#1269 Saturday 13 February

I'm at the airport..... waiting for a 5:30 flight ... I walked past the food area and noted that all foods are double the street prices .... then I walked past the alcohol sales area .... I asked and was told that the alcohol prices are much cheaper than the street price.   I'm  puzzled by this .... why is an addictive drug cheaper yet normal food is greatly overpriced.  

#1268 Friday 12 February

It's going to be very good when one day we can communicate well enough with Kaylia that we can ask her why she does things!  

For instance she leaves little piles of dingle- dangles in strategic spots on the floor ...... ???? ..... She doesn't pay any further attention to them and she doesn't notice their removal ..... why?  ..... and it's always a combination of items.   Very strange.

#1267 Thursday 11 February

Kaylia works very hard at her speech ..... she still struggles but we often coach her through the problem sounds and she watches intently.   The other night she was wanting "Classical Baby Dance " on YouTube ..... classical comes out as a sort of "kwa-hi-ku" .... so we work on the tongue movement needed to get an L sound.   She listens very hard and after a couple of tries, she gets it!  Another one she struggles with is "splish-splash".

Jade comes back from Bali this morning..... She's missed out on our record breaking heat wave.

#1266 Tuesday 9 February

It's been a bad night .... Kaylia woke at 2am and didn't go back to sleep till 6am. I think I'll have to have a snooze today.

#1265 Monday 8 February

At bedtime last night Kaylia was so excited about going to school the next day ..... it took her ages to come back to earth and settle down to sleep.  ..... I can't use threats of "You won't be able to go to school!" etc...... I just keep talking her down and she eventually settles.

It's wonderful that she is enjoying school so much .... it's going to make a huge difference to her life in future years.

In the past few days we've had several bottles of cider explode!  For this brew I used some bottles that I got on "Freebies" and the bottles are clearly a bit old ..... the bottom of the bottle blows out.   It's a very nice tasting brew of cider ..... Hannah would love it.  Callum and Hannah are in New York at present .... almost home to UK.
April is pleased .... she has wanted a second job to save money .... and she has landed one on Friday and Saturday nights.  Now we just need to find a job for Jade.

Evening:
Kaylia's love/hate relationship with Teddy continues ..... I realised that we had run out of dog food so I asked Kaylia if she'd like to go for a car ride.  YES she says.  Then I say "We need to go and buy some food for Teddy."  Her immediate response is NO! .... and she stayed home.