I have to quote my daughter here. The comment she made was so innocent but so funny. Bear in mind Mother’s day is on Sunday.

“I am going to keep my card a secret”.

Bless her

Sorry it has been so long since I have written anything, I could try and come up with an interesting reason why, but the long and short of it was I forgot my user name and password, and I have been hunting for the email that contained it. As you can tell, finally I found it.

Lots has happened in the time I’ve been away. I can’t really go in to too much detail here, there are people who I can’t risk finding out about my plans, but suffice to say we are still not happy with Tabitha’s old pre-school.

Tabitha herself has now started walking more and more. She looks so cute while she is doing it. The problem now is getting her away from the walker she has been using, because although she can walk without it, she is a fair bit faster with it and so she still wants it. I’m sure the speed will come with practice, and then she’ll naturally drop it. She is doing very well at her new Pre-school too. They seem much better with her than the old setting.

In light of a number of things, the problems in the playground at the old place, and most importantly, because I became aware that Ellie wasn’t happy at school, we have now moved Ellie to the school we want Tabitha to go to. It took a bit of time, but I suddenly realised quite how unhappy Ellie was becoming at school, and I was very keen to put a stop to that. I couldn’t bear the thought that she was being turned off of school and education so soon after she started. I have to say, the move has gone very well. She is now a much happier child who is excited about what she is doing and is eager to learn again. My only regret is not noticing the problem before.

We had a very upsetting appointment on Wednesday. I had to take Tabitha to see the Craniofacial surgeons for the results of the CT scan we had done months and months ago. The news was very disturbing. I won’t go over it all, but they have decided there are so many anomalies they don’t want to touch her, and they have sent all the scans and the details up to Great Ormond Street to get them reviewed there. They told us to expect to have to take Tabs up there, a prospect which fills me with dread. Anyway, we are trying not to think to hard about it and the prognosis yet, until we know exactly what it is. Mind you, that is hard. We have everything crossed that Bristol just haven’t seen a child like Tabs before, but that GOSH will have, and so they will be able to tell us more. In the mean time, we wait for our appointment.