Pulled pork bbq bucket fries.

Small in a display at Christmas lights show. Surrounded by props and foliage.

Small playing with smoke filled everlasting bubbles at the light show this evening. He is wearing a fluffy jacket, blue shorts and a Christmas hat.

Small and M walking in gi light show. Both wearing Christmas hats. Its dark, she is walking ahead of him dressed in black apart from sequin covered Christmas hat. Small is wearing a multi coloured fluffy jacket and purple sequin fluffy hat.

Super short run this evening to keep the RunuptoChristmas streak alive, after trip out at a Christmas lights show. Reminder that photos like this are a very small snapshot of life. #running #running2keepthecrazyaway #smallchildlife #Christmas #lights #snapshot #justamoment

Small, walking up towards the forum past St Peter Mancroft church to the lleft and the big wheel ahead.

Trip to Strangers hall, market pizza and a ride on the gallopers carousel. #smallchildlife #Norwich #norfolk #Christmas

Small two walking through some Christmas lights in shape of a present.

The forum and city hall looking lovely even in the rain.

The only 'selfie' allowed by teen. Our hands with Christmas lights above. My coat is dark, so is M's but small has a fluffy pastel coloured fleece on.

The Elves in cinema getting ready to watch the film. We saw Zootropolis 2. It was good but we are very excited by the advert we saw for the film of Faraway tree!

Little bits of joy, cinema with the Elves and Christmas lights. #smallchildlife #Christmas #elves

Simba the activity Elf, he is wearing a reindeer onsie and hanging on new star lights in living room window.

Christmas activity and breakfast treats brought by the Elf. The type of things we dont have the rest of thd year, pop tarts and chocolate cereal plus waffles, croissants. A lego set and jigsaw to begin building. Plus chocolates of course. Fairy lights drapped on the goodies.

Advent buckets hanging on the shelves in the living room. They are filled with chocolate and sweets one for each of the 4 kids. There are fault lights around the shelves. Each bucket has a peg clipped on with numbers 1-24.

The living room, the sensory end. You can see the new Christmas lights in thd window, 5 big neon stars, and then 6 chains of stars hanging down. There is a swing and a rope ladder, plus climbing ladder on the wall. To the left built in shelves with fairy lights where the advent buckets are hung. On the floor a peanut ball and wobble board.

The Elf has arrived bringing new lights & Christmas breakfast treats & activities. The countdown begins. Each day Simba the Elf will bring a simple fun craft activity, treat or even a suprise trip. #December #Elf #activities #smallchildlife #lights #joy #Christmas #Advent

Garmin screenshot of my run 8km.

Selfie at the end of my run. Its dark i am wearing a black running vest and a headtorch. I am holding legorunbuddy in thumb and forefinger out towards the camera.

Small in a cream fluffy jacket and purple shorts. He has the hood up and you can just see his grin as he crouches down to stroke a cat in the street.

Legorunbuddy and legorunkitten balanced on a street sign. Its dark but they are illuminated by my head torch.

Better late than not at all. Progressive 8km with slightly niggly lungs. Peak flow is quite low so suprised at how ok the pace felt tbh. A wander with small earlier for a bit of daily joy. #running2keepthecrazyaway #legorunbuddy #legorunkitten #running #keepgoing #eveningrun #smallchildlife

Three syringes with doses of calpol, 2 of 5ml and one of 2.5ml. The calpol is pink in the syringes, they are laying on dining room table along with a packet of mccoys flame grilled steak crisps. The tablecloth is the world map.

Poorly small means no Monday long run. Also parenting means keeping medicines safely away except when you have a PDA child & you casually leave calpol out on the table with a snack in the hope they might take it. 🤣 #norunning #smallchildlife #calpol #PDA

Small heading out onto the rooftop at Norwich castle, he is wearing grey t shirt & purple shorts. The sky is blue and he is taking in the view.

Small looking out at the view over towards Norwich market and city hall.

Inside looking down the staircase back towards the keep. Absolutely love the mix of old and new. It is stunning. Good luck to whoever has to clean all the glass though!

View from balcony in castle down into the keep. The projections were playing and you get such a good view from the balcony. Its brilliant. The images projected onto the walls of the keep telling the history.

Trip to @norwichcastle.bsky.social with small today. Our first visit since the keep reopened. Beyond cool. We loved it & will be back soon. #Norwich #castle #history #keep #lucky #smallchildlife

Sun setting over the fields. The light catching some little yellow flowers. The field stretches into the distance.

Small balancing on rocks like stepping stones over the stream.

Closer picture of small paddling, he has bare feet which are under the water. His hair hanging down covering his face. The bottom of the stream is gravel, the water is clear. The river bank in background.

View from in the river, small is walking across the river. There is a dog on the bank. The sky is orange/yellow as sun sets and its starting to draw in. There is a small white dog on the river bank and a pile of shoes.

