life with nelly: week four nellys birthday

Week Four ....

the week of Nelly's first birthday and Grandma coming to stay! The week started with a trip to Meteorite to meet the Meteorites - she fell straight into agency life and within about ten minutes she had moved through the agency and met most people! When will she be back for some work experience! it was great to be back there and catching up with people and introducing Nelly

Mum came down for a couple of days for Nelly's first birthday, she loved being here and helping out amazed at how much she eats, how well she can crawl and almost walk .Wednesday was The Big Birthday - took Nelly off to Monkey Music and then went to Debbie and Molly's for lunch and Kate and Millie were there, the girls loved all playing together, it was so nice to see them all together. Molly and Millie were crib mates in their orphanage and it was so nice to see them playing together and how they recognise each other.

In the evening Frank and Kate and lisa and karen came over to celebrate with cake and champagne...and Nelly showed off how she can move quickly on her firetruck...

We then spent the rest of the week getting ready for N's first party - while she was concentrating on getting on with walking and climbing the stairs - we were watching I promise...so by the time arrived for the party she impressed all with her toddling skills and they improve every day.

Having rob at home has been fun and interesting but he is starting to feel bored, this week saw our other great friends Kate and Frank packing up an moving to Cornwall so another big moment ! Time to move???????? well Rob is always looking ....

The party was great, so many people, so many children, it was fun and Nelly struggled on until about four when she finally fell asleep on my shoulder at about 3 30 and slept for an hour! we had to kick some children out of her room.

It was lovely to be able to introduce her to so many people, we were all exhausted by the end of the day and we both felt that we only spent about five minutes with each person at the party so apologies to everyone if we only managed a few words to you....all was tidy adn ship shape again by 11 that evening !