It's been a while!

Well it's been almost six months since we last updated and Kelly is still achieving so much.  We picked up prosthesis number four on Christmas Eve, partly due to her growth but also the fact that her previous one had been extremely well tested and was starting to fall apart!  This time it's adorned with ballerinas as this is still her passion and I'm sure the reason that she has progressed so well.  She can't wait to get back to dancing to show her teacher and to try it out because already she's finding it far more comfortable (her last one was causing a fair bit of pain by the end).  Talking of dancing, for the very first time Kelly danced a solo in her concert in December.  Even without a dress rehearsal and with only one shot to get it right she danced beautifully and again had the audience in tears!  She also did group ballet, contemporary and jazz dances and was able to be just one of the gang without standing out at all.  I just love to see her on the stage beaming absolute joy.

Kelly finished grade six on a high after being elected house captain.  She has always given her best as far as school sport goes, been in the netball and touch football teams, swam in the swimming carnival, competed in athletics and ran cross country.  At cross country she sold inspirational wrist bands in house colours and with the support of her school managed to raise $1000 for The Tara Maria Fund (www.thetaramariafund.com) to help Tara (an amputee like herself) to buy a beach leg.  The school also donated $200 and a family friend, Gary Wood, donated $200 on Kelly's behalf bringing the total to $1400 which was absolutely amazing.  We hope to continue this fund raising this year.

My new beach leg

I now have my new wet leg made by BPO so I can go to the beach, play in the water and even swim!

Oh, I can also stand up in the shower again which is really great!!!

Year Six Camp - Camp Goodenough!

I had the best time on school camp and I did all the activities.

Mum and dad were really proud when I got home and showed them the photos!

December

In December we went back down to Sydney for a holiday. This time I got to go to the ballet (Sleeping Beauty) I met up with Alice Topp again and had a life time of experience to go backstage with mum, meg (my cousin) and my Auntie lisa. I got to go to the dressing and costume rooms and even dress up in all different head pieces!! (thats one of them in the pic) It was by far the best day ever!!! :)

Also i went back to randwick hospital to visit everyone!!! It was nice to see everyone again :) But I was sad Joel wasn't there :(

I reached my goal!!!!

In November I reached my goal of dancing in the end of year show!

I did one Ballet and one Contemporary dance. It was good to be dancing with my friends again :)

You can see me in the videos below!! I'm centre at the back in the red dress for ballet if you can't spot me and in the third row closest to the camera in contemporary :)