2nd teste descended today

Well, I'm back home now after not such a long day, but a very early rise. Papa fetched mummy and I from home and drove us to hospital. I didn't really know what was going on but I handled the preparation for surgery very well. The nurses didn't frighten me like they usually do at times. We went for a long walk to a room and the last thing I remember before waking up was drawing mummy and papa pictures, I was aware of a funny smell but It didn't bother me too much. I started getting tired and couldn't draw at all, I lost all strength.

Next thing I woke up in a strange room and my throat was very dry and I was so thirsty. Mummy and papa came and i sat on mummy's lap, but I was so disorientated I was trashing about a lot. I just didn't want to calm down, only managed to when we were back at the ward and eventually fell asleep for an hour and a half. When I woke up I was right as rain. I had some water to drink and mummy let me eat her lunch, it was yummy! After that I went for a wee in the toilet, I told mummy and papa how much I loved them and had a little walk around the ward. I was allowed to go home an hour later. I'm doing so fine and feeling great. Hopefully that'll be the last general anaesthetic for years to come.. touch wood.

HALLO!

How much effort does it take to say hallo to me if I say hallo to you? When mummy takes me to nursery on the bus I greet the bus driver first, they always greet me back. Then I say hallo to the passengers, there are never very many at that time of the morning. It works like this, if i say hallo to someone and they say hallo back, we pretty much say hallo to each other for the entire journey.. repetition and all that. But sometimes I say hallo and they don't reply, they ignore me. So I say it a little bit louder because maybe they didn't hear me the first time... they ignore me again? So I shout, as loud as I can .. H-A-L-L-O!!!!! And guess what? They say hallo back. But I don't bother saying it again, not with those types anyway.

Bed time..

.. is different now at mummy's home. I've slept in my very own bed for 2 nights. I've always slept with mummy or papa because I've not been very good at self-soothing, it stems from the tube feeding days.. and think mummy secretly liked having me close to her. I love to have human contact too. Well, for the past two nights I've been in my very own bed. The first night I went to sleep very quickly because I was tired, but woke up 10 minutes later, and then every 10 minutes after that until around 9.30pm when i fell asleep. Woke up at 1am and went through to mummy's bed and spent the rest of the night with her. Last night I went to bed with winnie the pooh. I slept right through to 5am before I went to look for mummy. I like my room and my bed and I'm rather proud of myself. I'm going to be 4 in July so about time I did this, at least I know I can always climb in with mummy if I want to. Think next time though I'll sleep with upsey daisy.

Kings of Leon

Ooooooooh ooooooooooh, i bought a papaya!!!!!

I'm a lyric king!

The secret garden

I can count to 10

It's no big deal but mama and papa seem to think it is, I surprised them. I can count to 10, easy peasy lemon squeezy. I do wish they would stop underestimating me.

I'll do it!

I am highly motivated at the moment. I want to do it all. I want to take my jacket off myself, using the zip... I want to put my shoes on, I want to tie my shoelaces and I want to start using the toilet soon. These things are all a bit tricky but the important thing is I WANT to learn how to do them, so therefore, I will.

Night night

When I go for an afternoon sleep I say 'night, night' even though I know it's day time. I say 'night, night' to all of my favourite things.
'night, night football'
'night, night Mr Tumble'
'night, night Bob the builder'
'night, night higgledy piggledy house'
'night, night papa'
'night, night mummy'

Not a happy bunny

I went to Great Ormond Street Hospital today to have a testes check up. One was descended a while ago, and now the other needs to be done as well. I'm confused, they assumed the other would descend naturally... how can they just assume that? I now have to have another general anaesthetic. It'll be in March and I know I'll be scared because I'm much more aware now. At least mama and papa will be with me when I smell the funny gas that puts me to sleep.

My holiday in Italy

I'm sorry I've not blogged for so long. I've been busy having too much fun! I'm back from Italy now and had the most brilliant time with papa, nonno, nonna and elisa. I loved flying in an aeroplane and I loved the snow. Nonno and nonna gave me a guitar for christmas... it's the real deal! I love it.

I get to celebrate Christmas twice!

Yep, I'm a lucky boy. I get to celebrate twice. Tonight I celebrated with mama. She let me choose a christmas tree... I don't think I realised what I was in for though. When we brought it home it terrified me, it was much bigger than me and kept falling over. I thought it would smother mama, but it didn't. She decorated it with little mirror balls, silver pinecones and pretty red lights. It didn't look so scary after that. Emma and Simon came over and made some mulled wine, then I got to open my pressies. I got a scooter and a sportacus outfit. When I put the outfit on I got right into character and attempted handstands and flick-flacks! The scooter was a bit tricky but i'll get the hang of it. I got lots of other little presents which I'll enjoy playing with when I get back from Italy. I go to Italy Christmas eve with papa. I'm so excited to see nonna, nonno and elisa. I talk about it all the time, but I'll miss mama and reckon she'll miss me too.

