Evening - its gorn all quiet on here. Where've you all gone?
First of all Happy 5th to Birthday Lougle's dd! 
Mixed week here:
First the shock of getting ds1's assessment appointment through four months earlier than expected, that as dh just put it to his best mate "rendered Moose speechless for the first time in her life". 
Did his pre-assessment communication questionnaire - and it made me cry.
Also found out today that he has been really struggling with the work he's been doing with the EP on faces/emotions and in particular working out why someone might have particular feelings in different situations. In fact it seems his ability to understand what other people are feeling is far worse than we ever thought it was. Cue a big change of strategy for his EP half-way through his course. So that came as a bit of a blow as well.
Lots of worry about what was up with ds1 this week as well, as he was showing lots of signs of anxiety (tics etc) but we couldn't get to the bottom of why. Then he lost a front tooth that was 'a bit' wobbly until he fell of his chair at school last week and hit it on the desk, leading to it becoming 'very' wobbly. Turns out he couldn't stand the taste of blood in his mouth (never thought about that, we are veggie - so he'd never tasted blood before) and couldn't cope with the feeling of having a really wobbly tooth in his mouth. Unfortunately he is losing his teeth late and its only the third one to go, so we have a lot more of this to come. Still, at least we know what to expect next time.
Dd has been really poorly bless her, with a chesty cough and thick cold. She's 22 months and has never had a cold or cough before so has been really clingy and tearful, not to mention wakeful.
My Mum told me she is being investigated for some pretty serious health concerns and my dog, who had decided to rally after her life/death episode a couple of weeks ago has just taken another turn for the worse.
and then a couple of postives:
Received a copy of his new IEP and it was all pretty good, except the last point which is to do with emotional awareness and resilience. That was nowhere near SMART, but I mentioned it to his EP on the phone today and she agreed and is going to sort it with the school.
Dh has landed an interview for a fantastic job and by all accounts the company are very interested in him, so we are keeping everything crossed for that.
Oh and have finally received all the dc's Christmas presents (did all my Christmas shopping online) have finished making all my Christmas cards and have everything I need to start making up the hampers for everyone else. So all I have to do now is 22 mini christmas cakes, 22 muffin mixes, 12 jars of chutney, about 50 thousand chocolate truffles and about a million pieces of shortbread to make then.