We are back from hols! Overall good once we got DS sorted with the antibiotics. It was nice to get away although I do find being amongst other kids very depressing often, don’t you all? Watching them playing on the beach whilst DS just sifts sand. Listening to them excitedly chattering to parents whilst DS is of course saying nothing but often making vocalisations that mean nothing and so catch peoples attention and eye. Of course I don’t want him to be silent but I remember a post from a poster years ago on here who had a non verbal child at the time and she said he also made verbalisations that she didn’t want him to stop and her SALT said not to stop him because they were word sounds but nevertheless it depressed her as it induced the ‘lemon sucking faces’ from the general public.
also honestly, DS… just doesn’t sit! So we were in this beautiful apartment, all he wanted to do was tear around, crashing the glass door dividing the lounge and kitchen into the table by flinging it open, then he was obsessed with the microwave which he could reach. I’d try and get him to sit on the sofa but he would wrestle me off then run into the bathroom then kitchen…, Just exhausting! I suppose more like a 2 year old. Wanted to climb on a window ledge where there were floor to ceiling views of the river, that type of stuff!! I said to DH I would give anything for him just to be interested in anything for long enough to sit down for 5 mins with it. Anything at all!
school tomorrow, transition morning Wednesday. I hope they aren’t like FFS after a couple of hours with him. Dannis stories over the year has made me v nervous!!