Monday, May 30, 2011

I did it, I ran the Half Marathon!

Last Sunday the early hours of the morning I think it was around 3am, I woke up in the night and decided I'd enter the Calgary Half Marathon. Later in the week my quad seized up and I'm like hmmmmmmm oh no! Luckily my friend who does triathlons recommended this sports body technician, calling her a physio or osteopath wouldn't fit... and anyway I found that my knee had a sheer going through it my ankle was out and turning in and my sacrum was 1.5inches higher on one side than the other. This was Thursday and this therapist said I was good to go for Sunday.

Having the reaction that you do when your body is re-aligned, I was like hmmmm not sure if I'm running. Anyway 5.30 on the morning of the run, the cramp had gone. (I did borrow Oatie's Eggs too).

So the run started at 7am, and I am not sure of the exact time I have got as they haven't published the chip times, but I believe it be between 2h12 to 2h16. I was on par to finish at 2h06, but on the last three miles where I usually would pick my pace up, my leg and ankle was feeling good and had the choice of going all out for it..... or finishing on a great time but in one piece. At which point I had to remind myself of my objective, to finish.... nothing more... I did do a 100m sprint at the end... and I didn't look up as the finish line was congested and a bit like playing frogger!

The funny bit was that I ran this Half 3 years ago, 3 days after we moved to Canada in fact and I couldn't remember my previous time. So I thought I ran it 8 minutes faster, as it turns out, I ran it around 20 minutes faster than 3 years ago.

I didn't have time to raise money for charity on this instance, however I ran it for a few reasons.

I ran for Oatie, this guy (my son) who pushes past the boundaries of everyday life everyday. He achieves what doctors say he would never achieve. He always works hard and is a boundary pusher. Every now and then I need to push the boundaries of achievement too. For me it keeps us in sync. The last time I ran it I didn't know he had CP he was 11 months old. This time I ran it, knowing he is physically impaired and well not training specifically for it and just going for it and beating the odds and funny enough beating my course PB time by around 20 minutes go to show what we can do.

I ran it to tell my body, yes your thyroid might be shot, and yes, your endocrine system is messed up.. and the whole throat lump thing..... however body, I can and I WILL. Which mirror's Oatie's philosophy.


I also ran it for me, for my soul and I find the whole experience rejuvenating.... I feel so ALIVE when I'm running that distance and to finish injury free was a total bonus especially how I was on Thursday! I can't believe that 20 minutes off my time too and I hadn't trained. I hadn't run more than 10km and the run was 21.1km.

In-between that, my eldest had his bowling party and I made him an R2D2 cake for his Starwars themed party. I wrote a post midst last week, that I haven't yet published but it's about our family's transition, probably the last straw of our family unit accepting Oatie's condition, not giving up but actually, not at all, more us, adjusting from an all able bodied family to one with physical impairment. I'll publish it later this week.

Love

Oatie's Mum
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Friday, May 20, 2011

The Sun always shines...

Don't you think? I know that life can be not pleasant at times.... and with one of my friends banding today is the end of the world.... and well, I don't agree, (not entering a religious debate here) I just mean that the Sun always shines... My birthday is in June and my mum always did a Garden party as she knew the weather would be awful a wet English Summer but the sun would come out on my Birthday and it always has... I can't recollect when it's rained on it and that's no mean feat in England!



So yesterday I have an 8 year old, he suddenly seems more mature, like 8 means big kid to him too. But he let me kiss him in the school corridor today and invited me to sit and chat with him after I volunteered with lego club and he gave me a tour of the school cafe microwave... He gets frustrated with me as I won't let him microwave in plastic at all...



The Cake I made was a last minute adventure... the day we flew to Montreal, suddenly at lunch I thought I've baked his party cake (not iced yet) but I haven't done his actual one for his actual day.... So on the day of our trip, I baked and iced a cake... It was a quick one and I made and coloured the icing from scratch and iced the whole thing in 52minutes... which included painting the ice cream cones (lightsaber handles). I washed the icing nozzles up just before we left for the airport lol!



