Wednesday 19 March 2008

happy in her task!





Nelly is loving nursery, but on those cold days when the sun makes no appearance at all and it drizzles all day we hole ourselves up in the kitchen where it is warm as toast and do things! This particular afternoon she insisted on putting on her pyjama bottoms! As I type she is standing on a chair at the sink washing up!




Monday 10 March 2008

Some images from our week in Italy - most of them involve some sort of eating! ...in no particular order but mainly lots of Nelly and various family ...she loved it the best things being Parma Ham and Parmesan Cheese! ....more to follow but needless to say we are still dummyless ( how proud am I of that achievement! )


Nelly feeding her new doll on her birthday ....how large is that baby's head
Cividale..
Nelly and Rob in Cividale on her birthday ..




Nelly and Giacomo enjoying a joke!!!...made up for all the pushing and pinching that went on during the 5 day visit !!!


Happy 2nd birthday Nelly Noo....
Rob's cousin Egidio ( any family resemblance ,....answers on a postcard please!!!)
and Anita with Nelly...on her birthday
Nelly and Giacomo enjoying a joke ...in between chatting in English and Italian and beating each other up!


The Puddu family etc etc out for dinner!
Nelly's birthday cake ....laced as we discovered later with rum!!! no wonder she and Giacomo were gobbling down the strawberries!
Your second birthday!



Rob and Nelly on the Dondolo at severino's house - many an hour spent sitting there in summers gone by and I have only been visiting since 1995!
Lida, Marina and Nelly ...
Lara and Nelly




Rob with his cousin's Gabriella's son Marco with Nelly
Nelly and Daddy ....

Nelly at lunch...




Nelly enjoying the one day of sunshine we had in Zio Severino's garden...







La famiglia Norton in Staranzano
Nelly with Gabriella and Marco



















Sunday 2 March 2008

one week without a dummy!!!

nelly has come of age and given up the dummy! well last week after her tongue biting episode she no longer wanted to suck on the dummy ...opened up a fabulous opportunity to give it up - we have had afew moments where she asks for it but we have got through them - and gone completely cold turkey! Hurrah a 2 year old without a dummy! Big Girl !

Still in Italy , still eating ! At least the sunis shining today as we have had three days of dense fog!
Off mor lunch with Rob's uncle in a while and then visiting ....