Proud Mummy

Noah is hard work sometimes

• When he throws his food on the floor
• When he takes an hour to eat a small dinner
  
• When he pulls everything out after I have just put it away
• When he eats books
• When he tips his cup upside down and gets his drink all over the carpet

But these are things that most children do at some stage don't they?

However there are lots of occasions when all of the above just fade into the background because of the little things he does which make me so proud to be his mum.

• When he brings over a toy to show his brother even though Finley is too small to play with it at the moment.
  

• When I go to collect him from pre-school and he is brought out to me, his little face lights up when he sees me and I get down to his level to say hi and he comes really close and gives me a kiss very delicately. He is just so sweet.
  

• I went into pre-school to collect him today and Jo who is his specialist support assistant, she had been there all day with him watching him and working with him, told me he had done really well. He had got 12 out of 15 verbs correct. He had done really well with the Jolly Phonic cards, he had been posting shapes through trial and error and doing puzzles, he did not throw any items and worked really hard for about 40 minutes. Jo told me that Noah was approaching the other children at pre-school to play with them, which is really lovely to hear. I am so proud of him, when I hear things like this it just spurs me on to continue helping Noah learn.

• This evening we went out for a meal and for the first time we left Noah on a big chair, at home we have a booster seat for him or when we go out we get a high chair. But he sat on the big chair and behaved whilst eating, didn't throw any of his food (which he normally does when we go out) he looked so grown up and acted really grown up.
  

I cant believe how fast the last 3 years have gone, Noah surprises me every day with little things he does. These are such small milestones for other children but are extremely big hurdles for Noah but he manages to overcome them every day. My baby is growing up.