Lots of photos to catch up... and NO MORE DUMMIES!

More pictures than words

Busy, busy day. Lots of flour everywhere to write words and stick toes into. Walking through the nature reserve. Another session with Norfolk Wildlife Trust (great fun!) camouflaging caterpillars and making nests, making bug homes, planting seeds with songs and stories. Lastly a short session with the utterly brilliant Janet over in the sensory room. Lamb cannot access any O.T resources currently so this offer of sessions in the SureStart sensory room has been a blessing.

I'll leave the photos to talk for themselves today because if I'm honest I'm knackered and can't be bothered to write too much today!

Sensory bugs and beasties

We had been invited by the surestart team to a sensory session with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

The kids had loads of fun with stories and crafts and treasure hunts.

Moo was first in there answering the questions and getting his hands in the feely bag.

Lamb has been in a very peculiar mood today and it took him some time to really get into the event. He really wasn't too sure about touching...

This was pretty cool. Lamb was reluctant to have a feel but Moo was more than happy to have a feel of the snakes skin.

When they started the bug hunt Lamb was much happier. Bashing trees with sticks? Much more his kinda thing!

Not many bugs around though!

We also had another appointment with the paediatrician today to review medication dosage. We'll wait and see how that goes. We had a little bit of a talk about what the future might hold...

It's been difficult accepting that in the future Lamb may continue to need considerable support. Once accepted though, it's almost a relief. The paediatrician has said that he'll have a chat with the special needs nursing team and see if they might have some strategies to help Lamb learn some more self-care skills.

Every step is a step in the right direction. The surestart team were also fabulous today, giving advice on how to fill out the disability living allowance form for Lamb. It's been declined once but the paediatrician is definite that Lamb should be entitled to it. The form is a little more friendly to fill out than this time last year, but it's still an enormous form to fill out. Fingers crossed this time Lamb will be awarded the benefit.

From Little Acorns

Mini-museum day today. Here they are, off on an acorn hunt to help the forgetful squirrel who had lost all of her acorns around the museum. Moo LOVES the magnifying glasses!

Using a funky little leaf shaped punch to decorate pictures of trees. They also had a go at some sponge painting while they were there and the new staff member fell in love with Moo, so seriously did he take his painting!

Don't you love this photo? Lamb looks like he's in training to be a model or something - just look at that pose!

Both boys had a chance to plant some tree seeds. Though I'm not sure where we're going to put it if Moo's Walnut does grow?

Lamb's apple seedlings would probably be easier to accommodate!

It's erm, a bird feeder. Can't tell can you? But it is, I swear.

Lamb is busy in the background making some leaf bunting.

It was a lovely session at the museum with loads for the kids to do. There was a really nice sensory table set up to do lots of wax rubbings and songs and stories. I'm hoping Lamb will be ready for the older group soon though.

After a busy morning the afternoon was consumed by a speech and language appointment. After almost a year of waiting Lamb has finally reached the top of the waiting list and starts individual speech sounds therapy at the end of April. It would be wonderful if this goes well, but we shall wait and see.

On a less enthusiastic note, the speech therapist has asked me to fill in a form to have Moo referred for speech and language assessment. I'm vaguely upset about this but I'm not sure why.

Moo is very communicative, but his speech is somewhat unclear at times, which I've always put down to him copying his brother's pronunciation. A proper assessment can't do any harm though I suppose.

After all that there wasn't really any time to do anything else! The day slipped by in a whirlwind today.