Just a little one, a little triumph for dd today. She moved up a book band. She is over the moon (because pink is my favourite colour Mummy!), I am chuffed, he teacher is chuffed.
She is 5 (end of May birthday) and has just started Y1. She has speech problems and that in turn has knocked her reading as she can not produce the sounds correctly so when she tries to use them to blend what she comes out with doesn't sound like the word. She had a tough year last year in reception, she is the youngest girl in the class (with only two boys younger then her, latest birthday is late June, a very top heavy year group), she had to have a few weeks out of school in the first term for surgery, lots of half days out for speech therapy and we had struggles with the speech therapists getting her what she needed.
Her school have been fantastic, supportive, encouraging and caring, they identified her extra needs early, had her on an IEP by her first half term and did everything in their power to both help her (and my and DH!) and make her transition to Y1 and accessing the in school therapy and support through the SEN register as easy a possible, I could really ask no more of them.
She had been of ORT stage 1 for ever it felt like, moving to floppy's phonics and songbirds in the summer tern to work on her blending, she had come by the end of reception to dislike reading because she found it so hard and had said she felt like she would never be able to do it, with the advise of the school and my own gut feeling all pressure was removed, she had the whole summer off and slowly began to rediscover the pleasure that reading can bring.
A little under a month into Y1 and with the help of a wonderful teacher she seems to be blossoming, her reading has improved along with her confidence and then today her teacher has put her on to stage 2 books 
and what I really really love is that her teacher seems to share mine and dd's excitement about the small stuff, it was her teacher that rushed over to me at home time to give me the news with a smile ear to ear quickly followed by dd with the same both eager to share the achievement, I feel like a very lucky Mummy tonight, book bands mean very little what matters is my dd's sense of achievement, the smile on her face, her confidence to sit down and tackle a book she would have run a mile from just a few weeks ago.
So yes, maybe it hasn't turned out to be quite the small moment of asked for but these 'little' things, these 'small' victories are so much more to the child who has to work so hard to get there, I know this may sound very odd but I feel privileged to have a child with some extra needs, it makes me appreciated things so much more, I shall no go away in my happy state, thank you for my moment