life with nelly: week seventeen

The Bank Holiday weekend turned into a dreary wet weekend! Rob's Dad was over and we managed to make it to a very empty Dulwich Park on the Saturday afternoon, followed on the SUnday by a wet day in Herts at Nelly's cousin's ( second cousin in reality ) 2nd birthday party. She had a great time with Fish and Chips followed by jelly!!( I hate jelly so Nelly will only ever get to eat it at parties ..poor deprived child..) then musical cushions, statues etc ..and came home with a party bag....

Bank Holiday Monday.....and more rain rain rain ...so we headed off to the Horniman Museum with every other parent in SE London ....Nelly loves the Aquarium and we bumped into a friend there also sheltering from the rain...home soggy but contented and Papa Frank back to Birmingham in the evening....

Another first this week was her discovery of make up ....Bobbi Brown...Chanel....oops ..a lovley site!

The following weekend Nelly had her first night out - we were invited over to friends across the road for supper.. so we took her across in her PJs hoping that after a busy day lunching with a friend, followed by a little light shopping at Selfridges that she would be tired! Likely story - she was awake until we left at 11 15 - but she slept well the next day.

Sunday was a picnic with friends who have all adopted - these are people that I met many years ago through the IVF process and all have moved on to adopt from UK, China and Russia ....the weather forecast had been bad all week but by Sunday we had a lovely day - sunshine all day. Our Friend Linda was there with Anna whom she adopted form Jiangxi in China three years ago, Anna really took Nelly under her wing and spent ages pushing her on the swings and trying to feed her green olives ( Nelly loves grapes, Anna loves olives and the former did not realise the difference but really did not like them! ) - ............