What Is a Car??? And other inane questions

Today Mr 5 had his assessment for PSD funding today, the psychologist was a very nice fellow who really related well with Mr 5. We did the test at the Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Special School which is a great, friendly, "homey" type of school full of smiling faces and happy sounds.
Some of the questions were strange..What is a car? "Has wheels" was the response. How many legs on a cow? "seben (7)" whilst holding up three fingers. What colour are leaves? "ellow" then he changed his answer to "gween". The matching of the block patterns went fine until he had to match patterns from bi colored blocks then it got hard. The picture matching went ok, but he thought a fork and a paint palette go together, and a car is the same as a boat, as well as other strange match offs. At the 1/2 hour mark he wanted to go and was fidgety, the marking of the same lines/circle into the same shape (copying) was a task, as he has yet to master a proper pencil grip, he managed a line and a half in the allocated time frame...Good,bad or indifferent...Don't ask me.

The fellow gave me a Vineland test for completion by Mr 5's EIP co ordinator which will be done in conjunction with myself. Usually the child's pre school teacher would do it but given that his teacher has left and the new one has only been there 2 weeks...The co ordinator and I will complete it. This , together, with the cognitive testing carried out today will help decided if he is allowed to attend the special school parttime. Our hope is that he deviates enough from the "dream line " of 68-71 in his scores to allow the assessor to mark him down accordingly. The average of all the scores are compiled to a mean score....Given that the reason we want him at the special school is to augment and not facilitate his entire formal education goes in our favor a bit, I hope. If he was scoring too high in the test we would not have been given the Vineland test for completion ,I am told ,so there is hope.

Mr Almost 3 has diarrhea, not really bad ,but suffice to say that everythings passing through within a few hours of digestion. I think it is gardia (not for the weak stomached)as Miss 8 had it as a baby and it needs a prescription...But the doctor who diagnosed it in Miss 8 was an "old school" doc who knew by the smell and nappy contents what is was. But now, if it persists, I will need to get "samples" and even freeze some of them (don't even ask how I do this, you just don't wanna know) just to find out what an "old school" doctor with many years experience could tell me in one consultation. Not taking anything away from "newbie" doctors, but I think a lot more older docs could take on the teacher/mentor role and teach the "newbies" a lot that the text books and labs cannot. There should be incentives for them to do this and incentives for the "newbies" to stay on learning from the "old hands" rather than running out to start money spinning "super clinics" where they don't even know the patients name. Just me venting, sorry folks.

Snape....you've got to be kidding???

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My Darlings Art work Term 2..ain't it great!!!  

Still pouring....

Figuratively speaking of course..Last time it poured here was February. We have had some rain but need lots more over many years to bring us out of the drought conditions and the primary industries back in line with the CPI. Primary producers have lost out big time and when they raise their prices to meet the market cost..They are being greedy. Trouble is, unlike two generations ago when every family had some of them still "on the land", it is very rare to meet someone from a farming family now unless they live in a cattle/dairy/ sheep/wheat/whatever area. I know people look at me a bit odd when I say I was on a farm until the age of 10 and I still enjoy working on my family's properties. Maybe I'm just weird or just know where my roots are and I respect where I come from.

Speaking of pouring...Mr Almost 3 had worsened and threw up on Monday night (Do not read on if offended by spew stories) And he says "Oh, no not again" Again??? What ??? There's more??? I think. I ask him whilst cleaning him up (Dad was cleaning the floor) "were you sick before?" "oh. No not again" is the response.
So we're going on a spew hunt, a spew hunt, going on a spew hunt to try and find some spew....SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "GOING ON A BEAR HUNT"
Hey if you don't laugh about it you cry...OK
Any way after searching all places possible, toy boxes, book shelves,under beds, in beds...There was no more...So it was a wild spew chase :)
He also had a temperature of 38.6 yesterday so after another chuck and some really ,really bad diarrhea and even worse flatulence combined with the coughing..We headed off to the doctors to get him checked out. There's gastro about apparently (DUUUUUUH) and his glands are up (least he is not prone to ear infections as Mr 5 was) and his eczema is running rampant with him being ill...Great. If he's not better in a week, he has to go back for tests. This is because 23 months ago when he was a bub, he had diarrhea for 6 weeks and no reason was found, no bug, no viral infection, zilch. So now if he gets it they only wait a week before they start tests.

Today, after 12 plus hours of sleep and a massive chuck yesterday afternoon and various other bodily expulsions I will not go into detail of...My bubby has awoken asking for chocolate. What the...? I gave him toast with Vegemite for breakfast and watered down apple juice. Now he is eating some dry biscuits and cheese. And still asking for chocolate......

Tomorrow ,Mr 5 is "tested" by the Department Of Education for funding for his primary school education. If he succeed in passing above the require level, he'll get nothing...But we will use the test results and give them to the CEO (Catholic Education Office) and he may get some help via the school he will attend if he doesn't make it into the Specialist school on a part time basis. It's refreshing to see in the forum of Dyspraxia Support Group a few mums of older kids giving genuine reassurance and hope to the mums who are struggling with the day to day stuff and the trauma and ,sometimes, joy of the diagnosis.

It never rains, it pours.....

Just when you are laughing up your sleeve at every one else with sick kids (because yours are all SOOOO healthy and rarely get ill, yeah right)..It happens. Mr 2 Almost 3 has a cough and runny nose; it's know as post nasal drip, the mucus runs down the back of the throat causing a cough..TOO MUCH INFORMATION..BAD LUCK!!! Miss 8 who never is ill, came home Friday from school..Did not want to go swimming !!!!! And had a headache and fever and chills and stayed in her PJ's all Saturday and even slept for part of the day. She was a little better yesterday but it is now at 0900 and she's still asleep (12plus hours now) and I guess there's no school for her today. I will have to get her up soon as Mr 5 has EIP at 1100 and kinder at 1300. And as the great mums of the know all, be all committee have deemed fruit duty defunct effective TODAY, I have to get to the shops to get Mr 5 something interesting for his snack...I will get him pistachio nuts as they are good for his fine motor skills ( and it will piss off some of the parents whose kids don't eat nuts) But hey, if you take away fruit and the tongs..I have to replace it with something he can practice his fine motor on, don't I ? And you'd be denying him the practice if you complain.

Thursday is Mr 5's assessment for PSD (Program for Student with disabilities) he will miss his AM kinder session but he should be OK as this psychologist has a good reputation. I will be interested to see how he goes....His EIP co ordinator and SP don't think his cognitive level is low enough to get him into the Specialist school..Ideally he'd do a part time enrollment..3 days there and 2 at mainstream.

I also have to try and organise Mr Supamums paper work so he can get his tax done this week. He has papers every where and will try and find them 10 mins before he has to leave. So I will enlist him in sorting out stuff tonight..Hopefully. I'm also trying to get quotes for a new garage door and auto open system. What is it with companies, they think you are going to buy from them without getting additional quotes?? So many will not quote unless you are going to give them the job and the others stuff you about with times to come and quote. So any one who wants to quote a garage door and auto open system, leave a message in the comments box. So I am everywhere and no where today.