When it rains it pours

icky yellowing green stuff.. poor old Riley is sick, vomiting up a storm. We had to have a quick change of plans at 6:30am. Riley was going to mum and dad's and I was bringing Alec to his centre session at 12:30, now Alec has gone to mum and dad's and I am off to the doctor with Riley.

before Alec and Michael left for the bus Alec is coaching Riley on what you do when you 'choke' and how you need to do it in the bucket. Alec then turned to me and said..

'poor poor Riley, choking is awful'

'now you stay there Riley, I am going with dad and Kim is taking me to gym and mummy will look after you'

I so wanted to go to his first centre session for the year, it is good to touch base with the therapists, plus it is a new place, so while Alec knows he is going to a new place he still thinks he is going to gym (OT) so we will see how all that goes, but he got to catch a bus and a train and to see his mutti and Kim so I am hoping dad takes him to the park, it was what he was talking about as he walked out the door.

Things that make you smile

and your heart sing

Today we went to a birthday party for one of Alec's class mates. For several days proir to the event Alec was quiet adament he was not going, yet today we casually asked him and he said yes.. woo hoooooo.

So we set off and we drove by a complex where we had shopped when we lived in the area. As we drove by Alec exclaimed

WOW This place is amazing would you look at it now! just amazing

He had a great time at the party, ate a lolipop and a few mouthfulls of iceacream, one great thing though was that he tasted popcorn, it was the coloured sweetened variety, but he put it in his mouth and chewed it 4 or 5 times then took it out. He tasted abouy 8 bits, I was so proud of him, I never push anything on him but offer him 'tatses' of everything, which is usually met with a no thank you. I don't know why he put it in his mouth but I hope I can get him to keep trying things.

Amazed and thrilled

Well the school holidays so far have been amazing. Between the teachers and Helen Mirco his aide and the centre girls Alec had a thorough understanding of 'holiday' It has helped amazingly that he has also had dad home and grandma here for almost 4 weeks, it has flown by so fast, i can't believe she goes home in two days. The boys will miss her so much.

We have had no routine going at all and he has coped amazingly, I so proud of his 'go with the flow' attitude right now, I see some friction once school starts and we need to re implement a structured routine. I have a few weeks yet, I am going to enjoy and savour every day, hopefully it gets me through to the next Christmas Holidays!