#1924 Saturday 1 December

She's in the bath!

Later.... I can remember that I was about to add something here.... but it obviously didn't get added.... and I can't remember what it was.

#1923 Friday 30 November

Kaylia is having a restless night so I've been downstairs to settle her... or try to! I gave her "the talk" about how she has to have a 'big sleep'...... now I wait a while to see if it has worked.  If not, I go down again and stay with her till she sleeps.    She's a gorgeous thing but she's hard work at times.

#1922 Wednesday 28 November

We began an exciting new thing with Kaylia yesterday.... Pilates exercises.  Since the brace has finished it's role in helping her kyphosis, the next strategy is to establish a habit of targeted exercises.  Naomi will take Kaylia to weekly classes and reinforce them with home exercises.
Kaylia calls it the "body doctor"!

#1921 Sunday 25 November

Kaylia has had a good weekend .... all routine!  Routine is so important for her.


Yesterday she wanted "PICTURES!"  .... this means that we sit at the computer and look through all her favorite photos. 

This time it was the videos of her swimming lessons in September 2007 .... she watched every single one of the videos .... and there were lots.  All the time we were watching, she was in a state of high excitement with lots of hand-flapping and facial expressions.  It's good that there are things which give her such joy.

#1920 Friday 23 November

Going out to an evening of Pink Floyd

We had a night out for the first time in a year or so ...

... to see a cover band "The Dark Side" playing the music of Pink Floyd.  The band was really top rate and it was an excellent night.

.... and this little beauty belongs to Casey's friend Tim.  I think that Minis are a wonderful car.

This one is an excellent example .... it even has air conditioning fitted.

#1919 Thursday 22 November

The daily refrain of "School tomorrow?" continues ..... and "Bali at Christmas?" ..... the constant refrain is a function of anxiety rather than a real question.  We handle it by an initial agreement and confirmation ..... but then she will nag and nag.  So we say "Enough!" and she stops.  At that point I try to go in to her and we have a little story time about what happens with going to school ... and what is going to happen when we go to Bali.  We're not game to begin an actual countdown to Bali departure.... that will probably start in December.

Here's a scary thought ......

..... an idiot like this with all that power!  Scary


The building project is still in the planning stage .... there's no point in starting just before I go away for a month ..... so I'm 'fiddling' with levels and tape measures.

#1918 Saturday 17 November

Teddy the escape artist!

I've been gradually making changes between the main house and the "Bungalow" ..... and as I change things, Teddy 'dogs' my steps and looks to see if there is any way that he can escape.  He has escaped again this morning ..... only to be returned by Jason!  Fortunately our neighbours quite enjoy Teddy so they always have him for a while before bringing him back.
Teddy is booked in for his summer haircut on Monday.

The changes I'm working on will eventually join the bungalow and the main house under one roof.  It's a big project and as usual I'm trying to find free or recycled materials for the work.

 

This is a self initiated drawing by Kaylia ..... done this morning.  When asked "Who is it?" she responded "Mummy."