Family: Terry

Kayleigh was 4 when Terry was born - the year she started preschool. Terry and Kayleigh had a good brother sister relationship that was recently starting to evolve into a more mature one. Although they argued and fought - and  do mean fought - with fists and things (which Kayleigh won), they did have a mutual respect for each other.

Kayleigh was our sporty child - flexible and fast. Terry is our brainy one - he loves maths and science - he was doing fractions in Year 1. Terry loved to race Kayleigh around the backyard, or down to school, and always lost. Kayleigh was not good at maths, and so she used Terry's ability - by getting him to do her maths homework. I still remember her giving Terry a sheet of algebra earlier in the year and telling him if h couldn't do it he was no good at maths. He complete it and Kayleigh got 100% on her homework task. Naughty girl.

At the funeral, Terry recounted how he had told Kayleigh that the brakes on his bike were really good and if you braked too hard the back wheel would come off the ground. Kayleigh didn't believe him and she tried it out herself. She pedalled round the backyard getting up speed and slammed the brake on. The bike went up on the front wheel, almost to 60 degrees and it almost toppled over. Kayleighs face was priceless!

Terry misses Kayleigh alot - she has always been there for him. The last thing he said to her was goodnight. and he remembers being pissed off at her the night before because she wanted him to do something he didn't want to and they had an argument.

On top of Tuggeranong reserve
Natassja, Mum, Kayleigh, Kiara, Terry, Dad and Lucas