Evening walk & paddle. Enjoyed watching the sunset whilst small had fun balancing, paddling, building dams & splashing. #Eveningwalk #paddle #sunset #smallchildlife

Selfie with myself and small. Grandad and M in the background looking at Lancaster bomber.

The Lancaster preparing to taxi.

M inside cockpit of a plane, I forget name of. But a smiling teen happy for a photo.. winning.

Small inside cockpit of plane, taken from inside looking up at him. Millions of switches and wires.

Trip to the Aviation heritage museum with Grandad. Small & the reluctant teen in AWE at seeing Lancaster bomber taxi on the runway. #smallchildlife #holiday #daytime #history #Lancaster #aviation

A selfie of myself and small sat on a train. Seats are red, we have table seats and we are playing Uno Small is laughing as he just gave me a pick up 4.

Train journeys mean Uno... there may be some rule twisting going on... #holidays #train #uno #smallchildlife

Small wearing purple shorts, a grey t shirt with his hair down its almost to his bum. He is hanging by one arm on a climbing frame, with a cargo net and slide in front of him. In distance are trees and the park is all grass.

Picnic time. You can see my knees and to my right is small sat on Picnic blanket eating crisps with a fork. There is a balance beam in front of us, we are in the shade of a large tree.

Small upside down on cargo net. His legs are straight up, feet hooked round cargo net. His hair hangs down and you can see front of his t shirt with axolotl on it.

Selfie myself and small. I am holding the phone and laughing, wearing black t shirt, sunglasses on my head. Small to my right doing a silly dance, we are on a VERY Wobbly balance beam and he is trying to make me fall off by wobbling it, he succeeded. His core strength is WAY better than mine you can see other bits of trim track and play equipment behind us.

Picnic & park trip with small. Cannot tell you how happy that has made me. #smallchildlife #park #play #picnic #fun

Bobbles black cat sat by a box of cornflour and he has dipped his head in and his face is covered.

Bobbles exploring the jug of water and tray of ooblek. There is a large red tray with a small white tray inside it which has very pale purple ooblek in it. Thee is also another white tray with purple madmattr to the left of the cat.

Bobbles the cat, paw in jug of water in the ooblek tray. Mad mattr to the left of him in another tray. Shortly after this Bobbles walked through the ooblek leaving little paw print through living room snd dining room.

Purple ooblek today & Bobbles had to join in 🤣 His face, like what?! #smallchildlife #ooblek #learning #play #kittensofbluesky #blackcat

Small long haired boy sat in chairs at the vets with a kitten either side of him in cat carrier

Small boy pulling trolley with two cat carriers in, down the road to the vets.

Delivering kittens to the vet this morning, both being spayed so that we don't end up with more kittens... feeling a bit sad we will have no kittens all day as it will feel odd without them in the house. #kittensofbluesky #kittensofjoy #kittens #vets #smallchildlife #Misty #Bobbles #siblings

Lego construction continuing to build the collection of speed champions.

Birthday cake, marble bundt cake with Misty kitten looking on before small blew out the candles.

Steak brunch, turned out the steak was not the best but thankfully the hash browns and eggs were good.

Kittens exploring the birthday presents.

Steak for brunch & lots of lego building for the birthday boy. #birthday #smallchildlife #cake #lego #kittens ##kittensofbluesky #kittensofjoy #lucky

Out with small, we visited Porche dealership just for fun. Small sprnt some birthday money, hence the toy gun 🙄my jumper says Overstimulated, yes always and there is the why 🤣

Why go down the stairs when you cam climb down the steeply angled wall... small long haired boy climbing down the outside of staircase.

Me, selfie in my fluffy jumper with both kittens asleep in my arm. Kittens of joy, Misty and Bobbles.

Bobbles having cuddles with M after school. That girl 😍

A day in pictures, cuddles with kittens, adventures with small, Film night with M & kittens. Time for an early night. #familylife #juggling #smallchildlife #sunshine #overstimulated #kittensofjoy #kittensofbluesky #blackcats #kittens #lucky #grateful

Small doing his side balancing tricks along the railway path.

Wallimg with small in town. New book, nose in as we leave the book shop.

Just chilling before cycling home. He quite liked the antique shop behind too. Some very intetesting things to be found!

Not at all an odd find in the antique shop.... the feet up round the head as the 'body' is bent double didn't make this resuscitation device look at all creepy?!

Trip out with small today, he has all the cycling skills. Picked up a new book that was meant to be for his birthday but he got it early. So nice to get out in the sunshine. #smallchildlife #cycling #books #antique #sunshine

Selfie with our 3d glasses at theatre.

Returning to our seats after the interval.

Cycling home. Getting to this point was a process.

Before start of show, awful Egyptians at Norwich theatre Royal.

Friday night treat, trip to theatre to see horrible histories Awful Egyptians. Loved it! Getting there/back was a process 😉 but small was a star & amazed me with all the facts he already knew about Egyptians. #theatre #history #smallchildlife #treat #norwichtheatreroyal #horriblehistories

Teen girl and small boy. Sometimes they get on! #boyswithlonghair

Treat time for small, pancakes but not as good as his big brother makes apparently.

