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We've got Charlottes yearly review on Tuesday next week. Our appointment time is 9:15 so I have got to get my eldest daughter to school and then get to the hospital that is 10 miles away through rush hour traffic for 9:00 then try to find a parking spot which isn't the easiest thing in our hospital. Just for the paed to turn around and say...

Well finaly it arrived Charlottes first day at school or should I say morning. She was up at 6:30 ready for school at 7:30 waiting to go she couldn't wait. I thought she was going to be clingy and crying but she went in with no problems just about got a wave out of her before she went in. Not at all like she was when she started nursery. I was...

We went to buy Charlottes school shoes a few days ago at clarkes the shop assistant was really helpful I told him that she had specialy made innersole and that she needed to have it in her shoes all the time. So he measured her feet and on her left side she is a 10 and a half on her right she is a 9 and a half which used to be only a half size...

We finaly got Charlottes gait plate 2 weeks ago and she hates it. It's supposed to get her to walk 10-2 but it has not made any difference at all she still walks left foot outwards and her right foot inwards we've got to go back on the 11th september so will ask if they can do anything else. I thought it would take her a few days to get...

So much has happened since my last entry. Charlotte had an appointment at the hospital to see if she needed botox injections or an operation the consultant said there was nothing he could do at the moment. He was disgusted that she hasn't had any physio since before chrstmas. Then she had a boot clinic appointment on the same day and...

We got back from holiday yesterday Charlotte woke up yesterday morning with yet another cold. I know we didn't have great weather down in bognor regis but i think it was the fact that she wanted to go swimming everday. Which she loved trying to swim kicking her legs but not quite getting anywhere but she enjoyed it all the same. not much more...

Well I spoke to Charlottes headteacher yesterday and she was really helpful, she told me to keep her updated on how Charlotte is doing and said that they do a group called Beam where they take a group of kids out into the hall and do exercise like balancing and stretches which sounded really good. She said they would put her in it as soon as she...

I had Charlotte at the doctors today she has got a black eye!
She was outside playing yesterday with the other kids in my road when they decided to climb a tree. Charlotte was standing underneath when one of the kids swung his legs down and kicked her in the face and cut it she looked just like a boxer.Her eye started to close up so I thought...

Well the cough and cold that Charlotte has I think is hayfever aswell as a cough as I have started giving her piriton and it has started to get better. It's also the first day of half term being that it's a baker day so have got my elder daughter home aswell at least I didn't have to rush around thismorning and get up to early tomorrow...

Well it's Wednesday morning and I'm shattered Charlotte has got a cough and cold and has decided to stop sleeping.
Thank god it's half term next week i might be able to catch up with some sleep then. It's like having a newborn again. She's going to nursery this afternoon which she is starting to hate as she can't wait to...