J has a new saying. He is repeating over and over again. It sounds quite rude and I cannot figure out where he has heard it.
He says "oooooooo yes oh yes, oooooooooooooooh yes oh yes". Yet another embarrassing little thing he does that people must think has come from our home, but it most definately does not!

He is also back to ear fiddling again and getting distressed about it. He has dug the skin so much in the outer ear that he has made it bleed. I have blogged before about the experience we endured at the Dr surgery when his ear was irritating him. If he needs a more thorough examination we will need several people helping to hold him down and to be frank the nurses at my surgery are of a certain age and look like they need a meal - not a good recipe for a giant 9 year old boy, frightened out of his skin and kicking and head butting around.

I am thinking of making the upstairs family bathroom more like a wetroom as he just loves splashing his bath water everywhere and I now have a bucket positioned in the kitchen below where the water always leaks through a certain point in the ceiling. I want to go fully tiled, not the half tiled half paint (for which he loves to pen his ink drawings on too ). I'm hoping to seal the floor properly and make it much more autism friendly.

The downstairs shower room is also a possibility but it backs on to the utility room and it's more of a guest shower room than a general family bathroom.

As I type this I am watching him wander round the garden with a piece of garden hose held up, one end to his mouth and the other end to his (good) ear. He is muttering his usual ramblings and sayings from childrens television shoes, and looks very happy, enjoying this lovely warm October weather we are experiencing.