#983 Friday 5 September

Kaylia has school sports day today .... she's quite pleased about it.  She carefully enunciates the sounds .... She even gets her faction name perfectly .... "Badgingarra"!!   The only downside is that they want parent spectators ..... Oh Yuck!!! That means me!

We've just watched a "school flash mob" .... cool ..... Kaylia did her usual thing of standing in the midst of the dancing crowd watching everyone else.

Later:  we're on the way home .... via the city... and we're at a different Bunnings.  This one has some intriguing games in the playground .... Kaylia is working them out.

#982 Wednesday 3 September

Sheesh ...... it's 2am ..... she's been awake for about an hour and she's waking up even more.  It time for the iPad and headphones because she's not going to sleep .... and neither are we. The lunar chart says that we're a few days before the full moon so her lack of sleep is right on pattern.

 Take that! ..... all you lunar sceptics!

I remain convinced that there's a direct correlation between her behaviour and the lunar cycles.  There's no scientific explanation for it .... but it is too clear to say that it doesn't exist.

.... and there is too much anecdotal support to ignore it. 

Does anyone have any ideas?

Morning ..... She slept after a while .... and after awhile I was able to cease listening for signs that she was waking again .... and sleep myself.

At breakfast time this morning a "bloggable event" occurred ..... each morning someone does her hair and so far it has always been either plaits or ponytails or a pigtail.  This morning she wanted something different ..... "Hollywood Number One" ..... this is the top-of-the-head sort of pigtail made by her bending over so her hair is all hanging down ... then the band is put on. Naomi usually does this on Sundays .... but this morning she just stood up and bent over! Very funny.

#981 Tuesday 2 September

We recently had reason to purchase one of these for the centre .... and I thought that Kaylia would probably like it too .... and it would be interesting to see her reactions.  This is her "Tumbler"

(Photo later)

It was at this point that Kaylia dissolved into a bout of ????? .... it lasted a while and was very upsetting .... and didn't stop till Naomi came home.

#980 Sunday 31 August

(Happy Birthday Anne!)

Kaylia's had a good night.   She's developing a strange little bedtime ritual .... she comes upstairs .... seems to settle ... and then bounces out of bed, rounds downstairs, thumps and yells for about 2 minutes .... the races back upstairs and settles properly.   She's a funny munchkin at times.

3:30pm. She's in the middle of a bad time .... something seems to be hurting her .... maybe .... but she can't tell us ... and we can only make very broad guesses .... we feel terrible ... we want to make it better for her but nothing seems to work.  

..... hold that .... in desperation I tried Ibuprofen and she has quietened .... we're hold our breath.

While all this is going on, we can't do anything ourselves.