#1011 Saturday 11 October

It's 5am and she's been awake for an hour.  She went down stairs for a while and is back .... she seems to be trying to sleep.

#1010 Thursday 9 October

Another change ..... In the past Kaylia's bedtime routine has been that we would all watch ABCforKids ..... and then when the adult program started she would insist that one of us went upstairs to bed with her ..... since I was usually asleep in my chair, that task fell to me.  Over the past few days she's begun going off to bed on her own ..... and I follow when I'm ready.  It's a much better routine.

We missed the red moon last night .... by the time the moon was visible above the tree line and the high valley edge,   the eclipse was over and it was a normal full moon.

 (So if there were any Triffids, we will survive!)

Bedtime

A funny thing happened tonight ..... we were clowning round with singing and I brought out a mouth organ .... Kaylia took it from me and began to blow .... and Teddy immediately began howling! I don't know whether the howling was a protest ... or if he was joining in .... but it was quite a moment.

#1009 Wednesday 8 October

I'm watching the little miss as she has hose time.   She's been talking a lot about "Doctor Who"..... I finally worked out that she's referring to our GP Dr Law ..... and she's not asking for the Doctor .... she just wants to talk about the things that Dr Law does!  She checks my heart .... she listens to my chest.

It's clear that much of Kaylia's nagging is actually her attempt to socialise.

#1008 Tuesday 7 October

It's 11:17pm .... I've just roused for my phone buzzing... to find that the sound was from Kaylia ....  not the phone!

#1007 Monday 7 October

It's post tea time ..... she wanted to watch her new Peppa Pig DVD ..... but then turned the TV off and went upstairs.  I went up a short time ago to check ..... and she was dancing on the bed and watching herself in the mirror!  She's having a great time!

During tea time something happened ... I forget what it was .... but she'd done something funny and we were all laughing  ... she could clearly understand the situation and she was joining in the laughter.   It was such a "normal" moment .... so good.   The improvements we're seeing are very good.  She is enjoying life even more now ..... over the past six months I have been talking about how good things are at present .... but now things seem to be getting even better.  It's great!




This afternoon I was able to grab an hour of shed time ....thanks Kerrie! ...... and I put the final assembly touches to the gantry crane that I've been building.  It's now operational.

The hoist is mounted under a "carriage" which rolls across the beam .... and the beam rolls  along channels attached to the roof trusses .... so it can lift an object anywhere within an area of about 9 square metres of the shed floor.