you know you have a child with SN when......(revisited)

[intothewest]

when you think 6.30 am is a lie in

when you are packing to go away for the weekend and there's no room for your stuff-the car's full of things you are terrified to leave behind in case dc wants a particular thing (dvd,teddy,toy,washing up sponge......)

When they get undressed and all you can hear is the sound of velcro (well at least i think that's what the sound is!
You still have to carry around wipes and pullups/nappy sacks when your DS is 8
When you still puree food when your DS is 3.7 - and have 'blown out' so many hand blenders.

when you have random strips of velcro and assorted pictures stuck up over your house.

and you dread the sight of a slightly overcoked fishfinger.
(Shortly followed by wails of It's too crunchy, there are black bits, bleurgh, wah, wah, wah.......)

When it takes your five year old longer than you 1.5 year old to eat dinner.

When you spend your evenings laminating and playing with sticky backed velcro.

When your friends are mainly online.

When your handbag is like Aladdins cave!

When you've had a dog for years. And one of your kids still hasn't noticed.

R3d - that's very funny Is it a big dog?

super- I went out without ds and found I had a pull up and wet wipes in my bag

It's a short dog. And she's not good at seeing things that are outside of her immediate field of view. I'm not sure what she thinks the dog is - possibly some sort of annoying furry pouffe thing that keeps tripping her up?

When you are still buying industrial quantities of wet wipes for your teenager.

When you say to someone that the first morning of half term went without major incident because DS only scratched you and pulled your hair for two hours, but dealt no full body blows

r3d that made me spit my coffee over my keyboard lol..its the toast thing i mentioned b4 brown toast is a BIG no no if things look cooked im in trouble you dont know (unless your one of us lol) how hard it is to cook chicken right through and make it not brown ,,, were so skilled arnt we haha

when you are trying to keep track of so many different things you lose the ability to string a coherent sentence together. Am having trouble getting my brain in gear today

When you have a plan A. Then plan B. Then plan C. Then plan D...

Never having a chat with another adult when with the kiddie. Child always wants to be off. The look of puzzlement on their faces when you get dragged away mid converation.

that 'conversation' (I was interrupted...)

You sit on the floor in the middle of a shop with your child, while waiting for the rest of the family, because there is no way on earth he is going to walk back to find out where they've got to when the exit is in sight.

This is only possible in a shop he's visited the same time each week for his whole life.

You're sick of tripping over the giant buggy needed to make any other shopping trips or other journeys possible.

The Aquadraw mat this almost 5 year old got for Christmas over a year ago has finally been taken out of its packet. He's scribbled on it with one of the pens in each hand for all of 3 seconds and is now walking all over it because the sound that makes is far more interesting.

When your buggy never gets folded because you can't remember how.

when Saturday is tesco day, even if it's snowing.

When you think walking at 18 months is quite early

When the portage worker is on your list of people to phone when your baby arrives.

when you have the number for childrens outpatients at the hospital stored in your phone

When your house is always lit up like a Christmas tree because one of your children is obsessed with switches and you dread the electricity bill.

(Our giant buggy has to live in the boot of the car because there literally is nowhere in the house to put it that I won't keep tripping over it or have to move it out of the way all the time.)

When you'll go and buy another copy of a DVD because you left yours at home and you are away because it has to be watched on loop at least twice a day (even though ds recites it word for word the rest of the time he's not watching it).

r3d PMSL .

And you send in the form saying ds can go to the farm with the rest of his class but he eats poo if given half a chance and will try and lick the animals. The teacher looked at me like I was talking about an alien or something and couldn't believe the sentances I was calmly saying like it was normal!

When your ds asks for 'a refreshment' when it's snack time.

newname

and when you ask to see the copy of the risk assessment you know they haven't done before the trip because on the last one, a farm trip, they failed to take into account the field of long grass that the support worker had to push a buggy over and the lack of changing facilites resulting in support worker making official complaint

ellie, the list of support workers and therapists I had to ring when I had ds2 was longer than my list of friends

When your DS at age 6 knew the birthday of every child in his class but couldn't recognise any of their faces.

You find secret stashes of wet pants all round the house.

You never go anywhere without an escape plan.

Dry-Nites are known as WetMornings.

:o at Sumum.

My ds asks if he can have "a refreshing cup of tea". :o

LOL at "Wet Mornings" we've just started using them and they're no better than normal nappies.

So the five a.m second pair of pyjamas are still being put out ready for when DS goes to bed.

When you son can recite a litany of information/facts in minute detail (and he's right). And he tells you that the presenter of the science program he's watching is "really very engaging" but....

He can't get dressed in the correct order without constant prompting!