Nathan has perfected his own method of making paper darts. It's been cool seeing the progression over the past year as he randomly makes them. For ages he'd ask me to make them, then he'd direct me on what to do and then his own attempts were all about doing it himself but without the skill to get the folds right and then a few weeks back he just "got it" and realised he had the skill and that the folded sides need to be symmetrical.

Nathan's right into helping me prepare dinner these days - maybe motivated by being hungry and wanting food *right now* due to the steroids, but it's also a means of connecting and since he's often busy it's a nice time to have a wee chat.

This evening as we sat down to read some books, Nathan remembered that a week or so back he had wanted to copy one of the books onto his own paper but must have gotten distracted. So off he trotted and wrote out a few pages and drew a picture underneath. His writing is quite fluent now and seems to come much easier for him.

We hired out a new DVD a few days back and Nathan had requested Narnia which we had out last year some time. So he's been reabsorbed in that and taking note of things that he hadn't noticed before.

He's planned out tomorrow already - sewing something, sowing some seeds into his own garden plot and just hanging out at home. He's become a real homebody since being on the medication - seems to have lost the desire to be out and about for long. Makes it tricky for his mama and sister who like to have some outside interaction for longer than 30mins, but makes a change from the boy who used to be obsessed with being out of the home constantly and who I've been working on this with for the past year or so.