Little signs of spring, looking for joy.

Legorunbuddy the view down the road at the end of a 2 mile rest day run.

Short & sweet 2 mile, rest day run this eve. A walk & end of half term treat for younger two. Plus signs of spring. Lots feels hard currently, but there is so much to be grateful for. #running2keepthecrazyaway #legorunbuddy #running ##mentalhealth #halfterm #lucky #treat #smallchildlife #dailyjoy

The kittens of joy. Misty and Bobble, therapy kittens.

The minute small sits down the kittens make a beeline for cuddles on his lap, they are like therapy kittens. #kittensofbluesky #kittensofjoy #misty #bobble #smallchildlife

Small boy trying on all the armour from gift shop in Norwich castle, shout out to genius that decided to make fabric swords, shields, axes, much safer for play!

Riding the roman chariot.

Learning about more torture techniques and how prisoners were treated.

Heading up to new entrance to Norwich castle, the glass ceiling is going to be so amazing once it's all finished.

Trip to Norwich castle yesterday afternoon, after a tricky morning it was good to get out with small, he loved the torture displays & is sad he isn't old enough to go on the dungeon tour. #Norwich #Castle #smallchildlife #torture

Exciting bedtime as we begin the 3rd book in the Wild Robot series. Small absolutely LOVES these and so do I. Already led to an interesting discussion about where the poison cd be from, humans/cargo ships is smalls 1st guess #bedtime #stories #reading #smallchildlife #wildrobot

Small boy, long hair, glasses, in purple shorts & coordinated t shirt holding bob kitten at the vets. Scale to the left. Small is smiling and doing great job supporting the kittens.

Small has placed Bob kitten on the vets table, vet is examining Misty kitten, the cat carrier is on the table, along with a blanket and weighing scales.

Kittens in cat carrier, they had smalls purple blanket as it is familiar and soft. They curled up together but we will need either a bigger carrier or one each as they won't both fit in for long.

Small sat on floor in waiting room at vets, he is peering in to the cat carrier to keep an eye on the kittens.

The kittens have a full bill of health, weigh 1.25kg each, and are vaccinated, microchiped and all booked for monthly flea/worming treatment. Small did a grand job of supporting them both through their first vet visit. #kittens #vets #smallchildlife #misty #bob

Sunset cycle with small, beautiful skies. No Mr Heron at the park today, but it was just good to get out. Simple things. #smallchildlife #cycling #sunset #eatonpark #norfolk

Another little run today before getting kids to school/college & then a day with small buying supplies, crafting, creating... then a 10pm dip in the ice bath. Tomorrow I will do that earlier! #running2keepthecrazyaway #legorunbuddy #running #smallchildlife #icebath

A Halloween fake gravestone & skeleton with a santa hat, fairy lights, tinsel and stocking added for festive cheer.

A paper star with tiny cut out star shaped holes, hanging in window with fairy lights inside it it is shining & you can see the reflection in the window.

A fake Halloween gravestone wearing an elf hat, with white beard and glasses added to the gravestone to make it look like it has a face.

We didn't take down ALL the Halloween decorations... small wanted to bling some up for Christmas..so we have festive gravestones in the front garden 🤣 #Christmas #fun #smallchildlife #fairylights #festive

Small child with long hair, wearing shorts, hanging from sensory swing, pulling on a rope attached to Swedish ladder.

Small child with long hair, climbing up Swedish ladder, using a rope for leverage. He is about to turn round to grab sensory swing hanging from hook on ceiling by the Swedish ladder.

Small child, upside down in sensory swing, his legs and feet are wrapped round the fabric holding his body weight, pulling himself up using rope attached to Swedish ladder.

Small child with long hair, upside down in sensory swing, legs bent and feet hooked round fabric of sensory swing. He has grabbed hold of rope attached to Swedish ladder and uses it to pull himself backwards and forwards.

Pre bedtime wind down with a boy with sensory needs. If only school could do the same...and yes I still have Halloween stickers on my living room windows.. past caring. 😂 #smallchildlife #unwind #sensoryneed #proprioception #vestibularinput

This boy 😍 capturing the moments... life is about the moments, including cuddles at the top of a climbing frane. Note to self platform DrsMartens do not make good climbing boots. #smallchildlife #play #fun #drmartens #sayyes

Can you tell I wasnt allowed to do Halloween as a kid... now doing Halloween with my own kids. 🤣🧡Will do inside decorations & pumpkins tomorrow. #Halloween #decorations #fun #smallchildlife

Scrolling back through summer photos, for a little bit of joy. But its also a stark reminder of how capable small is WHEN his needs are met! He thinks he is a failure but it's him who is being failed by the systems that should support him. #send #asd #pda #smallchildlife