hooray for progress!

Mikko started preschool in October 2010 and everytime without fail he has cried when I have dropped him off.................until this morning!!!!
Mikko's key worker at the ministry of education made him a book with photos all about his day at preschool. The first part of the booked tells about how he stays at preschool and Mummy goes home "Bye Mummy". Mikko loves the book and brings it to me to read at least 3-4 times a day (I spend a lot of my day reading to Mikko!).
So anyway, this morning we headed down to preschool. Mikko was clingy and little grizzly as usual and wanted me to hold him. But then when he saw one of his favourite teachers (Mrs Debbie) he looked me right in the eye and said "Bye!". Then I got to leave without him shedding a single tear :)
So big hooray for progress and big hooray for Mikko - well done little man!!!

And here is Mikko in the outfit he picked out for himself the other day. His wetsuit and his new gummies - nice one.

and watching the Princess and the Frog with Kasper

get a little closer boys you might miss something!

Sports Day

Finn had his first school sports day this morning. He wasn't the slightest bit interested in listening to the parent help or following any sort of instructions but did seem to be having a great time!
I watched for the first half whilst chasing after Mikko who can't seem to stay in one place and placating Kasper with snacks. I was pretty worn out by the time we got home!

Mikko update: Mikko has a SLT (speech language therapist) now. She'll mostly be working with his teacher aide (who he gets next term) and me so that we can help him. He seems to be doing well with his words lately.
We seem to be getting somewhere with his constipation also. He is back eating gluten and is soooo much happier and more responsive. He's now drinking oat milk (have I posted about that before?) and some brown rice milk. We are giving him quite a bit of juice with his water so his liquids intake has gone way up.
But for some reason his sleep has truned to custard and he wakes at 2am each morning full of beans and ready to party. - gahhhhh!!!! He does has a slight ear infection though so that could be why. Grommets are still in and clear though :)

Here are the boys eating dinner last night. As you can see Mikko was pretty tired thanks to his 2am partying.

Sundays

We started our Sunday with our usual walk along the estuary. There is a path on each side and soon it'll be linked up. We are planning on getting bikes and bike seats for when this happens :D For now though we walk it and often end up carrying the boys!

after walk refreshments

In the afternoon we headed up to my parent's place for a roast lamb lunch, swim and play.

Kasper's first 'tractor' ride