I know many are sick to death of 2011, but I can look back fondly, it has been a good year for my little family in the most part.
Rye, Rye turning 4 on the 1st January 2011.
Wonderful friends rallying around to ensure Rye had the birthday tea he wanted - complete with a snowman cake (hidden under the gold paper)
His drawings becoming more detailed.
Better definition of colour.
The joy of flowers.
Fun, games and dress up.
Beautiful geometric patterns
Lots of celebration fires, this year.
Lots of crafting.
Enjoying lazy days playing in the sun.
Enjoying the Coastal Park.
Home made playdough
Days at the beach.
Days out with friends.
Marvellous sand play
More park play
Celebrating festivals with friends.
And with the sweet there's always the sour. The pain and grief of a lost brother.
Safari Trips at a local zoo.
Constant improvements with drawing and writing.
Learning to read
Gaining more and more confidence in physcial abilities.
Exploring new places with friends (GP mama meet)
Lovely days out with likeminded folk.
Learning to ride a bicycle.
Only took about five/ten minutes to get the hang of it.
A birthday gift to myself, and bikes rides with Rye.
More celebrating of festivals.
The wonder of water fountains.
Many more beach days.
Learning to write.
Our first camping trip.
And pagan festival.
Renewing old friendships and making new ones.
And no year would be complete without puddle jumping.
Making new friends, and the home ed group growing from strength to strength.
Evening romps in fountains.
Forest walks (and getting a little lost)
Home Ed trips to castles
Fabulous toadstool paintings.
Crazy dress up.
And Forest School, this has been excellent.
Duplo makes an appearance..
Halloween.
Hot chocolate and marshmellows.
Learning new skills.
Our home ed group now hires a youth centre once a month. Such a fabulous space.
Winter crafting in prep for Yule 2011.
Trips out to feed ducks and collect pinecones for more winter crafting and activities to lead up to Yule.
Trips to museums and astonishing finds.
This sparked a huge scaletrix love affair!
Yule chocolate cookies.
The first house I think I've ever seen Rye draw.
And Yule itself.
Then illness struck.
And so this year Christmas was celebrated at home, with the wonderful help of amazing and generous friends, who donated gifts to Santa for Rye, and welcomed us into their home to enjoy lots of lovely christmas food and family fun.
There has also been tears over Rye's quirks being more than quirks and then coming back to acceptance that regardless of any official diagnosis, these traits are still Rye's quirks; and they are a part of what makes the whole of Rye so utterly delightful and scrumptious.
He'll never stop being my gorgeously little baby.
