Is It A Sign?

The weather has warmed up significantly here so we thought we would give the Home educators sports club another try, to see how my son's feet would cope with the extra activity. This time last year he had to have surgery on his feet, which you can read about here. After recovering he quite excitedly started playing sports in the late summer but had to quit at Christmas due to the huge amount of pain his feet were in afterwards, possibly due to the severely cold weather we had been having. We weren't absolutely sure what was causing it, but they improved greatly when he stopped playing sports. You can read all about the painful decision he made here.

We arrived early as there is a lovely park adjoining the sports club where all the children play before and after sports, and the little brothers and sisters who are too young to join in the sports club get to play together, which my daughter loves. There were many new faces here since the last time we came.

My daughter had a great time, she played on everything, many times over. I have had to be creative with the photographs as I didn't want to include the ones with other people on, in case anyone was offended, she is not really playing alone, in an empty park.

And when she felt like doing something a little more sedate, there were puzzles and games all over the park and little hidey holes to keep her amused.

My son had a wonderful time both playing sports and in the park afterwards too, he played some football then they tried out some field sports like javelin and the hammer, for juniors of course. He has said his feet hurt a little but not too much, hopefully a normal amount for the exercise he has done, but we will see how he is tomorrow before he decides whether to continue going to the club.

We are pleased he chose to try out the club again as we are due to return to the specialist very soon and we can provide him with an accurate report of our son's progress, and all the things he can and can't do. He has been having some problems but we do not know if they are related, we will find out next month hopefully.

A new challenge

  Today we went to our local home education group's sports club. "What's unusual about that?" I hear you say... well 6 months ago my son (then aged 5) had surgery on both of his feet and was in casts for 3 weeks. I find that amazing and fully intend to update you all soon with a post just covering his journey...but today he played football.

 
   He did not show any interest in playing football at all until he watched the world cup over this summer, and when we heard there maybe some free spaces at the sports club he jumped at the chance to try. Today was the free trial session to see how things went. Luckily, he loved playing and he suffered no pain in his feet. It was quite unusual for us to see him playing football as his previous sporting interests were more sedate like golf. We were more likely to find him to talking about dinosaurs, pokemon or falling asleep with a book.

   
   He is definitely planning on going again and we are happy he has the chance to.