A small but very helpful victory for us - for the last few months James hasn't wanted to swallow tablets so we've had to crush them up and mix them with his vitamin syrup. His steroids he has to take (for 5 days a month now) are very bitter and he hated the taste...

But since Monday he's been taking them coated in syrup and washed down with juice... making the amount of time to mix them up and persuade him to take them a lot less.

Also we took Charis to the paediatrician yesterday as she wanted to check if there was some ongoing problem that had been interfering with her sleep ... the go

I found PyToddler recently and had James having lots of fun moving crayons round the screen and trying to make a mouse eat some cheese and say "Yum yum yum yum yum" - great watching him say "Go over there mouse!" and trying to encourage him to move the actual mouse (as in the computer-type one, not the rodent-type one). Just the kind of thing I wanted to write... the annoying thing in teaching James letters is that it's easier to learn lower-case letters but computer keyboards are all usually decorated with upper-case ones. Once we get to Japan we'll have plenty else to worry about :-)

You can download it from here although its a bit awkward - separate downloads for Python and PyGame and then you have to unzip PyToddler.zip - but worth it for the fun :-)