Grace did something which really warmed our hearts today. Donné has been watching Glee and wanted to show me a scene where a deaf choir sings “Imagine” by John Lennon (they sign it and one of the members speaks the words). Halfway through the song the Glee club kids join in with singing. Grace was watching and started to sign along with the deaf choir. It was very heart warming and fascinating (surprising) to see how she was mimicking their actions really well.

This sweet and heart warming child is also the one who has suddenly gotten full of energy and is just loving any sort of physical activity. Today we went for a walk in Green Point park again and she rode her bike around a large part of the park, went for a long swim where she kicked, bounced, splashed and had loads of fun, and then went for another ride up and down the street. She is getting really fast on her bike and manoeuvres really well – even when I think she is going to ride it off the path and into a stream of water.

Getting some of this extra energy out has now become a bit of our daily routine at bath time. Once she has her clothes off she thinks it is a great time to run off down the passage, through the lounge, through the kitchen and back again. For us it is really lovely to see her being more boisterous.

The reason we were in Green Point again this morning was to have coffee with a great friend, and we discovered another place which serves amazing coffee – Miss K. Really awesome cappuccinos (although they would technically be classified as flat whites). We will add that to our list of recommended coffee shops.