Kate slept about two hours yesterday afternoon. We had about forty-five minutes before I had planned for us to have dinner. I suggested looking at her photo albums. She liked that. We started with an album of her father’s family. She was quite interested and talked about her feelings for her family as we went through it. When we finished, we picked up the “Big Sister” album that her brother Ken had made for her this past spring. The photos in this one are larger than the other album. That made it much easier for her to identify the people in the pictures. Once again, she is attracted to the same pictures she mentioned previously when we looked through the album. One of those pictures is of her with her brother when she was about five or six and Ken about three. She almost always talks about the two of them in the third person. “Aren’t they cute.” “Look at their smiles.” Sometimes it is clear that she doesn’t realize that she and Ken are the two children. Other times I think she does. She also pays particular attention to the smiles. The pictures she likes best have nice smiles.
After dinner, we came back home where I put on YouTube videos. This time I chose a couple of opera singers, Kristine Opalais and Juan Diego Florez. I played a good two hours worth before we went to bed. She enjoyed them and didn’t want me to turn them off, but I told her they were videos, and we could play them again whenever we wanted.
She went to sleep rather easily and slept until 6:00 this morning when she got up to go to the bathroom. We have the sitter today. I also go back to Rotary after the Christmas and New Years break. If necessary, I’ll let Valorie get her up and take her to lunch. I suspect, however, that she might be up earlier today. She has had quite a bit of sleep in the past few days.