Luke (my eldest) had a great day, they had a posh volunteer tea after lunch till the end of school, where the Grade 12's served us Tea and Cake, so it was nice to dress up, we had a nice dinner and enjoyed opening the presents and cake and watched a movie together.



Well, yesterday we had torrential rain and the weather forecasters (I don't envy their job - they'd have a better chance of throwing sand in the air and catching it to predict the weather than looking at the charts... mountain weather is so unpredictable as you know). They predicted a wet bank holiday weekend, and today it was damp and overcast this morning, but after my swim.. I fancied a run but outside looked awful.. I stepped out, put on two wooly hats (Toques) and two zippy fleeces and started around the track... and the sun came out, after 800M the fleeces were off (I kept the hats on as my hair was damp from swimming) lol! so I looked like I was about to do a bank job! the out door track is run down, but it's run able and it's 200metres from Oatie's and my daughters school. So I can get an extra mile in if I run outside which is great, also great priming for the half marathon if I do it next weekend... I am so tempted... just to run it... just for fun...



Oatie has been great, his vocab has been gaining confidence as have his sentences and he has been chatting about more abstract things... he can now get down and up from his table chair..... which was unbelievable really...



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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Muggy Wednesday.. and no I'm not complaining.... I wouldn't do that!!!

Well today is MUGGY and it reminds me of the UK or (Montreal!!), it was gorgeous and sunny and Muggy!!! My friend and I did a 10k (6 miles) run it could have been a bit further but the Nike GPS had "interferrence" from what I know not... as we were outside... but we did the same route as last week but added another mile and we felt it running up this crazy hill at the end.

I'm thinking of being crazy, and running a half marathon in 8 days time with no more than 10km of the 23km under my belt. But saying that I ran 4 halfs in 12 weeks (no injury) with 2 weeks training (the first was on a dare) the next three one good friend moved 4 hours away so we decided that we could chinwag for 2-3 hours, while we ran ... (and we did, we have a classic photo of a lapped half marathon when the photographer shouted at us, you girls still chatting and we're like YEAH! and he snapped a photo of us laughing, it's still on my piano today, and I love it!) and ran this same one that I'm contemplating on running 3 days after landing in Canada, when we moved country! I'm on the mindset, and I don't care if I come last and I don't care if I have to pull out half way round... I just fancy doing it.

Oatie Climbed in to the CAR today, he needed a little bit of help... but not much. We were just about to start getting our Bench organised for our new exercises when..... The FedEx girl arrived. (OMG have you seen their uniform.... her socks were very special!!! it was like something out of St Trinians.... or Halloween... well that aside, Oatie opened our front door, I'm not sure what she thought of our little man opening the door, especially with his cheerful greeting and gorgeous manners...

Well inside, was his OTTERBOX cover!!! He saw it and shouted " my IPAD YEAH!!!! My Magic Pad YEAH!!! My Ipad is HERE!!!! YEAH!!! I waiting for Ipad YEAH" it was spontaneous and priceless and more to the point, I LOVED how he just saw the OtterBox Brand or the yellow or whatever visual cue it was and he knew that he was waiting for the otterbox to use his ipad....

Well he was straight on there playing with the Xylophone, and then he was spelling words with a match the letter game and my favourite was 24 card memory... (12 pairs) he did that and I have to say I made him do it again thinking it was some weird fluke... what I think I'm going to gain from the ipad is, I know he's very very bright... but I think I'm going to see how actually bright he is.... Well in someways it's almost a "crime" someone that bright being 'trapped' in a body that won't comply with his heart... and then you have some thug, who has perfect bio-mechanics... and (well to me that's wasted...) I'm sure what I've said is totally politically incorrect.. but hey ho... this time 8 years ago I was battling people who claimed that I was't giving birth and 10 seconds later my eldest was born! But if you look at the upside... it's people like Oatie who with that level of drive, push the boundaries and push for advancements and it's those people who can and have the potential to make a difference, I suppose I see my role as facilitating/letting him reach the full potential that he can be...

