Today was a good day because.........

[FreshWest]

I'll start

EP came in to dd's school. He had not planned to see her today but I've obviously been such a nag he got the class teacher to call me up to ask if I'd like to come in for a chat. Hell yes says I! Had a long chat for about an hour, discussed what her future options may be and agreed that he needed to come back in two weeks to do an official assessment of her. Result number one.

Then I go to pick her up and she was trying school dinners for the first time today, she ate some beans and chips, (didn't like the fishfinger but hey!) and drank from a cup properly instead of using her 360cup. Result number two.

Only small things but quite big in the little world of me.......

Anyone else felt the need for a small happy dance today?

Thats great news and well done to little FreshWest
My son came home with a cool kid award so he is very proud of himself (rightly so)

DS2 came home from his cookery lesson at school with a lovely spicy sausage and pasta salad, so proud. (Although, as it has salad vegetables in it, he won't be eating much of it!)

I do wonder how much of the chopping up of cucumber and red pepper was done by him and how much by the TA.

....ds really enjoyed hydrotherapy, he wore his armbands for nearly 20 minutes (usually manages 5), he let me hold him at arm's length and laid back to look at the lights on the ceiling (he normally hates this bit), and he smiled and laugh, even when he got splashed in the face, during the singing part. The physio said he had made huge progress.

well done to your little ones

ds didnt get in any trouble today and came home with a sticker, good end to a week where hes otherwise been in trouble every day

Have had a phone call from the nurse at ds's special school (she has a particular interest in continence issues); she went to the bathroom with him today as he now has a gadget to put loo paper in and he is really trying hard to wipe his own bum!

DD's nursery teacher says she's been brilliant this week and she can really see an improvement from the holidays. And she is now weeing in the potty if we wrap her in a blankie, give her a book and ignore her totally

Ds has started trying to write. (Actually it would seem he has been able to write his own name for a while but has chosen to keep that a secret the little sod!)

Snap with the secret squirrel writing! What's that all about? DD did exactly the same thing, sat and wrote out the alphabet with her non-dominant hand, when she had barely made scribbles before, and certainly not letters!

I think ds's motto is I can do anything you want me to as long I want to do it? That's fine ds but at least keep us in the loop eh?

Am wondering if there are any secret works of art stuffed down the sofa

OK yes, me-me-me-me..... today we were in the car, me and dd2 (aged nearly 8 ?ASD) and we actually had what can definitely be described as a two-way conversation! Not the usual fragmented parallel-universe-type-scenario. The fact that we talked about my mortality, the fact that mummy will die and please can I retire so I can stop going to work left me undeterred and I am doing a happy dance!!!

Lots of happy dances today then. Well done to all our dc's and their achievements (and to us for getting them there)

DD1 came home and said 'I had my dinner early today Mum.' I asked why, and she said 'because I'm sooo slow.'

From what I can piece together, she eats too slowly at lunchtime, so doesn't get to finish dinner. The teachers arranged with the school dinner assistants that she would be served dinner before all the other children and a dinner assistant would sit with her, so that she had time to eat it all

How is it that a school with such complex children can still meet individual needs, yet a MS school can't even show concern when a child struggles?

DS got star of the week for using kind hands and only good words all week :)
He is obsessed with swear words and picking other peoples noses so this is a big achievement lol

Miracle! DS2 has decided he likes cucumber! He tried it because it was in his spicy sausage (pepperoni) salad that he had prepared at school. Oh yes, he likes spring onions too! I'm feeling a bit that I'd given up on trying him with them and that the simple psychology of him preparing it himself has worked. Yay.

This thread is brilliant... I love to share all your little (and not so little) victories

Further to the post I put up yesterday, Bee tolerated her first night off TPN reasonably well... not perfectly, but it was not a dismal failure, and only required minor interventions.

Every day, it is less cautious, and more optimistic.