something lovely or positive

[MADABOUTTHEBOY2000]

i just put on another thread how DS never usually shows his feelings but i had a really awful weekend and was talking to someone i though ds was playing upstairs so couldnt hear that im a terrible useless mum and ds came in the kitchen and held my face in his hands and said no your not your the best mum in the world i had been feeling so sad and sorry for myself but even telling you now i feel all tearful bless him whats the funniest / loveliset thing your DC's have said or done or a positive comment on how you got what your DC needed to help them ?

DD1 told me the other day " I will always love you mummy, even when your dead and buried in the ground Ill still love you"! I hope shes not pre-empting something im only 29!

Ds1 for the first time ever showed compassion to his younger brother last weekend.

Ds2 has been having severe leg pains for a couple of weeks and is being investigated by the GP. He had his worst ever attack in the evening of Sunday before last.

Ds1, who has AS, stood in the corner looking really worried but not sure what to do, while I comforted ds2. Then all of a sudden, he came over, patted ds2 on the shoulder (in a very 'British' kind of a way) and said 'its alright ds2, don't cry'.

In almost 9 years he has never shown spontaneous compassion before, as obviously he doesn't read the signs that someone is in distress.

It was made all the more amazing by the fact that on the same day, he pointed at something he wanted me to look at for the first time ever - it was only a weak little point, as if he wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do - but it was another first and hugely important to us.

Seems ds1 is having some sort of 'leap' at the moment.

On the other hand, my dd (who is nt and just 2 years old) said totally spontaneously to me last week "I love you Mummy", I was just about to go all gooey - when she looked at her feet in her new wellies and said "and I love my feet" in a really earnest tone! Still at least I came before the feet I suppose.

Dd1 said 'mummy you are better looking than all the mummies in the next catalogue' she then said 'you are the best mummy in the world'.

Dd2 said 'good night mummy' last week for the first time.

aww lovely all of them its so nice and refreshing to hear positve things too as sometimes like this weekend i was just in tears not kowing what to do about anything it was all just too much, so a hug or a certain smile and deffinately for DS to say your the best mum in world was like seeing the sun come out for just a second from behind big black clouds a ,beautiful ray's of sunshine arnt they

That's great MAD. Nice to have some positive news. You haven't recently name changed have you. Something about your posting style seems familiar! BB? Anyway, nice to have you on here.

Ds1 had to say what he was good at and what he was not good at for class assembly today.
For good, he said he was good at spelling, at writing sentences and at talking quietly). This last revelation came two minutes after he'd been shouting "BANG!" over and over.
For bad, he said he was not good at biting through things ("like the little mouse that helped the animals who didn't want to go to the zoo"), staring through things and swinging through trees with his feet.

Oh no! I don't think my DS is good at swinging through trees by his feet either! Do you think it's a SEN thing?

DS is almost four with ASD and he saves all his clever and charming deeds for the middle of the night / early hours of the morning when he snaps awake.

Yesterday he stopped poking me in the eye, pulling my hair and kicking me in order to try to make me take him downstairs to let me know that he knows about rhyming words. A cat, a hat, a rat.

When it is DH's turn this usually works and he gets to go downstairs but I am mean like that

Then he leant over my blearly self to look on the floor and said, "Fishing! A worm!"

Best of all at 5 a.m he announced for the first time, "A poo Mummy. Change DS' nappy!"

Which is a start isn't it? Trouble was he was wet through as well and the day started with having to change my sheets and fling clothes in the machine.

Didn't have the car for school pickup today so was quite concerned about the unplanned change. But ds only moaned briefly and then walked home chatting to me all the way!

Watching "Ice Age" dvd with ds1. Got to the bit where the squirrel goes to squirrel heaven.

I asked ds1 what his heaven would be like/who would be there.

His answer? (after much thought!)

"You. And a Bugatti Veyron"