So tonight is Birthday Eve,... in the UK it would have already been the time of my eldest's birth... so we sang him an early happy birthday.. which he loved as it was to the minute... (don't get me started on leap years and the quarter day!). So my son who was born at 32 weeks, will be officially 8 in Canadian time in a few hours... 8! 8! 8!, I'm going to be cliché but it has flown, I remember holding this 3lb14oz premmie in my hand literally... and taking so so so long to change his diaper/nappy that i'd either get soaked or have to change it again, as he was so fragile and delicate and with all the monitors on him, it was like a puzzle to change him...


Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A trip to the Farm... well Garden Centre... Farm... ohhh Lingo lol!


Today Oatie went on a field trip literally, well it was to a local Farm and in the UK you'd class it more as a Garden Centre with coffee shop... needless to say, it's one of my favourite places to visit locally... the food is gorgeous and I think most of the food items are grown or raised on their land.

Well it was really nice to spend some one on one with Oatie, in a fun non therapy way. Becaues of the large loose rocks it's not the best to take a stroller but I did show the other mum with a 10month old... the special technique for the rocks... (having had 3 years of experience of it lol!) I remember the first time navagating the rocks with Oatie when he was 1 thinking, phew... "Glad he'll be walking soon! lol!" little did I know.

I'm not sure if I mentioned... but my daughter is doing a K project where she presents something new to the class each each, she's like kid of the week and each week it's someone elses turn. They present right from their very first photo EVER to today.... I was looking at the photos of Oatie as a Baby and scrutinising them..., and even when my daughter was snuggling with him in her arms with me on the couch... he looked "Normal" he was even a chub-ster like my eldest... Apart from the non walking (when my super figure skating 6 year old daughter didn't walk till she was almost 3) there was no actual cue... The speech of Oatie at a comparable age to my eldest was no worst (in fact some words were better) than my now Public Speaking Savvy almost 8 year old.... Like I knew when we had to insist to our GP that he needed to see someone (Our GP was still like.. no he's fine.. just lazy....)...

Well getting on to our Fabulous day... Oatie had the most impeccable manners, he was a thorough Gent... he is a true sweetheart and well I felt like a very lucky lady having those yummy hands of his in mine for 2 hours while I did my "John Wayne" swaggering walk (I straddle Oatie legs and hold both his hands) forwards and walking backwards around the Farm. We walked and looked around the plants, the plantlings, the flowers, the pig. (yep one) and the excotic chicks... the Roosters... and then we stopped off in the Cafe for some homemade baked goods....

Had another milestone moment, all the kids wanted to sit on a plastic horse... and Oatie insisted and insisted... I put him on there ready to catch him as was another mum... just in case and even though he didn't like it too much when he was on there, he actually could SIT on it... unaided!!!

We had a brilliant time and it was a glorious day... I got a tan for sure... and it was so nice I even managed to extract Oatie's Coat off him...

OK OK... and it was nice to Dry off after being in the rain for 3 days in Montreal... cold damp rain... (reminded me of England lol!) well nice and dry in Sunny AB...

Oh and Phil, I left AB it was almost wintery, and 4 day later we've gone past buds to full leaflets!!!!

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Fixed our post...

Just to let you all know we fixed our post... don't know what happened there... lol!

Will upload our Garden Centre Field Trip photos later, Oatie loved it!

On the plane...

Oatie at Breakfast
That's Better.... Sorry about the Scrolling-looping HTML blog Entry,,, all I can say is the preview looked ok... maybe it (blogger) had jetlag... lol!Well... We made the plane.... Not the plane that was delayed... They cancelled that one... So they us on another one with a connection that we were going to miss that connection too.... Well... From being ground staff for a major airline... I was like... What's wrong with the later direct flight... They were like ohhhhh we didn't think of that... But they were actually great and they went the extra mile for sure... They went and offloaded our bags from the other connecting flight... And managed us to get us and hopefully our bags onto our direct flight which..... Should get us back home... At the same time as our original flight...

