My Kind of Flowers

The boys know that I much prefer my flowers to be growing out in the garden rather than dying in a vase inside so Loo Bear made me a gorgeous bunch of paper sunflowers :)

Walk Carefully

Today at ECIS the kids made reindeer biscuits - milk arrowroot biscuits topped with chocolate frosting, pretzels for antlers, smarties for eyes and a jaffa nose. One of the TAs bagged them up for the kids to take home and as they were given out at the end of the session she said "Walk carefully so the antlers don't fall off."

Beanie solemnly took his bag and gingerly held it high up out in front of him. He then proceeded to take slow, careful, measured steps all the way out to the car.

 :)

Reading

Gotta love the different reading preferences...

 Loo Bear with 'Spies', 'Hannibal' and a book about monsters and mythical creatures.

vs.

 Shmoo Bear with Dyson vacuum cleaner catalogues and a dictionary.

Peg Fairies

The peg fairies have been at work again.

"They have to be with the matching ones." he said.

Hmm. A touch of Aspie-ness there perhaps.

Spot the Aspie*

I looked up to see Shmoo walking circles around the iPod Touch. It took me a second to work out what he was doing: experimenting with the pedometer. The voice over instructions had told him to "walk around to activate the sensor."

*I know he's not actually a diagnosed Aspie, but The OH is and we suspect Shmoo is too... and it's easier to say than PDD-NOS.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Time to dig out our secular Christmas songs playlist and put it on the iPod!

With one new addition this year: It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Bing Crosby.

Absence Seizures?

So, today the possibility of Beanie having absence seizures, a form of epilepsy, was brought up by his early intervention teacher. I'd never heard of these before. He has these little episodes where he just goes blank / switches off / shuts down. It happens frequently but more often during or after a meltdown where he's been crying hysterically. As his EI teacher said, it could be related to his possible ASD (referrals and paperwork have been put through for his assessment) or it could be seizures. We are waiting for a paed appointment through the hospital so this will be another thing to investigate when that comes through.

Huh. And now I'm remembering when Beanie was a wee babe and, on occasion, would do an odd, brief, trembling thing when he was feeding. I wonder if it's related?

Brave - Sara Bareilles

Awesome, inspiring, catchy song and music video.

1st Haircut

Loo has been asking for another haircut for months now so I finally got organised today and got the clippers out (gave him a #3 - should last him a while!). As usual, I asked the other 2 if they wanted a haircut too and, for the first time, Beanie said yes, he'd like a 'little' haircut. I did Loo first, giving Beanie a chance to change his mind but he didn't. I took about 20cm off his hair... it was down around his waist and now sits at the bottom of his shoulder blades.

Beanie did really well during his haircut but it wiped him out for the rest of the day. He spent the evening in total meltdown mode - screaming and crying over everything and nothing and unable to communicate, unable to eat his dinner. The OH had to lie down and hold him until he fell asleep. Poor Beanie was so exhausted, he still looked really pale and out of it as he slept. Hopefully he'll wake up feeling better tomorrow.

Tourism Film Shoot - Pioneer Park

We were asked to attend a film shoot for a tourism ad at a local camping ground today. The 15 second ad will eventually be shown on the Spirit of Tasmania and at tourism information centres.