Sweet Stuff

awwwww, some really sweet things have happened over the last week... and i just wanted to share them with you.....

1: James and Harry found a woodlouse in the garden....... and for the first time ever i saw James be gentle.... he is very heavy handed with toys, Harry.. every thing in fact so to see him be so gentle was so sweet. as he touched it , it automatically rolled into a ball.... when it uncurled all its legs were waving in the air...... James so gently rolled it on to its feet... and then he just walked off (  thats James not the woodlouse! LOL)

2: As most of you know, we use Makaton signing, Harry has been signing now for a while...... not all signs... after all he is only 15 months, but he knows about 7 - 10 signs now and uses them alot.
We sing songs all day long at home, we sing songs to every thing we do... James responds better to singing... for instance... ' this is the way we wash our hands, wash our hands, wash our hands, this is the way we wash our hands, when we are all mucky' * how i wish you could hear me singing that right now! LOL
anyway...... all the songs we sing have actions..... and James and Harry at the same time the other night both did all the actions to hickory dickory dock.
What a FANTASTIC moment.  How cool was that.
Someone once said the children with ASD dont respond to signs..... well James does. he has been looking at my hands now more and more the last week. He has only just started to discover that his arms and legs are his ( im not sure he does yet, but certainly fascinated by them) he has now started to closely look at his hands. He has signed just once... and that was about a butterfly, we weren't talking about them....... he was looking at a picture of one and signed it. There's an awful lot in James mind going on That I'm not aware of. Sometimes I think he knows more than me about things, but then is confused by his own body parts etc, and our DR feels he sees people as objects rather than people........


oh I went off on one there! LOL

and now the 3rd thing ( you know how I am with things in threes!)

3: James has begun to copy  a sound. Harry has been saying uhh ohh now at least 60 times a day for the last  4 months.. so its something that is said an awful lot! LOL  Today James copied it... and to hear him say uhhh ohhh rather than a sound he makes all the time, was the most exciting thing ever... to actually hear his voice, that will sound silly to some... but the sounds he makes now are more noises, grunts, screams, mmmmmmimg etc. so to hear his voice is AMAZING. Even little Harry looked amazed... harry gave a fantastic laugh... It was a really proud moment :)

Much  love x

New Horizons

Well...... I've proved i can't live without the Internet... it has been awful!!!!! but now I'm back! lol

The move was  not quite as planned..... having all got S&D on the actual day was not the best.. but we are in. and had some amazing friends help along the way.. who all in turn then got S&D! ( sorry :( ..)
James has taken a long time to settle... well it seems like  long time to me... its now day 12 in the new house... he still hates the dining room and this week i aim to paint it a different colour.... magnolia in fcat. ( you cant beat a bit of magnolia! LOL )
 its currently a dark green .. ish... its an ok colour, but James covers his eyes when he want to walk through it to the conservatory.. it has to go.
Bedtime is AMAZING... not so much for James but certainly for harry.. that vibrating mattress has to be the best 100 I have ever spent........ 7.30... after being bathed and a little ' its time for bed song' i turn the mattress on to voice activated.. he cries, it comes on, he's silent within 2 Min's..... OMG its a god send... although i can tell you that 31st of march in the morning, not only did i cry so much coz we were leaving but it also meant giving up breast feeding... for good and just like that...... i guess ( i don't guess i know) that in fact it was me putting it off.. and the lack of being able to keep them separate at night from stopping waking each other up. But certainly for Harry the move has done him the world of good :)
I'm sure with time James will settle. but currently on a full day of crying, being angry, destructive.... but the show must go on as they say.. and it will...... patience Patience Patience.. and some times just having to walk away! :)

 So you like what you see above? Woop Woop.. I'm proud to say that the children's centre here in Bourne and in Stamford are supporting Little Stars.. formally known as Team James.

The groups will run in both towns.. dates will be confirmed asap and it will go into all the flyer's for the new terms dates.... all the doctors surgery's, HV's midwives etc. and anyone else i can think where to put it.

I know it will be a success... maybe a little hard work but hey....... so so worth it. 

My over all BIG PLAN is to have a session also called Big Stars for the next age group... and then to move on to the teenagers & parents. It will happen because i want it to.. and because as ever I'M extremely passionate about making this work.

I know i go on and on about stuff but you know me... when i have a plan.. it swings into action pretty damn quick...... OMG look at the time.. I'm missing holby.......... lol much love xx