Oatie Watching TV with his sister
So we're on the plane... We've been airborne for 1:15... So almost and ABR session to go... Lol!

Well even now we'd be getting our bags off the carousel... Instead we're at home, kids had dinner and been asleep for hours, all unpacked one wash done... School lunches made...

We had a brilliant flight, I have to say that WestJet is a nice good airline... The service is usually really good. I've only had one bad flight with them... And I'd say in my top 5 airlines EVER for sure.

SUNNY Calgary's night sky when we landed
Well had a comic moment... I used the Trapster apple app to find a gas bar near Montreal Doval airport... And well two of the gas bars that it lead us to have been dug up... The third was a two pump affair... It was $1.48 per litre... So I was like noooooooopppee. The Full serve man got a bit heated as we said no... So we decided that we'd expect the hire company to fleece us but it couldn't be worse than that surely... The hire company man was like I'm sorry but it's $1.26 a litre... Well I was like that's a bargain...lol!  I have never seen such a gas unavailable airport... The ones in the UK are like... Last gas... And are dotted from each angle you can enter the airport... Well driving to YUL at least is never dull... Google Maps seems to cope with the constant digging pretty well...Oh and I had a crew moment when I asked for a tomato juice and she said back,tomato (uk) pronunciation or tomato (Canadian) and before I could answer she said we dont have tomato juice (uk pronunciation) only tomato juice! Lol! Love it!

The kids all got to sit in the Captains chair upon landing.... Oatie too, and he held his WestJet pen all the way on the return flight and till he got to bed...

Oatie eating his snack on board...


Sunday, May 15, 2011

On our way home...

Well we're on our way home... all packed and ready to go. We went to our favourite Indian restaurant in Canada. The food was fabulous one again, I was kind of tentative that it would be an anti climax.... looking forward to it for 6 months... they spoilt the kids and they gave us complimentary puddings all round. Superb value and it was lovely dining experience.



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Day Three and Basilique Notre-Dame De Montréal

Today was day 3/3 of our training. We got stuck into our manual exercises today and we got the 4th "channel" for our ABR Machine. Which means that we can do one more area on Oatie when he sleeps.

I have three exercises on his head/neck which are called Manual. I have one submerged ball rolling on his head the photo was posted yesterday. Submerged

Then we have the mid back and the ribs of intensive rolling.

We finished the morning by looking at the future tool of working with Egg's and also were given the bladder for Oatie's hips.

So we have 2 machine set ups... Front and Back of Chest, front and back of abdomen... OR.... Front and Back of Chest and the hips....

The difference we noticed this time was one multi useful platform.. two balls... one of which we already have.

We also have a contingency plan for Oatie's frequent colds... and have a priority of which lower half ones to do.

The familes that we trained with one we met last fall and one was a new family which was nice.

Inside Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal
This afternoon we went to the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal... we had our guided tour, my daughter wanted the French tour... and the rest of us wanted the English tour... after tour we took a nice stroll around the olde town, and had a stop in a cafe before heading back to our hotel.

The kids are persuading us for a swim and then we're going to our favourite indian restaurant in Canada so far.

'China Town - Montreal'
Huge Bridge
Our parking space by the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal
Oatie's Mum thought orange road markings interesting
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Day 2 of Training Done...

Last night we took the kids swimming in the pool... which they loved... Oatie hasn't been swimming since Halloween because he's ben ill after ill after ill...Today, we started our session by setting up yesterday's intensive ball-rolling and in our case it was Oatie's Ribs... Today we did the brand new ball-rolling technique where you submerge the head or body part in a ball, so in effect they look like TOAD from Mario... it doesn't hurt and Oatie LOVED it. We also did the Shoulder Edge by that technique.

