Ram slept late this morning again, so the Dxh arrived for Family Day before we had even got dressed! He got dogged by Arrow, who always seems so excited to see him, then settled down to a cup of tea while we got dressed.
We decided to sit in the garden while Ram had his breakfast of "warm bread and mingmite" He has very specific things he will eat, and very specific names for them. So no Marmite in this house, only mingmite!
It was almost too hot to do anything so we just sat around for a bit. We knew that it was the day to get the pool out but kept putting it off, sitting and chatting instead. I often use the time when the Dxh is here to consolidate education by having purposive conversation. In telling Dxh what we have been doing, it gives Ram a chance to go through other things and anything that he hasn't understood we can help him with in a gentle way, so that he doesn't feel that he is stupid. It also gives him practice in speech.
Ram has always been very verbal, but for a verbal child he doesn't have have a speech problem. He often can't get his words in the right order when he wants to tell someone about something, but can wax lyrical in monologue about Lego Bionicle!
Today was not a good day for conversation though. Ram just kept interrupting us, and when we pointed out what we were talking about he would just walk away, then come back and interrupt us again. He was in his own world and this carried on all day. He would walk around using random words that had nothing to do with any conversation going on at the time, and making strange noises.
We had another random interruption today to, from the Jackdaws. They fledged on Wednesday, and one of them still isn't flying off the ground! We watched him all day practising on Ram's assault course, hopping from tyre, to one level of climbing frame, across the climbing frame and up a level, and eventually to the lowest branch of our sycamore, then it would do it in reverse and we would watch him go back again. We could get up very close to it, and if the rest of its family was around we would be told off. We have named him Hopalong!
Finally in the afternoon we got the pool up. Ram at first sat there with his legs in, watching for wrinkles in the bottom so that we could pull them out before it filled up completely. Then as it got fuller, he got in a walked around. Finally he got bored with that and went right in! It is 10 foot in diameter, and this year we have got it on more level ground so that it is nearly three foot deep. It didn't fill until six o'clock so we didn't get a real swim.
After the Dxh went it was just time to water the garden, scour some Jacobs fleece (more about that another day) and get supper ready before Dr Who. This was the scariest one yet! Ram was really excited about it and and talked about how the less dramatic the monster is, the more scarier it is. He was still going on about it at bed time!
Afterwards, I went out to tidy and lock up the garage, just in case there was a thunder storm. I locked the big doors of the garage first, then went round to the pedestrian door. Just as I was turning the key in the lock, I heard a knock from the inside! It really startled me, and I didn't think 'who' was in the garage but 'what'! Of course it was Ram, but I guess I was more frightened by Dr Who than I realised!
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