Natalie Meets a Dragon!

We spent a lovely weekend with our friends Cheryl and Barney, and their son William who is only a month or so older than Natalie. During the day we went to a petting zoo where Natalie was fascinated by the dragons in the reptile house. The dragons were pretty interested in her too!

Natalie face to face with her first dragon

"Can I tickle it under the chin?"

Natalie is out of Hospital

To our huge relief, Natalie is back at home again after her operation, and looking so much happier. Here is a photo to prove it!

Operation and Hospital

I'm sure any parents reading this will understand why the blog has got a bit behind with us having a 6 month old to look after! The past few months have been lovely really, with Natalie starting to smile and babble. All captured on camera and video of course, but not yet uploaded onto the blog I'm afraid. Unfortunately hanging over us during this time has been the looming date for Natalie's operation to fix her cleft palate. Dad is writing this blog entry live from the hospital cafeteria, having come to visit Natalie and Mum after work today. Natalie went into surgery on Monday, and was under the surgeons knife for around 3 hours. Thankfully the operation appears to have gone as planned, but she is not allowed home for at least 3 days. So Mum has been staying with her in hospital, and Dad has been there as much of the time as he can fit around work (who have been very understanding and supportive).

The past couple of days following the operation have been really quite horrible for all of us as Natalie has been in a lot of pain, and not at all her usual self. She went into hospital her happy smiling bouncy self, but came round after the operation very unhappy indeed. It was 24 hours before she really opened her eyes properly again, and when she did it was only for a few minutes (but really lovely to see her look at us again). Now another day on and she actually managed a little smile when Dad arrived to visit her this evening. She has been taken off the strong pain killers today, so she is starting to wake up a bit more now (but fell asleep shortly after Dad got here this evening!).

So hopefully we will be allowed to bring her home tomorrow, and can start to get back to normal. Hopefully as we are resting over the coming long weekend Dad will catch up a bit with the blog!

Natalie's First Wedding

We took Natalie to her first wedding this weekend. It was very windy outside the church, and for some reason we did not get any pictures of her at the reception. But she really enjoyed meeting large crowds of people for the first time.

Natalie meets Matty, another recent addition to our caving club.

Natalie enjoying her first night in a B&B

In the Garden

Just a pleasant day at home in the garden.

Natalie and Mum enjoying the Spring sunshine

Natalie is nice and warm in her thick coat

Natalie likes to feel our faces at the moment

Bath Time

Natalie enjoys her baths, and usually manages to empty half the water out onto the living room floor!

April Fool

Some April fools day pictures of Natalie.

This is a rubber moulded seat which supports Natalie so she can sit up before she has the strength to support her own weight. She enjoys being sat up as you can see.

She also enjoys being in her comfy recliner of course!

She is already developing her computer skills.