After lunch we were all tired either from the trip or training so we chilled out at the hotel, went for a bite to eat before Oatie's 6 month interval photo session. He still cried but not as bad as before... he showed off how he could pull up his pants and how he can now crawl alternating legs if he wants and how he can walk and bend down and pick up an object....

So training is going great and one more day tomorrow where we get the 4th channel for our machine, which he'll be getting some machine ABR for his hips...

OK and the sun didn't last for long, it's rained all day...! Really enjoying the training and looking forward to tomorrow...

love

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Day one of May 2011 training done

Today we arrived for our morning session... We had a great training, we started on "intense ball rolling". Oatie was a good boy :) our first exercise was "along the ribs".
Practising the new technique
Mum testing new techniques
 

Sunny sunny sunny Montreal

We had a great flight to the point that my eldest didn't even wake when we touched down... The flight deck were lovely, they let the kids go in the cockpit... Oatie said you fly the plane? was priceless... and they all got a pen each... which Oatie held on the entire flight...off the plane in the car, fell asleep at breakfast still holding it...

My Beaver Scouts held up to their promise today... we saw a lady struggling pushing a stroller and a luggage cart... (I have fond memories of that...hmmmm) until....) when a lovely off duty soldier on our first trip to Montreal, who helped me off the plane... and to the taxi rank.

So today, Oatie, my eldest, my daughter and I helped the lady to the bus stop. My daughter pushed this lady's baby, and my Eldest read the signs... Oatie was chatting to the baby and then we had the barrage of questions... "Why did we help her?... Why did no one else help her.... Why are the baggage carts so baby/handicapped unfriendly...? etc..."

Part of the Beaver Promise "I promise to love God and help take care of the world"

So everyone had a nice nap and slept through the maintenance guys ripping out a fridge in our room to replace it...

So we're off for a quick essentials shop and out for dinner.



Oatie has named our hire car... Scooby and predicted that the car would be black, which it was... 

Thursday, May 12, 2011

On our way to YUL...

Well he's had a haircut... I've made another Birthday cake... (yep another birthday next week) it's cake 1/2... I iced it in 30 mins...Just a "something" to cut on my eldests birthday. It's now chillin' in our freezer for next week. We're at the airport... On our way to Montreal for our next training... :) BlogBooster-The most productive way for mobile blogging. BlogBooster is a multi-service blog editor for iPhone, Android, WebOs and your desktop

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Who loves Walmart...?

Well, I vowed that I wouldn't' shop in Walmart... (before the recession lol) this was when I lived in England and Walmart had just acquired ASDA. British Satellite had broadcast a programme on how Walmart treats its suppliers which was an eyeopener... It was at the same time when the BBC did a reality documentary on India, called "Blood Sweat and T'shirts".

It raised the whole controversy over buying something made in a a country where the workers are being taking advantage of, and they know it to boycotting the whole Outfit, lol, an unintented pun. The Walmart one showed people living in cell block style cells but no locks where they worked in the factory and had no actual toilet... the credabilitity of the footage... who knows? The blood Sweat and T'shirts... well these teenagers from the UK had to work in the sweatshop.... and live as the locals did... and their conclusion was, please keep buying the t'shirts even though it's unfair conditions as without the big contracts.... they would starve... And look for fairtrade garments, and use that as your voting with feet.....

Well today I was in the wonderful Walmart... still and Oatie an I were in there shopping... it was one of those days when you look for something and it's been moved and you just can't find it... so we were in there for an hour... I never get to browse these days as all my spare time I'm rolling JJ.... but today we spalshed out on time... while the other two were dancing we swung by, it was nice to browse. Well I mention the whole Walmart thing as a year ago, Oatie would scream being in there, a high pitched one... and HATE it... and today he didn't and was actually making out letters and numbers which was nice, and he helped me look for things.... I was getting a few travel essentials as tomorrow we leave for Montreal for Oatie's next session.

