you know you have a child with sn

[2shoes]

because you use syringes instead of water pistols

when carrot cake and tomato ketchup count as vegetables.

when you are still waiting for the "why" phase.....

When your DD takes a bow every time you praise her.

When you have to talk her step by step through successfully pulling up trousers after a wee.

When you stand on a stool to shave him, and he's lined up the playmobil in order of rank along the edge of the bath.

When you hear her sister screaming "stop licking my socks!"

When your DD runs into the garden screaming because there was a hand on the TV.

when your dd is screaming in alarm when you take them anywhere near the sea.( Though fiddling with your straps on buggy and throwing sand randomly for 2 hours constitutes a brilliant day)

asdx2. PMSL. Seriously I am at work and have tears in my eyes!!

When your friends who's a teacher and moved to the states, comes to stay and says it's the first time she's heard a 5 year old use the words assume, actually and appreciate in the correct context in one conversation!!

When said 5 year old refuses to go into Matalan as he is convinced they do not sell toys (we were shopping for a birthday present) and completely loses the power of speech only managing to sniffle and stamp his feet and shout no repeatedly.

When you spend the next 30 minutes jubilantly praising the same 5 year for saying "I apologise mummy you were right".

I still can't believe he admitted he was wrong!

BR

When you use makaton to reinforce verbal language to random children you meet.

When every time you go out the door, you automatically say "DON'T throw anything over the fence" !!!

When you turn up to pick your DC up from school, and he runs up and says "fuck" in your face in front of all the other mums

When you have to ask at least 3 times "What would you like for dinner?" before you get a reply.

when they ignore a duchess:O

when you wonder wtf? when your non-verbal dc starts speaking in spanish! - then you realise that go-diego-go/dora the exploria is on again for the 100th time that day!

Your NT 2 year old says "scrummy biscuit" but your 5 year old says "munchin' crunchin' heaven". DS says "cuddle", DD "few hugs and kisses". DS says "hungry", DD "then he ate all the biscuits, and all the cake, until there was nothing left to eat on the table" (I could go on...).
Also, when your 5-year-old runs up to unsuspecting (French!!) children, fixes them with that unwavering demon stare and shouts "No, you don't need to have Madeleine's dress!" then runs away giggling. Gets them every time!
Or when, like any 5 year old, she wants to dress up as a princess, but she does it by wearing about 5 dresses, one on top of the other, then wonders why she can barely move!