CreepyJess's DS Hits A Greenwich Noodle Bar... :o)

[CreepyJess]

Proud Mummy moment.. we had a day out at Regents Park today (to feed the squirrels which sadly were mostly hiding) and stopped off at Greenwich at a noodle bar we have been to before. The kids stuff comes served on one of those plate-tray type things.
We wrestled 5 yr old DS into a high chair (he doesn't like sitting in his
wheelchair to eat..) and he
sat in the high chair, with his plate on the table (previously he would just
knock/throw plates on the floor) and ate it ALL with a fork!!!! He has been
doing this at home... but this is the first time he has done it in a
restaurant! I am so proud of him and told him I am going to tell EVERYONE
what a good clever boy he was! So I am !!

This is such a breakthrough. I thought we would be spoonfeeding him for ever.. and would never be able to trust him with a plate, at least not in a restaurant!!

CJ x
PS He ate so much that he got stuck in the highchair.. he really is too big but this is something of a dilemma.. do others find this? And we had to make a real spectacle of ourselves trying to get him out.. (taking off Piedro boots etc.. lol). Then a lovely chinese man breezed over and unclipped the tray! D'oh! We knew it had to come off.. but couldn't see how..! Thank God though.. was visualising the fire brigade....

BRILLIANT - it makes life so much better when the things we think we would be doing forever are no longer those we worry about.... well done to ds

Thats really good to hear, you must be very pleased

That is such wonderful news!

Creepyjess, that's lovely. I'm not surprised you're proud!

I know what you mean with the highchair thing. Ds used to eat very nicely when we were out until he got too big for the highchairs and then we were in trouble! Now he doesn't eat because he is too busy running around, hiding under the table, clambering around on the back of my chair. It's awful. The only chance of any of us eating in peace is to make him sit in the major buggy, which isn't ideal, but at least he doesn't go hungry.

That's great news!

I bet there are a few NT 5yr-olds out there who aren't able to eat nicely in a restaurant so your ds is even more of a star IMHO.

Gosh,that's a massive development CJ!!
Will make a huge difference to you all.
Well done mini CJ!!

Thank you

Do you know.. restaurants ought to have at least one SN high chair hadn't they? The way most supermarkets now aim to have trolleys for disabled people/children..

If I had the energy I would look into getting this added to guidelines for restaurants of a certain size... I USED to take on projects like this! (Sigh!)

Another thing.. I have been busy googling for one of those trays like DS used in the noodle bar.. but all I could find was this which is more or less exactly what we want.. but is from the US and is unavailable! I have surfed lots of SN sites.. but no luck.. just bowls with sticky bottoms ... but he needs the tray type (with compartments) as this allows him to (clumsily) manage a fork or spoon. Does anyone have any ideas?

CJ x

creepyjess you must be so proud

Don't they do this sort of thing in schools (or prisons!)?
Sure somene could 'liberate' one for you.
Or,,approach the chain direct?

I looked at your link but couldn't see a picture of what you are looking for. BUT, years ago when we went camping we had some plastic plates with seperate compartments. Would it be worth looking in a camping shop?

i found this

but you have to have 10 of them! lol

OR

this one on ebay

STBHL!! I have ordered 3 (BOGOF) from Ebay!! You are a complete star!! I searched Ebay and couldn't find those myself!!!

Those others are ideal as well - but I don't want ten!

You are fab.. thanks so much for you help.

Pixel I don't know why you can see the pic on my link.. it shows it when I click it and I am not regsitered of anything.

Thanks so much.. Power of MN once again! And then there's Hub2Dee looking to invent a Poo Detector..! You're all 'deffo brill' to quote our very own RTKM

SJ, glad to hear he is making up for the other thread by doing so well at the noodle bar. Great that you have found a plate like the one they had. Any ideas about how to sort out the chair issue? I know that Wagamamas generally have benches so any booster seat type thing wouldn't work. If places are supposed to have chairs and trolleys for the disabled then its news to me, I've never set eyes on a supermarket trolley for a disabled child, only those ones that clip on to wheel chairs. BTW, Fio wants to know about the MRI scan, her PC is not working.

Davros, Tesco have them - trollies for disabled children - but they usually only have one and in my experience the seat belt (a five point harness) is usually broken.. rendering singularly useless!! Well at our local tesco anyway!

I will email Fio.. was vaguely wondering where she was. DS didn't have his MRI as he had/has a cough - he has it booked for the 10th Nov now. (IF the darned cough has gone..)

CJ x

Failing miserably in my poo detector googling. Would suggest sticking with the bedwetting products, as these are likely to give correct 'alarm' / 'detection' event IMHO...

sorry...

(it's funny, I thought about this idea for newborns as we were always having a sniff to figure out if dd needed changing for a poo, LOL)