We've bought the app, and now considering whether to buy the 3000 French vocab images.... to upload to the ipad... as that would save the school teacher and his aide hours and hours of time. The only thing is that they are in Gif format and apparently not Ipad compaitble... but I'm sure I could open and resave them as Jpegs.... do I want to do that for 3000 images.....hmmmmmmm.

Other than that it's now like Summer, you cannot wear a coat even if you wanted too... it's a dry 18oC....

I was explaining to the kids that Beef comes from Cows... and now each time JJ sees a cow in the field he's like.... "YUMMY BURGER!!!!! Cow EAT burger?" I'm like.... "no.... their meat makes burgers..." "YUMMY COW... YUMMY BURGER!!!!" You can tell he's from Alberta.... lol!

My beaver loved the Taco's that we had at camp, so I thought that we'd have some fajitas tonight... he's so excited. Well had better go and eat our fajitas (yes they are beef...!)




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Is it Monday, and a School Support meeting went well....???? and a bird family murder...

The card my Beaver made me at Camp...
Oh where do I start....  Friday was a busy but crazy day...I did the School Run, swam 2km... ran a mile... then went off to collect Oatie early from School... dropped him off at home with his dad... to then run a brush through my hair to go to my eldest's school to volunteer for Lego Club... with Oatie, I hardly get to volunteer at anyones school, so I like doing a grade 1-3 club as I get to meet the kids he goes to school with and it's only a 6 week commitment on a Friday for 30 minutes.  So after that I dove home packed the last few items for Scout camp, and then picked my daughter up early early to go to my eldests Mother's Day Tea celebration.  Each Class Grades 1-6 did a skit and after you were presented with a rose.  While the kids watched a short story, the mum's and siblings had strawberry shortcake and a cup of tea (tea and saucers) or pink juice.  After we got home we ate an early dinner so me and my little Beaver Scout could go to Camp.

I'm a Scout Scout leader and my eldest is a 3rd year Beaver, so he was allowed to camp with the Cub Pack, as long as an adult was with him...  So we kipped in the smallest two man tent EVER... I usually don't mind being in it as my pack and I fit just about ok... but having another body and a Webkinz Bat in there too, just tipped the balance over the edge...!  I woke during torrential rain that was so heavy I brought out boots into the inner part of the tent... and woke up bolt upright at 3.30am! with severe claustrophobia, my shoulders were in agony from being scrunched up... I couldn't sit up and my arms were trapped and the mummy bag was tight around me and I knew I couldn't even dive outside as this tents zipper sticks.... and the only way to get out is to do a gymnastic manoeuvre that I haven't been able to do for at least a decade!!!  LOL!  The only way I managed to clam down was, flinging my sleeping bag open and sending some S.O.S texts asking my husband to bring a bigger tent... for the second night... which even though he was sound asleep, just took my mind off the whole trapped thing.  I looked over and then saw the BAT and my beaver scout, on my half of the tent... so after moving him back to his side and just freeing my arms I felt so much better.  I made a pact that if after 5 minutes I still felt trapped I'd have a wonder outside the tent and stretch my legs.  Having spend over 1 year of my life camping by the age of 15...  I stopped counting after that... I realised that my being silly about being claustrophobia at a trade off to my eldest enjoying a pursuit that I've enjoyed my entire life, my parents bought a caravan since I was a toddler and we camped most weekends before I became a brownie... was far more important.  He'd be cold in a larger tent, here he was warm and snug and really enjoyed the experience, in this tiny tent......  so for night two, I chuckled, when I saw his huge smile on his face when he slept and thought I'll be ok, I have him and a Bat to hug... lol!

