wk twenty four

Week 24! wow nearly half a year that little missy has been here...looking back she has grown so much, she really was a little baby when she came and now a little girl, as I type she is sitting on the floor next to me reading Beauty and the BEast to her Panda! He has just eaten weetabix for his breakfast!





The weather was still rainy that week and after picking up the keys we decided to camp and spend a weekend at the new house. Courtesy of a rather comfortable blow up bed from our lovely ST J Road neighbours Kate and Nash - we had a weekend there with my sister and her girls , they all enjoyed it and we had a great time meeting neighbours, walking in the village, enjoying the garden and stripping paper off walls!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Nelly and her cousins enjoying a brief moment of sunshine

Nelly and ROb out for a walk ......

The Long Straight road great for a walk with a buggy

Breakfast in the new kitchen on a Homebase chair!

Stories with her favourite cousins!


Read it again Beth....1 My favourite - Don't put your finget in the jelly Nelly!

week twenty three

HURRAH - Nelly is a British Citizen!!!!!!! we can now apply for her passport and take her to Europe to meet the rest of her family in Italy and Hungary ...and all our close friends in France...

THere was a very good programme about adopting from China on Radio 4 this morning - Listen Again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm click on China Girls link.....



Party one of the weekend ...Nelly with our friend and neighbour Kate

Spent the afternoon with our neighbours in their garden had great fun with the kids in the ball pit that Hati had rented...

Nelly rolling around in the ball pit...

China Girls Reunion in Twickenham...Luci, Molly, Nelly, Lola and Martha - poor hostess Millie was sick and had to go to the doctors half way through the party...

Yew Tree House ....- ours !

We completed on the new house..! adn arte planning on spending a couple of days a week up there until we fully move in once the decorating work is done...

Phew...........! Rob looking relieved and proud at his new front door....

One of the gardens ..... fabulous lavender and rosemary...a very sunny garden that would be great to keep as a silver and blue theme...
Nelly in the kitchen, looks like I am going to have to do one of those Aga cookery courses!

Percy Panda and Pooh Bear arrive at Yew Tree House..........

THE Yew Tree....
House and drive ....
Rear Garden... We have a veg patch - with two raspberry canes( summer and autumn fruits...) gooseberries, strawberries, potatoes and at the back to the left there is a fenced off section that we will use to install the Eglu with the hens...http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php

Our most recent monthly lunch

Molly Nina and Nelly ....
Millie, Nelly and Plum ...in the water game...

Yew Tree House ...OURS

anyone want to buy a lovely house in SE27!....

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Rob Nelly Andre and Claire...

Nelly enjoying a juggler at the Royal Festival Hall........

Max B....

Jack B.....

Nelly ....
....and her Mama...

Just Nelly looking gorgeous - !

This was the week that we moved Nelly from two sleeps a day down to one. I had been wondering how on earth I was going to do this ....I decided to take her to a local play group that I had not tried before that opened at 9 30 - this is her normal time to lay her head down on my lap and then sleep for an hour and a half! The play group worked and we managed mainly one sleep each day after an hearly lunch for two hours! The group was lovely and I met another woman who had adopted her son from Thailand at the same time as we met Nelly.....

Nelly had her first visit to the dentist - with me, she rode up and down in the chair with me and was well behaved...

Not sure if I mentioned this before in a previous post but Nelly has taken to choosing the shoes she wants to wear...she dives into the show box and digs out her preferred pair ! Well this obsession was taken to new heights in week twenty two. After we left the dentist in Holborn I was walking across to Picadilly and decided to pop into Bertie - the shoe shop in Long Acre as they had their sale on...After a quick glance along the Size 5 section, I turned to leave. As we passed a coffee shop near Leicester Square, a young bloke came running up to me holding out a Size 4 Black Court Shoe with bow on the front , covered in Price Reduction stickers from ...BERTIE!- the sort that sits on the racks for people to try on in the sale !!!!!!!!! My little Imelda had only nabbed herself a show she took a fancy to!

I managed a day of work and Nelly got her second taste of play group and a trip to Sainsbury's with Daddy!

I got a night out - party at my old agency who are moving offices, felt like old times talking to clients and old colleagues.

Week ended with another birthday party, lunch in a new Gastropub and an afternoon with friends on the South Bank....