Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow….. I never thought Veronika’s second skin would make such a difference the minute she put it on the first time.   Even though this is her “I’m not to sure about this” face, I was shocked just how straight is makes her stand, and when she is sitting, there…

All ready to set sail…. Sunday we had a family day with Down Syndrome Tasmania Southern Families, at SailAbility. What a fabulous day we all had. They took the two bigger boats out in the morning, while others went on the smaller 2 seater boats. Then we had a BBQ lunch, and after that we…

Last week I took Veronika to the Childcare centre she is going to start at in a couple of weeks. She was so excited when we pulled into the car park. We have been there a few times in the last couple of months to pickup forms, drop forms in etc, and Jakob my middle…

For those of you who missed The Mercury(our local newspaper)   http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/02/13/300651_tasmania-news.html

Veronika’s Therapists had recommended that Veronika needed a Second Skin.   http://www.secondskin.com.au/   A funding application was made to Cerebral Palsy Tasmania, and they granted her application to pay for her Second Skin *insert Happy Dance from Me, to Cerebral Palsy Tas* in December last year. The lovely staff at Second Skin said, if we…

We have been working with our new speech therapist from St Giles to help with Veronika’s nutrition. One thing that the speechy at ECIS made for Veronika to use, just before Christmas was a finished sign.   Thats the black and white circle next to Veronika’s plate. As you know Veronika hardly eats anything, and…

We are well and truly back into the swing of therapy, therapy, therapy. It’s fabulous that we live where we do, and that we have to opportunity to go to early intervention therapy…..but at the same time, it’s so much running around. More so in the school holidays, Veronika has 2 older brothers, and I…

What a fabulous couple of weeks we have had……we finally have plans back from council, approved and ready for us to start building Veronika’s Hydrotherapy room. It has been a very long, slow process…..but I just keep thinking it will all be worth it when it’s finally finished. I guess the one bonus that it…

A quick post with a couple of photos… We had a family trip to the beach last weekend, the boys go to a siblings program for siblings of children with disAbilities, and last weekend they had a surfing lesson day. Veronika loves water, and was bursting to get into it…. For a brief moment I…