Aside from that, we had a brilliant time, the other Beaver parents followed their Beaver around, but as I'm friends/knew with most of the other leaders, and they were supervised at all times and the camp was pretty small only 55 campers including adults  (we had 10 parent helpers on top of leaders so it was almost 1-1 ratio...), I let him just join in with the Cubs to get the full experience, he had to think for himself, and get to breakfast, negotiate the table system, and wash up, pack his mess kit and get to the activities on time, speak up about his allergies and I was actually in total awe and was gob-smacked how this almost 8 year old was such a natural camper, like my standards are high,.... and he blew me away.  I was there, but might be 20feet away having a watchful eye but if he looked my way, I'd pretend to look at woodpecker.... but when on the Cargo net which 20 of them could fit and he fell and his leg was dangling to the ground through the net about to get twisted... I bolted across the field and in a few seconds and stopped the net (thankful for my running fitness...).  I'm sure at one point when the kids were doing a treasure hunt, it wasn't my activity but my son was doing the hunt...... that this other leader must have thought that I was totally over strict... the kids were by the stream bank... and were within 1foot of the water's edge... water didn't have much of a flow and was shallowish...and at a glance it didn't look too dangerous... but with mountain run off... you just never know.. and also in the older level of Scouting, when we take our Scouts Canoe camping no one not even an adult is allowed 10 feet of the waters' edge without a life jacket, which must be fully zipped....  So I kept on saying away from the edge and stopped the hunt till they all complied...  and explained the rules to the Grade 2/3, who thought about it for a good few moments... one asked a safety question, and then they all moved from back from the bank.... and what was sweet, if one forgot another cub would remind them of the water safety rules.....

Mothering Sunday was nice, after my fellow troop Scouters cooked me a breakfast and made me a cup of tea... my Beaver came and gave me his card and a hug hug.  In the Afternoon, we went home and my daughter had a dinosaur party to go to while Beaver and I unpacked... and a Chocolate cake I made earlier was thawed out the night before... and we had a nice takeout... but I fell asleep at 21:00.

Today we had the OT meeting with the special needs school boards co-ordinator... and his preschool teacher.  OMG I can't believe it was a Monday and the meeting with the School Board OT went well!  Well I was not very happy but being a softy seeing a heavily pregnant woman... kind of melted me a bit....  :)

So I had to re-explain about ABR and the benefits and we're working on his pen holding motor skills, and she commented on his gait and I was like, it keeps changing depending on which set of techniques I'm doing with him.  We we agreed on a chair for him to participate in on Story-time and I ran it by ABR  So he could sit on the floor and hand independence from his aide....

Here are some TREE BUDS.... FINALLY!!!!


Which is some sad news... his Aide is moving back to Quebec....  Slightly devastated... his aide is one of the nicest people I've EVER met... and finding anyone as good as this guys right hand will be a challenge...  But the school know about it already so they have 3 months to find someone....

I've downloaded the app that the speech therapist recommended I use with JJ, but no he doesn't get speech therapy... I was told that I have great technique with him... so I'll be fine !?!!?!!?!?!?!?!?!? hmmmmmm... yes a conversation for another day!  The app, so far is a "deep breath"... it's written in a way that it's so linear and doesn't multi dimensionally think... so you have to think to use it... kinds of defeats the object for me... like Oatie will need a strategy to use the app...  I will not bag it... till I have used it for a week... just to see... but I hope that we like it.... it wasn't a $3.00 app...

So that's where we're at...  Oatie climbed in his seat and back out... and we had a great ABR session, 3.5 hours today...  I loved it I walked in from Camp and he said "mama Bench???" I said not today Oatie.. Mama going in the Shower.. he came up and sniffed me and said "Mama smells nice..." lol!

Oh and while we were savouring nature... when I went to put my backpack away,,, one of our windows outside our basement had evidence of a Bird Family massacre... you could see the outlines of the wings of the birds being pressed up against the glass.... it must have been a bird/birds of prey who took out this family as apart from the mark of the birds wingspans against the glass, claw marks etched in the glass, there wasn't a single drop of blood.  Euwwwwwww.
The scratches is the birds markings but you can see the wing print on the right hand side of the photo in the middle..





