End of an era

Well that’s it; Primary school is finished for Ben.  Who would have thought all those years ago when I first dropped Ben off for his first day with his walker & splints on that he would be independently walking out by himself and been on ONE AMAZING JOURNEY. 

Ben has changed so much since, and in many many ways – the last 3 years have been the hardest by far. But as always Ben take it all in his stride!

We wish to thank every teacher & teaching assistant that has helped him along his school life.

Mrs McClean, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Martin, Mrs Pratt (Caz) Mr Smith

Mrs Rodley & Mrs Bullock – Mrs Clarke, Mrs Ambler, Mrs Cawood

Miss Celli – Miss Allen, Mrs Bates, Mrs Lowe, Miss Laycock

Miss Hetherton – Mrs Poad, Mrs Tate, Miss Dennison (aka Otchel)

Miss Taylor – Mrs Jenner, Mrs Fischbach

Mrs Buckley – Mrs Fox

Mr Marsh & Mrs Robinson ----- To name but a few ---- THANK YOU xx

Autumn 2008

Summer 2012

And so the summer is finally here, well the weather seems to have forgotten.  Ben is loving his new found independence which has enable him to go into town with his friends & also thanks to his swimming achievement s I now feel confident to let him go to the Lido – Which he loves!

So we find ourselves in a very familiar place – looking at packed bags nervously check & re checking ticket & passports.  But this time it’s different, we are heading back to a very special place – St Louis.  This time the anxiety has gone it’s going to be more of an exciting time and we can’t wait to see everyone again.  We are also introducing Grandma Linda & Grandad Rob to our very special place St Louis & they will get to meet the great man himself – Dr Park.

We had always planned to go back & see Dr Park and his team it was just about the timing, so we made the decision in the early part of this year to make the journey back to St Louis for a number of reasons.  We have had no end of problems trying to get suitable foot orthics for Ben and fail until very recently thanks to the great team at TayCare in Leeds.  But we want the experts to give us there opinions so we can move forward as we now know Ben will always need some sort of foot support whether it is a splint – SMO (small ankle splint) or insert.   So we hope they will help us make the right decision for Ben’s future. 

Secondly we always planned to go back to see St Louis in the summer as it was such a beautiful place and will always have a special place in our heart.  We decided to combine it all with our summer holiday. 

I will try to blog a few times while we are there to fill you all in on our adventures – one thing is for sure it going to AMAZING...

A very special place!

More from across the pond later!!

Charlotte XX