Rock star in the making

i'm back! things i like....

I love playing with straws (still!)
I love saying 'hallo mummy' and wrapping my arms around her thighs.
I am so gonna be a rock star. As soon as i find the cable for the camera i'm going to put my video up on here.
I love people. I'm so social and love having mummy's mates around. I've just met lindy for the first time. i love lindy. i love scott too and emma and dawnus.
I'm happy to be back and looking forward to blogging some more. I've been a tad lax lately cos it went private.. and I'm sorry. I've made it safer on here now, so there are no important details about my life if someone wanted to find me.

Speech assessment

I'm about 10 months delayed in speech overall. I'm making good progress, here's my report. Mama and papa are very proud of me.

Attention and Listening- stayed engaged in all the table top activities I wanted for 20 mins+, we had the room to ourselves. When getting restless accepted 1-2 minute breaks and then back to the table. Visual attention for assessment pictures/booklet a strength.

Social interaction: happy to come with me but started asking for the other children outside- which I was pleased about – asking for other children, not distracting himself by wanting to go to another adult. When really proud he had done something he called out “Yusuf look” when Yusuf had come into the background of the room.

Expression: coming on leaps and bounds in this area. More and more spontaneous 3-4 word phrase phrases, all very appropriate “say bye bye Dora” as soon as I suggested packing up the dolls (which included a Dora the explorer doll– who he has asked “who’s this?”). Using Negatives “no, not this”, labelling pictures, showing all the vocab teaching you have done, using plurals, -ing endings answering what, where , and yes/no questions. When Luca didn’t know the correct name he offered his own pillow, Luca: “oh sleepy head”. So overall on the assessment I used (Preschool Language Scales – 3) Luca demonstrated all skills in the 24-29 mths range and developing skills (half of the items passed) in the 30-35mths range. Given in August 07 his age equivalent was 13mths – I am pleased with this progress.

Comprehension: again showing pleasing progress. Understanding spatial concepts in, on, off, full range of body parts (and proud of it!) developing pronouns ie. “give it to me, give it to him, one for you, developing quantity – understood Give me …‘all’, ‘one’, ‘the rest’. Not sure of ‘some’

Recognizing actions in pictures e.g. where’s blowing?. Luca understands what objects are used for e.g. “which one can you ride?” Luca using lots of gesture to keep me entertained and keep my attention on him. Similarly on the receptive language parts of the assessment (Preschool Language Scales – 3) Luca demonstrated all skills in the 24-29 mths range and most skills in the 30-35mths range. Given in August 07 his age equivalent was 14mths – I am pleased with this progress.

Speech

Oh wow, I'm starting to talk, and quite well at that. All of a sudden words are starting to pour out of me. It's great... I find it's less frustrating for me now, so don't have to push others to get their attention! It's taken me a little while to get here but so worth the wait. I have a lovely little voice and can't wait to have proper chats with mummy and papa.

I wanna be a rock star!

Air guitar is my thing at the moment. I love music and singing along to the tunes. I don't have a real guitar so every evening i go to the kitchen drawer and choose a spoon of some sort. My fave one is the pasta spoon, followed by the salad spoon, followed by the wooden spoon... and last, but not least.. the serving spoon. They all make for great guitars. I strum on them, stamp my feet, jump up and down, dance and sing (the spoons also double up as microphones), all the while shouting 'mama look!'

I'm so gonna be a rock star when i grow up.

IEP

Mummy and papa saw nursery today for my IEP. I'm meeting all my targets and they all said how well i'm doing. I'm due to move into the big room soon but they're going to hold off until January... I'm doing so well where I am and am starting to form new relationships so why change a good thing?

I'm loving to play fight at the moment.. but I don't know when to stop. I am sensitive to other people's feelings but I get so ahead of myself and excited sometimes, I need to learn when i'm being too much.

Some pictures from Italy

I'm going private...

it's not because I don't want you reading about me and about how well i'm doing, I just want to be safe. I know that I've given lots of mummys hope over the past couple of years, because i've proved most of the doctor's wrong.. haven't i? If i know you, or my mummy or papa knows you, please message me through my profile, you can click on 'email me'... I'll send you a password to access my blog in the future. I'll be doing this in about a week. :-)

If we don't know you we won't give you a password. I'm sorry... but it's all good in my life now so this blog is going to be about celebrating that and I think my friends should do that with me rather than the whole world.

I'm back and mummy's the word!

I've been back since monday... it's good to see mummy again. I call her that now, instead of mama. When i first saw her i ran up to her and shouted 'mummy, mummy' and gave her the biggest cuddle, mummy burst into tears.. but i think they were happy tears, not sad ones. I had such an amazing time with papa in italy, wow! I'll upload some pics very very soon.