#983 Friday 5 September

Kaylia has school sports day today .... she's quite pleased about it.  She carefully enunciates the sounds .... She even gets her faction name perfectly .... "Badgingarra"!!   The only downside is that they want parent spectators ..... Oh Yuck!!! That means me!

We've just watched a "school flash mob" .... cool ..... Kaylia did her usual thing of standing in the midst of the dancing crowd watching everyone else.

Later:  we're on the way home .... via the city... and we're at a different Bunnings.  This one has some intriguing games in the playground .... Kaylia is working them out.

#982 Wednesday 3 September

Sheesh ...... it's 2am ..... she's been awake for about an hour and she's waking up even more.  It time for the iPad and headphones because she's not going to sleep .... and neither are we. The lunar chart says that we're a few days before the full moon so her lack of sleep is right on pattern.

 Take that! ..... all you lunar sceptics!

I remain convinced that there's a direct correlation between her behaviour and the lunar cycles.  There's no scientific explanation for it .... but it is too clear to say that it doesn't exist.

.... and there is too much anecdotal support to ignore it. 

Does anyone have any ideas?

Morning ..... She slept after a while .... and after awhile I was able to cease listening for signs that she was waking again .... and sleep myself.

At breakfast time this morning a "bloggable event" occurred ..... each morning someone does her hair and so far it has always been either plaits or ponytails or a pigtail.  This morning she wanted something different ..... "Hollywood Number One" ..... this is the top-of-the-head sort of pigtail made by her bending over so her hair is all hanging down ... then the band is put on. Naomi usually does this on Sundays .... but this morning she just stood up and bent over! Very funny.

#981 Tuesday 2 September

We recently had reason to purchase one of these for the centre .... and I thought that Kaylia would probably like it too .... and it would be interesting to see her reactions.  This is her "Tumbler"

(Photo later)

It was at this point that Kaylia dissolved into a bout of ????? .... it lasted a while and was very upsetting .... and didn't stop till Naomi came home.

#980 Sunday 31 August

(Happy Birthday Anne!)

Kaylia's had a good night.   She's developing a strange little bedtime ritual .... she comes upstairs .... seems to settle ... and then bounces out of bed, rounds downstairs, thumps and yells for about 2 minutes .... the races back upstairs and settles properly.   She's a funny munchkin at times.

3:30pm. She's in the middle of a bad time .... something seems to be hurting her .... maybe .... but she can't tell us ... and we can only make very broad guesses .... we feel terrible ... we want to make it better for her but nothing seems to work.  

..... hold that .... in desperation I tried Ibuprofen and she has quietened .... we're hold our breath.

While all this is going on, we can't do anything ourselves.

#979 Saturday 30 August

It's been a good night.  Kaylia was tired last night after lots of swimming ..... she took herself off to bed and slept.

Today Kerrie is taking her on the train..... and this is what they found in the city!

Cool eh?

Later:  we've had a lot of rain in the past day .... and this afternoon I noticed that a drainage system that I had built 10 years ago is actually flowing for the first time.

The past 10 years have been so dry that the drains have not been needed.

#978 Thursday 28 August

4:30am and it's another wet bed. I misread the signs .... and thought "I'll wait .... she's not restless enough."

I won't make that mistake again.

8pm. Naomi is home again and Kaylia is very happy.   Despite having her favorite person back she still had an anxiety attack this afternoon that required a lot of TLC to get her through.  She was asking about "HOLIDAY!!!" as usual .... and at one point, Naomi asked her "Which is best?  Holiday or Mummy?"  .... the answer..... "MUMMY!!!"

#977 Wednesday 27 August

It's 5am .... she's been up for a while.  It's been an unsettled night .... story time didn't happen because the wifi at the villa had failed   .... then there was a wet bed at 11pm ..... then, after a wee run at 4am, she hasn't settled again.  Ah well .....

10:30am  .... and she didn't settle again!  She was up and down till shower time .... she would come up and warm her ice cold legs against me .... then back downstairs again!  Needless to say neither of us slept much.  Once in the shower, she wanted a cold shower!!  Brrr!

Kerrie did her "ice bucket challenge" ..... Brrrr!  This challenge is raising funds for research into ALS .... and there's an interesting twist here .... I've been looking into the biochemistry of the effect of the levels of free glutamate in our diet .... and it impacts on ALS as well as autism .... and many other disorders.  There seems to be a real "trail to follow" in this.  There are many confirming incidental factors without any conflicts.  Stay posted.

We're all looking forward to Naomi's return tomorrow.





In the meantime ..... this is at Statham Quarry nearby in Boya ....