#1018 Sunday 19 October

Kaylia was trying out the "new" Pilates bench today...... she seemed to like it.  Kerrie tried it too.

We raised the head to the maximum height and it makes you work really hard.

#1017 Saturday 18 October

Happy birthday Naomi!  The plan is to have a celebratory "nosh up" at Alfred's Kitchen in Guildford ..... followed by tummies at the Junction Icecreamery.

The school commented yesterday ..... via Kerrie ..... "Whatever you're doing with Kaylia at the moment.... keep it up" They have noticed an improvement  in behaviour. This is more evidence that the change in diet is having a good effect.

Afternoon:  hose time..... at times it is very hard to imagine the path Kaylia's development will take.  Some of her behaviours are so far off centre that I wonder what will happen.  We can only keep caring for her as best we can.

Midnight:   The day changed plans .... the wild storms missed us but still meant that the weather was no good for eating outdoors.  So we changed to our favourite pizzas from Mundaring.  Kaylia was funny .... we relaxed and allowed her  to have a Fanta at 4pm.  At 8:30pm she was still high on it.  A session of playing with a torch under the blankets finally did the trick and put her to sleep.

#1016 Friday 17 October

Last night Kaylia, Kerrie and I went shopping ..... and Kaylia got the giggles!  Can you imagine walking round the aisles with a giggling gertie?  Fortunately the "checkout chick" was the parent of a very auty teenager .... and she was very understanding.

It was hole digging time for me yesterday ..... and concrete mixing .... preparing the footings for an extra roofed area at the side of the shed.

#1015 Wednesday 16 October

It's 4:30am ..... Kaylia's wet the bed and can't settle back to sleep ..... so I'm trying a slightly different strategy.   She's in her bed downstairs with instructions that it's sleep time.  We'll see what happens.

Evening:  the strategy worked quite well and she stayed in her bed for a while.

Her day at school was good .... as always! Then it was Whiteman Park afterward.

The re-vamped Pilates bench is now operational.  Instead of being at floor level, it's now at a comfortable sitting height and can be adjusted for angle .... so you're working against gravity when exercising.

#1014 Tuesday 14 October

Kaylia was so excited to be going back to school!  It's such a pleasure to see her like this.

As part of our program to reduce processed foods in our diet, we have bought a fruit "ice cream" maker .... It arrived today and we tried it tonight.

It's great!  With just fruit, it produces a really yummy creamy sorbet.  Delicious

#1013 Monday 13 October

Kaylia has been to the beach at Hillarys today .... the weather was good for it .... now she's in the bath after having hose-time.

Kerry and I were on the balcony and saw the large black lizard again.

By comparison with the door sill, it can be estimated that he's about 600mm long.  I think it's the same lizard which I included in the blog on 5th April 2012 and again on 3rd February 2013   ..... it was much smaller then.  So it would now be about 3 years old and it's probably adult size.

#1012 Sunday 12 October

Gee she's noisy!  While we adults try to watch TV in the evening,  Kaylia is usually bouncing round the room with a dingle-dangle ..... very happy and very noisy!  She likes to be where we are.

I'll try recording a bit of audio and put it in the blog so you can see what I mean.

Today is Sunday .... the routine is ..... pancakes .... Aunty Moo's ..... maybe Aunty Max's

Evening .... the routine was varied by a hospital visit. Naomi's father is in hospital so it was visiting time for Naomi while I took Kaylia off for a drive .... to Fremantle and back.  The home.  Then it was "hose time" and "shed time".  I'm just about finished an 'update' to my Pilates exercise bench.  I was taken by some benches being sold on Ebay and I worked out that rather than spending $$$$$ on one of those, I could use my current bench to create a "new improved model"  ..... I've used parts of a weights bench and made some new parts ..... the end result is a bench that is raised off the floor and which can be adjusted for angle.