Archive for January, 2004

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

All good things.. blah blah…
Well, didn’t blog for a few days - sorry bout that. Thursday pm we had a psychologist assess Moo and come round for a chat. To my intense relief, she felt that Moo was displaying classic signs of a bright child dealing with the problems of Aspergers/high functioning autism. It sounds [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

A Poem from my Childhood
My nana used to tell me this - no idea of the author though.
My dear little fifty four
I studied my tables over and overand backwards and forwards toobut I couldn’t remember six times nineand I didn’t know what to do.
My sister said not to bother my headand to play with my [...]

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

5*2 is 10!!!!!!!!
The above having been todays remarkable fact! We spotted between us that we could use “5 fingers * 2 hands is 10 fingers” as a handy place to count on or back from in the 2 times table - smart cookies we are you know! (ROFL!)
Anyway, as is probably obvious, we did tables. [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

The Portico at the Puddle
What a lovely day we had! The Portico came up for a play day and a whale of a time was had. We hardly saw the kids, apart from Scruff who developed a MAJOR attachment and hardly left A’s arms all day!

A good deal of dressing up went on, pom pom [...]

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Few pictures

These are some of our first efforts with the kaleidoscope thing - and we have got better at it since!
These are the fish collages - Fran’s is the top one and Scruff and i did the bottom one together.
I’ve also slightly improved the nemo frieze below.
Must say …. Fran did me a dance today, [...]

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Blast-off!!!!!
Today we had one of those really amazing HE moments that just come out of the blue and make you think “yep - this works!” Fran came downstairs this morning and counted to 100 in 10’s - apparently she had been practising! Then i did some gamey type questions - like can you tell [...]

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Still going strong
30 still appears to be okay - although i may have a new wrinkle…. and my skin is definitely drier… still, its to be expected now…. *sighs heavily* OMG - if i have another baby, i’ll be an elderly pregnant person :~O
Anyway, its been a quiet and lovely weekend - girls have pootered, [...]