from the ceiling

and store her stuffed animals in it.

She's always thinking outside the box.
She's a mess! Literally. She keeps EVERYTHING.
When I told her once, that we were going
to bag up all her stuffed
animals and that she was allowed to
keep 4 animals on her bed, she told me,
"Don't throw anything away that has a face,
Mom!"

She loves to give gifts!!! She feels it is a great social "faux pas" to go to anyone's house
without a gift of some kind....even if it's not for their birthday.
She saw how much her baby sister loves satiny fabric of any kind and how it brings her great comfort. So, it was her idea to design and sew this blanket for her sister's 1st birthday as her gift.

But this last year, we STRUGGLED with school. It started getting more frustrating around the 3rd grade. By then, she was bored with the curriculum we were using and I noticed that it was taking her longer and longer to complete her work. She could do the work; it wasn't a matter of not understanding what was expected of her. I would just find her daydreaming or under the table or doing anything BUT her schoolwork. I thought it was a discipline issue. So we tried a myriad of things to correct her behavior with absolutely no success. Then, her piano teacher started asking me if she was tired or something because she just wasn't focusing during her lessons, and wouldn't seem to be listening to her. I struggled keeping her seated during practice time, and just didn't have time to sit with her for ANOTHER 30 minutes when I already had 4 or 5 other children under her who needed my attention also. So we eventually gave up the piano lessons.
As she got older, I also started noticing that she rarely EVER finished something that we asked of her unless we went back and checked on her. I figured out that if I asked her to go clean her room, brush her teeth, and get dressed, she wouldn't even make it to her room before something or someone caught her attention. She was never thorough in any chore she was expected to do and always has to go back over it to get it done correctly.

So this year when we added our 6 year old to the
school mix, things just got completely crazy!!
Not only was it difficult to keep Lexi focused
and organized, but the her brother was a terrible
disruption. He did NOT want to do anything
cooperatively, so his noise completely distracted
her. With all this plus, adding in Ashlyn's diabetic
issues, Lexi was just falling farther and
farther behind.

So I started to talking to other homeschooling mom's and doing some research on the internet.
I started seeing a ton of things that looked just like my girl..."chatty cathy type", disorganized, unable to stay on task, leaving tasks unfinished. I wouldn't really classify her as hyperactive, but definitely had an attention struggle.
I heard about a place that would test her in lots of different areas and that might be able to confirm my suspicions. So I filled out a gazillion pieces of paper, made a thousand phone calls, and took her to the Child Study Center today. IT WAS SO HELPFUL!! I've praying that the Lord would lead me to the right people who could guide me in how to help her effectively, and He has been answering my prayer.
Today we learned that she is classified as "Inattentive ADHD" which is apparently the new classification used in place of ADD. He (the D.O. who examined her) said he thought she might have a borderline learning disability in Math, as well as dysgraphia!!! EUREKA!!!
I was pretty sure I was dealing with an ADD issue, but it was SO helpful that he recognized an issue with her ability to write. I'm wondering if she didn't test as well in her Math as her Verbal and Non-Verbal skills because she has fallen so far behind in Math, so I'm not completely panicked about that.

So what does all that mean? Well, I'm not entirely sure.
I was given a bunch of information to read.

Now I need to get some answers about what is at the bottom of some issues we've been
struggling with in regards to our son. Once I've got some direction, I can formulate a plan.
But that's for another post.
I've got to go wrap my brain around all of this.