Parents Evening

Yesterday evening me and Mr Messy attended Little Prince's Parent's Evening. His teacher had nothing but good things to say about him :-) Since he started on his medication he is like a different boy, he sits still, attends to his lessons and thinks deeply about the topics covered. His teacher said he working at the top end of Year 3 maths, and his reading is great too. Obviously they are still working on his writing skills, but that is improving massively all the time - he is so proud of himself that he and his teacher can read his work now :-)

Me and Mr Messy told his teacher that, unfortunately Little Prince's new prescription for his ADHD medication won't be filled until Monday, so he will be medication free for the next couple of days. We also had to tell her that sadly Mr Messy's Dad is gravely ill in hospital and isn't expected to last the night. She said that given how deeply Little Prince thinks about things, and how he has lost so much already she will see if his his Teaching Assistant can work with him throughout the day for the next couple of days, to support him through this. I was so touched by her concern for Little Prince and utter willingness to do whatever it takes to help him. She is definitely a STAR among teachers, and we and Little Prince are so lucky to have her.

Party Time

Little Prince was invited to his friend E's birthday party, they were best friends before E moved to a different local school, but still invite each other to their respective birthday parties. Little Prince really struggled this time as he was the only one from his school invited, and apart from E and his little brother he didn't know anyone. E is a nice boy, but not very empathic so he just ran off with his new school friends and left Little Prince to his own devices. Instead of having a huge tantrum or demanding to go home, Little Prince came and played with Princess Lollipop in the toddler play section. He was the PERFECT big brother, he helped her up the steps to the slide, held a huge swinging ball out of her way and then helped her down the big step to the slide. Then when some older boys came running in the toddler section he put himself between her and them, to prevent them bumping or hurting her. Then she claimed a ball as her own, and got upset when she dropped it down the slide steps and another child picked it up, without a moment's hesitation he ran and got her another one. Then he kept a close eye on her and everytime she dropped her ball again he dived to get it before any other child could touch it. He has always been a lovely big brother, but he went above and beyond at the party, I am so proud of him :-)

Potty Training (again!)

Princess Lollipop is desperately keen to use her potty, so each evening at bedtime we've been letting her have some "bare bum time." Today she was playing "Ready steady go" (ie running up and down the lounge and giggling) with Little Prince during "bare bum time" when she suddenly stopped running and went to sit on her potty, and she managed to wee in it :-) Instead of being scared this time she was thrilled with herself and wanted everyone to clap and tell her she was a big girl - which we did :-) She has spent over an hour with a bare botty and hasn't had any accidents, it looks like potty training is on its way and going well :-)

Well it went downhill from there!! Princess Lollipop had an accident and wet herself, and got hysterically upset about it :-( She seems physically ready for potty training, but emotionally she isn't there yet. I'm leaving it till nearer to Summer and see how she copes then.

Weekends are hard

To stop Little Prince continuing to lose weight on his ADHD medication, we have to let him have one or two days off medication per week. The days when he doesn't have his medication he eats huge amounts, so hopefully it is counteracting the lack of eating on medication days. However, his behaviour and levels of craziness and hyperactivity are through the roof! He is so hard to deal with, and he is exhausting everyone. No wonder Mrs LMS went to bed with a headache!!

I have no idea how to cope with this, he needs the weekend off medication to gain weight, but his behaviour is so much worse than it used to be :-(

Saturday

This morning I got Princess Lollipop up and dressed before taking her over to OUR shop with me. Leaving Mrs LMS in charge of Little Prince, for a while. I was going to meet my friend S and her son Y, and help S choose which photos to order from Y's recent photo shoot. She had to narrow it down from over 150 to 5!! It took us HOURS lol. Y is a gorgeous little lad :-) While we were sat in OUR shop choosing, a relative of S and her nephew walked past, on seeing S and Y they called in and helped me and S narrow down the photos a little more. Once we had eventually sorted out which pictures S wanted to order, she said her goodbyes and took Y to the nearest town to buy him the latest Lego Star Wars game - Little Prince will be so jealous!!

I then rang the Tyre Centre I usually use, and sorted out getting my bald tyres replaced. As the Tyre Centre doesn't book people in, you turn up and queue, left Princess Lollipop with her Daddy and Drama Teen and drove to the Tyre Centre on my own. There was quite a big queue, but the Tyre Centre head mechanic keeps it all straight in his head and knows who's turn it is, so I had a lovely relax listening to the radio :-) When my tyres had finally been fitted, balanced and whatever else you do to them lol, I drove back home.

