life with nelly: week six - meet lots of friends and some very special ones...

Week Six at home with Nelly - we have been out and about, but Miss N has been down with one of two things A) a really bad cold - cough, runny nose...B) teething...constant dribbling and night pain....during the day she was quite clingy but we managed to get on with things. The weekend started with us staying with friends in Barnes before they too move out of London and Nelly had her first taste of steak and kidney pie and had a bath with a boy! ...

On Tuesday we drove out to Henley to see a really good and special friend Catherine - she was one of our referees and said (I hope) nice things about us to Beatrice our Social Worker so a very special introdcution - although by Tuesday she was really getting clingy, did nbot eat that much, put some orange fingerpritns on Catherines sofa and by the evening when I got home her cough had become so bad that she ate, coughed and then threw up all over me ...quick change ..followed by some more ...OOOPS ...two of us in the bath tonight at seven! ........

A tad subdued in Monkey Music on Wednesday, followed by lunch in the garden ! how hot was it today - garden furniture out, unbrella up and sunglasses on ...lunch with Alison W and her two children...Cough got so bad bought some Tixylix...made for a quieter evening and a sleep through the night!

The boiler was serviced on Wednesday this week and tdays1he heating had become erratic, after the service it broke down and no heating ! ooops at least we are experiencing a March heatwave but next week forecast is snow... engineer came over on Thursday and finally managed to replace the circuit board that had broken by abouut 6 in the evening...

Friday - another lovely day and Nelly and I went over to Debbies in Dulwich for coffee to meet another lady whois also waiting for her referral, she wanted to meet oour little ones and we hope that we could give her a bit of hope and some ways of managing the wait - Fiona and I recommended plenty of pre-baby holidays..! Hope we could help as I remember that awful final waiting feeling and trying to come up with ways of coping... part two of Week six is visiting Gabs in Bournemouth ( the other very special referee ) and some windy time on the beach ! so check out the next post...