Mountain Board Conquered...

Yeah, not really ;) But, I've stood on it and not fallen over... Does that count?

Blessings,

Joshua at the Skate park...

Russell and I on our little walk...

Joshua getting ready to jump. :)

Just about hitting that jump :)

In Warwick we have a great skate park that the boys love to go to. Today was Joshua's turn on his own... Most of the time that we were there he was either on his own on it or there was only one other child there too... He had a great time. At first he was a little scared as he had not been there for a while and needed the confidence to give it a real go. He was scared of the jumps...

Russell and I went for a walk and left him to it. We knew that he was safe. By the time we got back from our little walk he had it done and dusted. He was bursting with pride and loved showing off his re found skills... Was lovely to watch him. He was also the only one that didn't take a break from riding...

In the end we left as there were little toddlers being let on by their parents and allot of others turned up. Was great that we got there early and that he had plenty of time to try out whatever he wanted to. :)

Cheers Damaris

Tannymorel Sports Day has arrived...

Joshua ready for a great day. :)

Joshua competing in the 800m running race...

Well today was the day!!! Joshua had trouble sleeping last night as he was just too excited. He wanted the Sports Day to be last night and not have to wait...

I took a couple of extras and we got to Yangan State School just before 8am. Boy was it cold... In the car it was lovely and warm but outside it was freezing... Russell poured heaps of water on my car windows in order to get rid of the thick layer of frost. Was lovely to see everything a tinge white. :)

We help set up the shade cover and Joshua got ready for his first race... 800m. He got 4th Place so did really well... There were only a handful of schools competing this year. The last two years we had more schools I am sure. One school only had 6 kids in their school... We didn't do much better at 14 but we sure gave it our best shot. :)

Joshua's end results were:

1st - Ball games
2nd - High jump - 1.06m
2nd - Long jump
2nd - 100m sprints.

Very proud of him. He did soooo well. Our school also got the overall points Shield as well. Well done everyone. :) You kids ROCK!!!

Cheers Damaris

Archery update...

Joshua doing his stuff, before the real target was completed...

Both the boys and Russell have really taken to the sport. They are off again this morning to go for more practice and lessons. They are enjoying it and finding it very rewarding. Timothy is turning out to be a little less interested then the other two though. Don't know what to do about that one. He was soooooo anxious to get his gear and now that he has it he is only interested for a little while and then just comes back inside. Annoying really.

Russell threatened to sell his gear this morning as he had asked if he HAD to go to Warwick with them to do Archery. He is wanting to be on the computer. I realise this is his safety zone but I need him outta there as well as I am redoing his room at the moment and don't need him under my feet. So what to do... Russell and Joshua are enjoying it immensely but Timothy is very 'whatever' about it. I know another trait of AS but is annoying all the same. We will see in time I guess and worst comes to worst we can just sell his stuff... So fickle. If only I could get into that head of his and find out what he is really thinking. So hard to get him to explain why he reacts certain ways. But is getting better all the same too which is good to see...

Cheers Damaris