Wednesday 8th August – Olympigs & art work

T’s update first:

Today’s event was who can sprint to the grass the fastest? and again Bungle got another gold medal to secure his lead as he battles for Olympigs gold. George, who has hardly won a bronze yet, got silver again! Zippy got bronze and only one point as he totals 21 points. He and George are chasing Bungle for gold, but Zippy can overtake Bungle if he wins the next three events and Bungle losses them all, which is hardly unlikely to happen.

So, the grass was dropped in, and to be fair, Bungle did have a head start on George, making him the eventual winner. Zippy did peak out several times, but couldn’t find a way past his two opponents until the end. With only 4 days left, Zippy can still just win gold. Now, here are the results:
Bungle 26 points.
George 25 points
Zippy 21 points

The upcoming events:
Timetable:
Tomorrow- Sprint
Friday- who can chew the dandelion leaf the quickest?
Saturday- Who can eat a large bit of cucumber quickest?
Sunday- Who can run through a tube the fastest?- Medal ceremony- Closing ceremony.

London 2012:
I know the Paralympic games haven’t started yet, but, I was asked today by Mum if I would like to go and see some events at the Paralympic games!!!
The ceremony’s, table tennis, football and I think a few more as well.
Anyway, I think we might be watching a few events tonight, maybe some Athletics and other events.

Freshly cut grass chompers:

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T’s right, I have been looking at Paralympic tickets today. I know he would absolutely love to go, it’s just weighing all the pros & cons up. I presume if you buy a ticket for one event, they turf you out of the seat as soon as that event has finished? Or maybe take them up for the Team GB victory parade? Not sure, need to really consider it all.

If you haven’t looked, I’ve put a post up of some of D’s pictures. She always does happy, positive pictures and I think the ones I’ve included reflect that 😃.

Our day has been Busy, with a capital B. We had a couple of children over to play and more bodies/more noise equaled more anxiety for D. She spent her time going from participating D to overloaded D to withdrawing from the play D.

We did enjoy some time at a field near us – which had been freshly mowed, so much long grass cuttings left over (which provided today’s Olympigs event!)

She felt relaxed enough after the children had gone home to do a wonderful drawing, I love the detail:

Hope everyone’s had a good day, comments/RTs as ever welcomed, thanks for reading Jx 😘

Artwork by D

Updated with D’s comments

This post is for squag.com, who wanted art by artists with autism.

D is my 8 year old daughter with autism. She uses drawing and colouring as her relaxation tool. If there is a day when she refuses to draw/colour, you know there is something very very wrong.

Some of D’s drawings:

This is me, her Mumma:
(additional comment by D: I thought to draw that so you (J) can be happy and proud and think I’m the nicest girl in the world)

A freehand Dragon:
(additional comment by D: this is Spyro giving me (D) a ride and trying to burn evil boys)

D flying:
(additional comment by D: this is me (D) flying over the hill with angel wings)

D as a butterfly:
(additional comment by D: this is D the butterfly who comes in my dreams. Do you know why I dream about her? Because she can fly and she rescues me from the DVDs – one of her anxieties)

D and her brother:
(additional comment by D: this is me and T, it’s about when T and me become adults)

Animals and their babies:

Her favourite toy, Bunny:
(additional comment by D: that’s Bunny and there’s a drawing of her. Bunny is my favourite toy and in my dream, she comes to life)

D on a giraffe!
(additional comment by D: this is me riding my favourite wild animal, a giraffe)

D says she likes drawing because:
I like drawing because it’s fun. I learnt to draw when I was little.

I hope you enjoy looking at these lovely, positive pictures as much as we do!

Thanks for looking,
Jeannette aka @AutismMumma 😘

Squabbles & a kind moment

Grrr, this book causes squabbles amongst T and D:

It shouldn’t do, but it does. T likes to take it with him when we go out, D will see it, want to read it and that’s when the squabbling starts.

At home, she’ll ask if she can start reading it, he’ll begrudging say yes and she’ll end up going to her room with it and then put it under her pillow. Then he’ll take it back out when she doesn’t know etc etc. Any talk of sharing falls on deaf ears with this particular book.

I have ordered another copy from Amazon but it’s been delayed….can’t wait for it to arrive!

Yesterday whilst we were out, we stopped for a drink and T got out the book and said “you can read it, D, I brought it because I knew you’d want to read it”.

Awwww, he’s a fab brother sometimes (when they’re not squabbling), HURRY UP AMAZON!!