Evening folks
I always seem to arrive late don't I.
Sorry, I haven't ready very much, just skimmed.
Arsenic, sorry you have had such a bad week and your dh is still being an A class pita with knobs on. Hope the wine is hitting the spot.
Mixed week here, dd and myself have been quite poorly with a humdinging coldey fluey bug (which dh has now caught just in time to languish on the sofa all weekend). This resulted in my making a total prat of myself by crying all over ds1's teacher when asking about the SISS observation report. What with being poorly and us finding out more and more about ds's problems, I've been a bit of an emotional wreck this week. 
That said, ds1 had a really good session with his EP after a couple of really bad ones and also completed his WISC IV which we are now awaiting the results of.
We had feedback from the head of the CLD Inclusion Team who observed him a couple of weeks ago and she pretty much backed up everything the EP and ourselves have said and also said they are going to offer an unconditional package of ASD training to all teachers involved with ds. So that's all looking good.
Ds himself has been typically stressed, spinny/ticcy/stimmy as is the way with this time of the year and has also been exceptionally short tempered and extremely difficult to live with. Cue lots of fights and to my shame shouty Mummy moments.
Unfortunately, his EP was also with him when he had quite a big absence. We aren't sure whether or not it was a petit mal or a shutdow/zone-out caused by sensory stuff (noise of the nativity rehearsals in the next room). The EP is going to type it up as it happened for us to take along with us to his Paed appointment in January. Not sure how I feel about this one really, validated in the sense that its the first time someone outside of our immediate family has seen it happen, but also scared about what that means.
Another sad thing is that our little old dog, who had rallied after we expected to lose her a few weeks back, has taken another turn for the worst and the vet told us tonight that we need to book THE appointment. We have been having regular appointments 10 days apart with her and she said not to book the next one iyswim. 
On a more positive note. Ds2 was the comical star of his nativity and got Star of the Week for his efforts. We were inundated with parents and teachers approaching us in the playground afterwards to tell us how good he was. So that was a lovely end to the week.