Our Queenstown holiday

We have just had a wee break in Queenstown and it was great! We went to a seminar on Aspergers syndrome and learned heaps more about Riley and helping his future. We took lots of notes like the good students we are!

We found a holiday home to stay in that overlooked Millbrook and Grandma and Grandad came to help look after the kids. What do you think of the view out the front window? Magic huh?

We took Riley up the 'snowy mountain' (yes he has been watching too much Dora..) Although unsure at first, after awhile, we couldn't get him off the snow. We also managed to get him up the gondola. It is quite a quiet operation and not too many people and he hopped on so we were stoked. We had a photo of it but it hasn't uploaded properly-probably cos Dad looked horrendous in it.

We were lucky to have G and G there. Even with the cost of petrol, they spent every afternoon driving Jemma around the region while she slept. On the day we took Riley up the gondola, she slept 2 hours! It was a long car trip :-)

Jemma is nearly crawling. She is rocking on all fours. She has 2.5 weeks until she turns 1 so it would be nice if she could do it before then. Riley is making some great sentences and his reasoning is improving. It is nice to think all our interventions are working. Though he has had a couple of colds and being sick definitely makes him more autistic than usual. But we marvel at what a bright cookie he is and I would bet anything that he knows more words to songs than any other 3 year old around. He has a phenomenal memory and he knows so many songs including verses- it blows us away.