Beatrix Potter Tales

I do adore these if you'd care to look. Feel my creative photography's taken a bit of a back seat so out we went in the wagon. I guess I enjoy these moments because they're the antithesis to the every day lives we lead.

Another crazy day. And because we can't park where we did before in the disabled lot, I found another space, took the boys out, didn't notice the Service Elevator sign, was met upon reaching the 3rd floor with the worst smell I've ever encountered, to which Callum jumped out of the stroller and starting crying uncontrollably, whereupon we were met by a man in a lab coat wearing a face mask which could have doubled as a gas mask on account of the toxic smell, who ushered us, now running with said double stroller, down the corrider to the correct elevator to escape the smell. Heave ho, I so nearly did. Callum took a good deal of calming, Reuben has no sense of smell (missing olfactory nerve) and thus was nonplussed by the experience save seeing the man with the lab coat and gas mask. What on Earth is going on in the laboratories below the school at UCLA? Heaven knows.

I sneakily videoed me and the boys during Opening and Closing Circle Times and was delighted to have that record. Reuben was engaging, signing and speaking more and more. Without a nurse for Reuben, I need to stay without shouting reach of the classroom in case for a blockage in his trach which isn't an easy thing with Callum in tow. And for mealtimes when I or the nurse would normally tube feed Reuben, I had to rely on one of the mums, who did kindly offer, to take Callum. Working through a 100 word picture book for Callum, I was charmed and delighted to see him either signing or saying each of the words, "tat, tat" being "cat", "fingers up to eyes being the correct sign for owl, sweetly accompanied by sound effects, and everything involving water being "wet". And there were definitely exciting "tats' in this book for him at which he takes a sharp excited intake of breathe.

So when school was over, I found an alternative way out of the building, Signing Time came on in the car, I opened my newly delivered Mother's Day present of a Flip HD video (very nice), I read a few books to the boys were intent on beating each other up (Reuben's getting back to full strength for sure - bump on Callum's head due to Reuben's overly enthusiastic push yesterday) and out came the Radio Flyer Wagon to the vacant corner lot with flowers.