Once home I rang Mr Messy at OUR shop to see what he wanted me to do. Our original plan had been for me to pick up Mrs LMS and Little Prince and drop Mrs LMS off at OUR shop, and pick Princess Lollipop up at the same time. However, Mrs LMS had no idea of this plan and was playing Lego Star Wars on the Playstation3 with Little Prince who wasn't even dressed!! Mr Messy agreed that as there were only a couple of hours till closing time, and the hassle it would cause to get Mrs LMS and Little Prince out to OUR shop and the fact that Princess Lollipop was fast asleep on OUR shop sofa, it would be better to wait till Princess Lollipop to wake up and just collect her. He rang me 3/4s of an hour later to let me know Princess Lollipop was finally awake, and I drove over to collect her.

When we got home again, Mrs LMS and Little Prince were still playing Lego Star Wars, and Princess Lollipop joined in with a non connected controller :-) Mrs LMS and Little Prince were getting grumpy and frustrated with the game, so I insisted they finished after that level, and had a break. Mrs LMS started to feel ill with a headache, so she took herself off for a nap. Mr Messy arrived moments later, and was a bit put out that he had to make his own cup of tea lol.

Little Prince and Princess Lollipop are currently having a crazy game of hide and seek, which isn't easy in the lounge with very few places to hide lol.

Friday

I had my car booked in for its MOT and dropped it off in the morning, the mechanic dropped me off at OUR shop, where Mr Messy had taken Princess Lollipop and Mrs LMS with him. I stayed at OUR shop with them until it was time to go and pick up Little Prince from school. I left Princess Lollipop with her Daddy and rushed home to pick up Little Prince's swimming bag, and then went round to school to collect him.

He had a great swimming lesson again, he is coming on so well at the moment. He is hugely improved at taking his shower and washing his hair after his lesson too. Before medication, he would tantrum and shout and make a huge fuss, and I almost had to hold him under the shower jet! Now he calmly shampoos his own hair and then rinses the soap off with no fuss whatsoever :-) I am so proud of him :-) We then went round to OUR shop, to see if the mechanic had called about my car - he hadn't :-( Neither me nor Mr Messy had his number on our mobiles, so I had to drive home with Mrs LMS and the littlies and find his number at home and ring him to see what was happening with my car. Apparently the MOT Test Centre had completed the Test, but forgotten to ring him until he checked with them! He was just on his way back to his own garage with my car. So then I called Mr Messy at OUR shop and said I could come and pick him up, he and Drama Teen were just having some chippie chips, so I waited a while and then went round to get him. Mr Messy dropped me off at the garage, where I was given the bad news - my car had failed its MOT :-( The worst was that it had two bald tyres!! I hadn't even realised!!

We had a quiet evening together watching TV. It was especially quiet as both littlies were in bed before 8pm!! We are so unused to Princess Lollipop going to sleep so early that by 9pm it felt like it must be midnight lol.

School pick up

Princess Lollipop decided she wanted to take her buggy and baby to school to pick up Little Prince, she wasn't too happy that we didn't walk all the way to school. But judging from her buggy driving skills once we got there I'm glad we didn't lol. She was veering all over the pavement and barely missing cars and parents!

When Little Prince came out of school he was carrying a huge jar full of sweets! Apparently there had been a "Guess how many sweets in the jar" competition and he'd won :-) He was so pleased with himself :-) He was also very possessive and said he wasn't sharing with Princess Lollipop - cue big tantrum from her!!

On the way home we parked at the village park, so that the kids could have a play in the lovely sunshine. Princess Lollipop wanted her buggy and baby to come to the park too, she threw another loud tantrum because I wouldn't let her push the buggy across the road! Given the state of her pushing skills, I wasn't taking that chance!! Once we were actually in the park, she cheered up. There was a little boy and his Mum already playing, so Princess Lollipop joined in, the little boy introduced himself and told us he was four. I'm not sure why but he kept calling Princess Lollipop "Sir"!!! I know she's bossy but still lol :-) It was funny to watch Princess Lollipop putting her baby on the swing and trying to push her :-) Then she found a stick and baby got abandoned while Princess Lollipop and the stick played on the slide for ages. Little Prince who had really enjoyed himself at the park yesterday, didn't have such a great time today. There was only one other child his age playing out, and she just followed him around and didn't really seem to play very much. He wanted to play with the older teens, who arrived for a game of football, but he was too small. So he spent his time mooching about in a bad mood, even so he still made a huge fuss about not wanting to go home !