#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.

#1006 Saturday 4 October

It's been another day at  the office ..... while Kaylia sleeps in and then has a day of swimming.  Now .... evening ..... she is having a great time and I doubt that she will be going to bed anytime soon!  I think it's going to be a long night!

#1005 Friday 3 October

Up at 4am to go to the airport..... the aircon still isn't much chop and the room was slightly above comfortable last night.  It was cooler outside.

Once again there was no departure gate allocated for my flight.  I thought of writing a bit of feedback to the airport again ..... but the feedback booth had no paper or pens .... just rubbish on the counter!

Our favourite place .... Garuda Lounge .... appears to be in place again.  When the new terminal was opened, the lounge wasn't replaced .... a year later it is there ..... but sorry .... not open!

What a grumpy blog!  It'll be good to get home.









Home again
Kaylia (with Naomi and Kerrie) has been to the Royal Show.  She has been to the show before.... but it was very unsuccessfully because of the anxiety attacks.  She couldn't really enjoy it. 
And this time?  She had no anxiety ..... and she loved it! 
She had a ball .... literally!  There was a ride where she is inside an inflated ball (about 2m diameter) that was then floated in a large pool.  She LOVED it .... and she was very sneaky .... when the ride finished and she got out of the ball ..... she managed to sneak into the pool for a swim!!

Now we're home and she's in the bath.

#1004 Thursday 2 October

This time tomorrow I'll be eating breakfast at 10,000m .... on the home run ... Yay!  These trips are hard work.

This is the new kitchen sink ..... b&%^$ expensive but it was the only sink that would fit the hole.  It has a guarantee so we will be watching it closely.  The guys were working till 6:30 last night trying to seal the drain so it wouldn't leak inside the cupboard.

Now I'm waiting for two sets of guys to arrive .... the aircon man to hopefully fix the a/c properly   ( .... it was another hot night) .... and it must be fixed for the guests arriving on Saturday.

..... and waiting for the pest man to attend to the termite nest I found yesterday.



11:30 at Hardys .... I couldn't stand the waiting for people to arrive on Bali time ... so I retreated!  The aircon still isn't working so we now wait for the man to come back again.   ..... and waiting for the pest man too. .... waiting .... waiting

At Hardys I got some more DVDs for Kaylia .... she likes "Simpsons" at the moment .... so I rip them to MP4 and put them on her iPad.

12:30 Back at the villa.  The a/c man has been ..... the result is as I expected ..... when the guys replaced the a/c unit a month ago, they had put in a smaller capacity unit!  So this one is working ... but it just can't cool the room.  They are taking the old one to use parts to increase the capacity of the new one.  A bit dodgy but .... hey .... this is Bali!