We have had a really nice week. Georgia and Zach arrived on Sunday and are staying nearby, and Zachy is settling in to the university here. Georgia is staying another week to make sure he is settling in OK. We have seen them most days, including lunch today out at Cafe Vie in Buderim. It is really nice having family up here, and I'm glad it will be happening more often.
The kids are doing well. Arley in particular is having a great week. He seems to have turned a bit of a corner, and is now getting himself ready in the mornings without incident, which means I am back at the gym. He hasn't taken his ADHD meds at all, and he has been concentrating fairly well. He did much better at Taekwon Do this week - not as well as when medicated, but still good. He is also eating much more too, which is such a relief. Carmie, on the other hand, is eating like a bird, and so much junk food, so it is now my mission to fix her diet as well. It can only help. She had a couple of nights this week with little sleep - one was on Tuesday night, so she didn't feel up to going to her social group, wolfpack, on Wednesday. Incidentally, I found her sleep med on the floor, which is why she didn't sleep!
On Saturday we had our friends Andrea and Cav over for drinks, as well as Chayse. He plays so well with both Carmie and Arley, but not at the same time - they tend to tag team. He and Arley went fishing on their own again, and it has had such a positive benefit for Arley. He wants to do it more often, and this morning he took his OT down to the lakes, and before this he would refuse to walk anywhere with her. Chayse also fell in the pool, so he and Carmie had a good swim. They all ended up staying for dinner, and afterwards Arley and Chayse hunted and collected cane toads in our backyard. They put them all in a box to show us, it was funny and gross. It was a fun day.
Carmie is spending more and more time in her room. It's like she's suddenly become a teenager. She has an online friend in the States who she chats to all the time, and she spends a lot of time in her room drawing. I took her to a homeschool meet on Friday (Arley was fishing with Clint), and it surprisingly went quite well. We met my friend Rose there, with her kids Tahlia and Mason. Tahlia is very good at inviting Carmie to play, so they did, and then they slotted in with some other girls playing a card game. We are going back to the homeschool meet tomorrow, so I'm hoping this becomes our Friday thing and Carmie makes more friends in real life.
Arley and I have been to the beach and a park two mornings this past week, to get some exercise. I've had to bribe him with a day of screens afterward, but he is getting out in nature and running around. His OT thinks eventually we won't have to reward him with a day of screens, so we plan on doing this a couple of times a week.
I don't have much more to add. Keep your fingers crossed that next week is as good as this one!
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