Was today. He had a lovely time. The picture of us all in his birthday post was actually from today. Can you tell Katie was very excited? She sang Happy Birthday many times and was just in love with the presents, balloons, CAKE!!! Jack did very well with the wrapping paper and doing his signs for "thank you".
It was a little awkward. Only my side of the family were there. My parents are divorced, my dad is remarried. My mother "still loves" my dad after all of these years so there was a little atmosphere and didn't look very happy. She was a totally different person when it was all over. This is the only time they see each other and having 3 kids now, there are obviously more birthdays and it kind of makes me want to just do separate things, but that is a pain. I did think my dad was a bit silly to have my step-nephew (2) sing "Sandy" to Jack. He wouldn't have done it deliberately, but I was cringing a bit when my dad is singing with him when she was in the room -
"Sandy can't you see, I'm in misery
we made a start, now we're apart,
there's nothing left for me
love has flown, all alone
I sit and wonder whyyy oh why
you left me oh Sandy".
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Jack has also done very, very well in the car this weekend. Since he is more motivated by praise from his teachers than us, we're introducing a reward system whereby if he is good at home and doesn't cry in the car, getting dressed, shops etc, he gets a star that he takes to school and they really go to town with congratulating him. I don't think it will be long before he makes the connection so hopefully we will see some improvement. I haven't tested it in the shops yet, but the car was definitely a much more pleasant experience. We were even stuck in traffic and had to wait quite a long time to pick up a delivery and he was ok!
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