Stuff With Thing

Kinder duty at Heidi’s 3yo class yesterday - was photo day. Lots of fun. Annie befriended another autistic child in the group and spent her time running around with them holding hands and getting the occasional hug. Amazing, it is the most positive interaction I’ve seen from this child … actually it is the most interaction I’ve seen this child have with another person. Don’t know what it is about Annie but she does seem to just know the right approach to take.

Kinder duty today at Annie’s 4yo class, Hubby had the day off so we all went to Kinder. Heidi was screaming by the time we got home, put her in bed with a drink of milk and special blankie and she was asleep within minutes. Way too much stimulation in 4yo class for her.

Kinder duty tomorrow at Annie’s 4yo class again. SIL L is going to take Heidi home with her. Is Annie’s birthday tomorrow. We are making up gift bags to hand out at Kinder - each child will get a notebook, pencil, balloon, bubble mix and sticker sheet - all inside a brown paper lunch bag decorated by Annie. Got everything at the Reject Shop and works out just under $2 for each bag, notebooks were the killer, couldn’t get them under $1 each.

I’m so proud of Annie she asked if it was okay to use her pocket money to buy gifts to hand out to the 4 children in Heidi’s early intervention class tomorrow morning. Awww. We found these cool sensory toys for $2 each and they can go inside a brown paper lunch bag also. Checked with the teacher and she said none of the children in the group should be traumatised by brown paper bags or the toy we chose. Hard to tell when getting stuff for children with sensory issues but Annie wanted to celebrate by giving gifts to everyone.

Heidi keeps walking up to us, holding her blanket out and saying “cuddle me”. What she wants is to be wrapped up in her blanket (sort of like a burkah, with just the eye hole). If you make the mistake of picking Heidi up for a cuddle she says “put down me”. Such cute language mixups.

Annie made everyone mini pizzas for lunch today - I got all the ingredients out on the table in little containers and Annie put the pizzas together. Daddys job was to put them in the oven and get them out. Which would have helped if A) I remember to turn the oven on. B) when I finally did turn it on set it to the correct temperature.

Time to go make pear upside down cake with Annie for desert after her birthday dinner of pancakes. Health eating day for us

Hopefully this blog entry makes sense - I keep re-reading it and seeing words I’ve typed totally wrong. Like when I wrote ‘class’ up above, I actually wrote ‘call’ both times. And other silly mistakes like that. Well it was random thoughts so maybe my head is getting in on the act with random word substitution.

Oh and one final random thought. Tuesday night last night which means our weekly dinner with my father-in-law. He spent much of the time ranting about how our esteemed prime minister Kevin Rudd is going to be the next Hitler. This because Mr Rudds picture is in the newspaper every day. Ummm he is the leader of our country I’d be surprised if he didn’t get mentioned in the papers frequently. Ahh the joys of the generation gap and the political divide meeting over dinner once a week.