life with nelly: week fourteen

Still catching up with the blog!............we spent week fourteen

The week started with the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, on the Saturday we had planned to meet up with our good friend Emma but she had to cancel so we headed off to Nelly' favourite for lunch - Wagamamas and then to the Tate Modern....

On the Sunday it was our neighbours son's second birthday picnic in Dulwich Park so there was lots of running around and eating, at one point I turned around to talk to someone and by the time I turned back she was stuffing handfuls of crisps into her mouth with both hands!! Needless to say she was sick in the night! oh well we all over indulge at some points in our life.....

Bank Holiday Monday we took Nelly up to meet our friends who live in Aldbury, who are emigrating to Australia at the end of the year - the rain poured down as we drove up the MI then as we got there the sun came out and we had a great day as there was a village Fair. Nelly got to meet black sheep, goats, rabbits, mice, guinea pigs....we then had tea back at Kerry and Neils and got very jealous looking at one of the houses they have looked at in Oz!

We had our usual monthly lunch in the Junction, Nelly was a bit off colour and at that point I had totally lost my voice...so I guess she was getting sick again!

Another first for Nelly that week was her trip on the train to Cheshire where I would stay with my sister on the farm; the journey is about 1 hour 45 minutes, and was bearable except the final fifteen and then she fell fast asleep! She loved being on the farm and her fascination with cows ( she loves a Cow glove puppet that we bought her it is called Mavis , and her favourite programme on CBeebies after the Night Garden is a short story called Blue Cow ! ) did not diminish, every morning she looked out of the windows and mooed! before asking to go out into the garden to play on the swings and tramploine..

My nieces have been desperate to see these pictures on the blog - so here they are ...all of her class had been following the progress of our trip to China to meet Nelly so Nelly went into the school to see all of the teachers - she disrupted a number of classes on two occasions! We were at Clare's for five days so the end of week fourteen and into week fifteen. She did miss Rob at first when she realised that he was not in the bed on the Saturday morning! We then downloaded skype on Clare's PC and got a webcam so we could see each other! she loved that. Every day she was on the swings and trampoline and being mothered by her two cousins

We met other cousins whose wives had both had babies in January so it was lovely to see Nelly with babies