Thursday, May 5, 2011

Oatie climbed into his seat...

Well we are still waiting on the Otterbox covers, no news on the delivery of them yet..

However I have paired the keyboard to my ipad, the wireless one so it's a rather novel experience to have a super lightweight keyboard on my lap, rather than a heavy-hot laptop!

Usually I tap away on my phone as I tend to use blogbooster, as the photos I take are usually on my phone and so it's easier more seam-free to send them directly to the blog. For luxury I'd type on my desktop and then add the photos... but now my hands finally have the freedom of a keyboard... full size to touch type from....

Well today we got in 3hours and one minute. Don't forget the one minute... lol!

Sorry we haven't been about as much... The last month as been so busy... well with all the competitions and then school projects and cakes that I've iced... My daughter got 3 cakes in the end... and baking of more cakes... (ok ok really enjoy baking and decorating them)... we have back to back birthdays in our home from April to July...

The Snow has FINALLY stopped...the district have sent trucks round to sweep the stone chipping... this Winter has been a long long long one...and just think in 4.5 months it (Winter) could be back!

Today Oatie and I have been working more on his separation anxiety... well it's actually Mummy's late syndrome...

His preschool sometimes are early but more often late... so on the odd occasion that they open the door 3 minutes early and I happen to arrive a minute before time but not late, Oatie has a meltdown... So when possible I arrive early, but wait around the corner, so hopefully he'll know it's ok if I'm not there immediately.... at pick up.

I also stupidly forgot the wheels, so I had to carry him 400m back to the car it could have been a greater distance but.... whatever it was, it wasn't my arms that were buckling.... it was my throat.

It "pops" is the way I describe it... and today as he refused to hold on... it went "pop" anything that's upper body physically straining makes it pop! So I'm having heaps of soothing things...

A person I see at the pool was saying how they don't use any anesthetic for the investigative proceedure to look at your vocal chords... as it doesn't hurt, apart from freak you out having a tube going under your eyesocket... that to me was like, give me childbirth anyday, but my throat is annoying me so much, that as squeamish as I am about eyes... I don't care... I just want it sorted and move on.

On Saturday, I couldn't even sing Happy Birthday at my daughters party... or on Wed at school we stood for the national anthem and I have even started to learn it in French (I love the anthem in French) but I had to stand there like a lemon as I can't Sing... (not tone deaf, no sound comes out...). It's the little things like rejigging story time, I have one of my two fluent readers reading to everyone rather than me...

Anyway, Oatie has finally got rid of his pox... from the vaccine... well, once I got back to the car with him... he said "Mama tired..." and he for the first time climbed into his carseat!!! and then when we got home,... he climbed into his booster seat... and he even tried to put on a sock!!! he was sooooooo close, I put it around his toes and he put the rest on...

I love what we take for granted, is HUGE to him. They said he had a great day at school with being highly social... I have to say his Aide, is just the best AIDE EVER!!! WOW he's so nice, and so patient and well, wow!



Tomorrow I'm volunteering at my eldest's school with Lego Club and then they have the Mother's day tea...which they put 1.5 hours later after the finish of the lunchtime club... at school, the campus is the middle of nowhere... I love it how they think these things through..., it's not about the tea, although I do love a cup myself... All the grades have a little part each... and I need to pick my daughter up from school, so I said that we could come after but will have missed the performance...

After that, My eldest and I are going to the end of year Scout district Camp. He's with the Beavers and I'm with the Scouts...so he'll be sharing a tent with me, for 2 nights... which should be fun... I had to get him some proper kit as even-though it's May, it get's quite cold at night still... and there is nothing worse than being cold at Camp... So I won't be back till Mother's day on Sunday... BlogBooster-The most productive way for mobile blogging. BlogBooster is a multi-service blog editor for iPhone, Android, WebOs and your desktop
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