last Friday daughter and i got to go to a lecture for Autism and anxiety...Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism, it was an an 8 hour day presentation for parents and professionals and then on saturday another 8 hour day for professionals only, put on by ACT ( Autism Community Training) and the host speaker was Dr. Judy Reaven from the University of Colorado.. Dr. Reaven is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine and is the Director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic of JFK Partners...some of the methods of dealing with anxiety are in the video on this link it will give you an idea of some of the lecture... daughter bought the book set Facing Your Fears which includes a therapist manual, child's workbook and parents workbook... one of the first things we are going to work on... bees and wasps!!!
i'm glad i was invited along, was well worth it...
before getting the lecture we got to fly to Vancouver... on a small plane, a bit lumpy but fun...here's a view as we were leaving Nanaimo Harbour...
crossing Georgia Strait
Vancouver Harbour
the size plane we flew in
Vancouver Skyline
well that was Friday... Saturday was a fun day.... eldest granddaughter's prom day.... so old... just seems like yesterday she was a baby toddling about.....
what fun... down to the waterfront pictures galore... sushi for dinner, then off to the dance... then after parties....
ahhh to be young!!
Sunday..... new day to do things..... the weather was stellar still and so the other two grandkids and i went to the beach.....
i loaned them my camera and they took some great pictures
of one of the eels they found
they had great fun... the eldest found a bucket and they wandered the beach looking for critter treasures... rocks and shells overturned, crabs a plenty, some bullheads (sculpin) and a few starfish...
and this dead fish below... which we think is a Pacific Needlefish, scanning the internet i came up blank.. anyways if you know what it is.. please let me know...
and now you know why so little gardening this week....
p.s. thanks to queen of string who knew who this little guy is... http://www.elasmodiver.com/Bay_Pipefish_Pictures.htm