this time last year ...

we were so close to meeting our little precious one! can you believe it - I keep thinking about how far we have come and trying to relive those precious times ...so what where we doing in Jan 14th 2007 a year ago - we went into the West End on a Sunday to buy gifts for the orphanage staff, I remember being in John Lewis buying pen holders and going to a tacky souvenir shop on Oxford Street for fridge magnets..the day before we had done Woolies in West Norwood for stickers and numerous pairs of socks and baby gros for the children in the SWI. and then we headed to friends for a final Sunday evening dinner before becoming a family!


Let's go to Oxford...
Taking the edge off waiting for food in Pizza SloMo Oxford...
How long will those dough balls be!!!

This year January 12th 2008...After torrential rain on Friday and I guess floods down in the valley ; and Nelly's first unaccompanied settling in session at nursery - Saturday was a lovely day and we headed into Oxford for a mooch and lunch. We spent an inordinate amount of time in Pizza non express where Nelly delighted most of the staff and the customers while waiting on our salad nicoise, veneziana and some doughballs!!!

Nelly had her first proper session at nursery this morning - she was really good - did not cry when I left her, apparently cried a bit during the morning but most of the time she was really good...I was the tearful one when I went to pick her up and I thought it was meant to be the Mum crying when they left the child for the first time not when they got them back!! She just looked so sweet and grown up running around to get her gloves and shoes on and hugging Lucy the lovely lady who manages the toddler room..well that is that for another week, hope she is still as enthusiastic next week!