Australia Day

Every country has some sort of National day, but none celebrate like us Aussie's do on the 26th of January every year. AUSTRALIA DAY. Whether it be at the beach,having a BBQ or going to the Skyshow fireworks. With it being so hot here,42 degrees celcius we decided to stay home and enjoy our pool and air conditioning. Jayda has being quite reluctant to swim but today was the day she decided to swim by herself and she loved it. Her older sister has also become a lot more confident in the pool. We had our usual BBQ with lamb chops of course.

Children's TV Star

Jayda and Amelia had a chance to meet a TV Star called Jimmy Giggle. He is from the ABC show Giggle and Hoot. The girl's had no idea where they were going and were so surprised to see one of their TV idols. It was a very long wait, but the girl's were all smiles when it was their turn to have a photo taken with Jimmy Giggle and have their posters signed.

Amelia's 5th Birthday Party

On Sunday the 15th,January we had a pool party for Jayda's sister Amelia's 5th Birthday. This was the first year Amelia had invited friends so she was very excited. Amelia really wanted a guitar and she wasn't disappointed with her purple classical guitar. Tiff made Amelia a mermaid cake this year and it was another awesome cake. Amelia's friends came in the afternoon and you could not keep them out of the pool. We had a sausage sizzle for lunch,cut Amelia's cake and smashed the pinata. It was a great day.

Family Outings 2011

Well it has been some months since we have posted and quite a bit has been happening. We have been to the Perth Zoo,The Perth Royal Show and the beach. It was the first year Jayda went on any rides and she loved it unlike big sis who prefers her feet firmly on the ground. The zoo is always a good day out and both the girls love animals and the highlight was seeing one of the elephants doing all these exercises. The girls love the beach and we decided to go to the dog beach and take Poppet with us. I don't know who had more fun the dog or the girls. We then went and had fish and chips in Fremantle for lunch and visited Bon Scott's bronze statue.

Christmas 2011

Another year and another visit from Santa.The girls had their photo taken with Santa twice this year once together and the other with their new cousin Sienna. We also had a secret santa picnic with some of Amelia's friends from school. The girls were up early and they first wanted to see if Santa and his reindeer had eaten the treats left for them. Of course they weren't disappointed. Then time for them to open their presents. As usual Amelia is straight in there where as Jayda is a little more hesitant. They both had many presents under the tree but neither of them saw the black sheet in the lounge covering something else. When they took the sheet off and saw the new bikes for them they jumped straight on. It has taken Jayda about a week to get the hang of it and she loves it.

This year was the first time that we had Christmas lunch by ourselves,with the family getting together for dinner. We decided to keep it simple with a BBQ lunch and salad knowing what was coming for dinner.LOL. More presents were to be opened at Auntie Mel and Uncle Shannon's and we were quite surprised the girls stayed up as long as they did.

Jayda's progress

2011 was another big year for Jayda but not as hectic as the previous. Our main focus was Jayda's speech therapy. At the beginning of 2011 Jayda presented with a severe delay in expressive language skills but with age appropriate comprehension and understanding skills. As parents we knew Jayda had excellent comprehension quite beyond her years yet she was getting so frustrated at not getting it out verbally. Now Jayda uses many 2 and 3 word phrases,her vocabulary has really increased,she is counting and copying. We know all children develop at different times,but we know through the PHACE literature that speech and developmental delays happen and she will continue with her speech therapy. Jayda is a very bright and happy girl. She loves playing with her big sister(most of the time),swimming at the beach and riding her bike.

This year she will also start her laser therapy. Her Hemangioma has remained quite stable after being off Propranolol and is going through it's natural regression. There are days still that it becomes very noticeable and the weather and her mood pay a large part in this. As Jayda is also part of the PHACE Syndrome Registry we were recently sent the PHACE Syndrome Handbook, A guide for parents and physicians. It is great little book but the biggest surprise was a Happy Holidays photo from the authors of the book.

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