We have had a good week, barring Arley having one massive and quite traumatic meltdown when I left the house to take a walk - I wasn't there to calm him, so it escalated fast and was pretty awful for both him and Jeffrey. Arley's behaviour specialist came over on Wednesday and has given us some techniques to use going forward, so hopefully these will help.
On Friday Arley's support worker Rob was ill, so I took the opportunity to take the kids to the beach at Kawana. We found a park we hadn't been to, so the kids had a good play there first. We then went and played on the beach - the kids made me do running races with them. I am the tallest and easily the slowest, and Arley is the shortest and easily the fastest. Plus my legs were aching for two days afterwards! It was a lovely morning though.
On Saturday we had 'family sports day' at the neighbourhood park. We are going to try to do this more often, because it gets us all moving, and it is just around the corner so Arley doesn't get too stressed out. We took a soccer ball and goals, a basketball, a handball, and a baseball and bat, so we had plenty of choice. Jeffrey started teaching Carmie how to play soccer. Arley played baseball with me, with lots of breaks in between. We are not pushing him, and letting him sit out as much as he wants, because I've realised this is the only way to do anything with him - very slowly!
Carmie and I went to Taekwon Do on Monday and Wednesday evenings, and we also had our private lesson on Tuesday with Arley. The great news is that Arley earned his yellow stripe, so now he is the same rank as Carmie and me. I can tell he is proud, but he doesn't want me to tell anyone, and he was really down-playing it. Our instructor, Mr Kelly, is basically devising a program just for Arley, and we are both really excited about it. The improvement in Arley's attitude and confidence in the lessons is amazing. I really think this could be one of the best things for him.
On Tuesday afternoon I took the kids back to horse riding, and Arley rode again, which is great. Carmie rode her horse Chilli for ages, and was all smiles. The lessons are quite drawn out because they include a lot of grooming and horse care, so we spend quite a bit of time there. Arley can only take so much, so he goes on his iPad for a bit, but Carmie loves it.
Today we were supposed to go to the homeschool meet at Bokarina, but none of us felt like it, so we flaked out. Sometimes it's just got to be a home day, you know?
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