my big surprise

yesterday or maybe it was the day before i'm getting disorientated [you do on night duty]; had the little family drop in. kez unwell and i think clinically depressed. she went off to doctors and i thought i was in for another bout of watching the kids reduce my home to rubble. man, i was wrong! jayjay suddenly decided to help nanny and went into the junk room. i expected him to take out a few bits; but then i could hear all this huge busyness....no sign of boys in immediate vicinity.....and watched while these three tiny boys simply cleared out, swept and tidied that junkroom in 35 minutes. all i did was sweep up the mess on my hall carpet!! he even put tv in new place, put bike out etc!! of course reecey really just got in the way of anything deadly all the time, but i watched jayjay be the responsible big brother and look out for reecey and even confer with justin on logistics. another couple of firsts right there. so my chest swelled with pride. told them how impressed i was; they are Good Workers. and the boys are 8. 5. and 2 respectively!! of course this means they get proper pay as work like that properly deserves; so payday might be a busy day....but i can't tell you how proud i am of these kids. justin has been in a film about reading books for the school. and jayjay is on the school council he was voted in by a landslide! because by himself he got up and made an impassioned speech about the earth and proposed an Insect Friendly garden....the kids overjoyed[although i rather suspect the female teachers are looking for employment elsewhere] but these are all great steps forward. and he's so desperate to read and write. i think justin learning so quickly is upsetting him. i really must sit down with him and explain about Asperges Autism to him. he can learn; what the kids a little genius in his way...of course he can!! but needs 1-1 teaching from very beginning every sigle day...at last he begins to see that reading and writing backwards [used to be upside down!!] is what s causing him to be unable...and the very naughty behaviour is all part of it too. yet he does this.

and reecey? can't talk. but looks like a little angel. one day the girls will be dropping in door to play with reecey by regiments... well i've gone on a bit. but i love them; i'm so proud. they will have good lives, i swear it.