She Moves In Mysterious Ways

Good news and bad news!
The good news is that Elizabeth has moved. She has learnt how to shuffle on her bum on the wooden floors. She only manages about 2cm in 15 minutes, but it's a start and seems to make her very happy indeed. We were also given a bouncer for her and, as you can see from the shot above, she loves it.

The bad news is that Elizabeth caught gastro-enteristis with vomiting and we all had a very unpleasant week with a baby who kept throwing up on us. As a result, she has lost weight again and is the weight of an average five-month-old. At least we are going to get extra wear out of last summer's outfits - she's the cheapest baby in town.

Still not getting any sleep, but Elizabeth's room has now been transformed into a gorgeous, pale pink paradise with a pale blue polka dot blind. It looks so beautiful and was inspired by the lovely painting my sister gave Elizabeth. We'll put a photo on the blog when we 'launch' it!

J
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Thank you, everyone at Sage

A arrived home tonight with a box full of money! Sage raised over £1,500 for the Sick Children's Trust last Thursday. Each month the company lets everyone pay to go into work in casual clothes and this was the most they have EVER raised. We are really thrilled. With Gift Aid (we are going to send a cheque off from our account) this will be worth over £2,000 to the charity and that could pay for a family to stay for two and half months in Crawford House.

Calling all Northerners! Date for your diaries: To celebrate Elizabeth's first birthday, we are holding a garden party on May 21st in aid of the SCT.

Jxxx

Absentee Parent

Well, we girls survived the weekend without A who was in Derby getting his ying and his yang aligned. Despite the challenging weather, we had fun visiting Chris, Ben and Aimee yesterday and going out for lunch today. Chloe's catching up on "What? Why? Where?" with a vengeance and today's challenge was explaining the different theories on how stars were created. I think I did an even worse job than last week when we talked about who the first man and woman on Earth may have been. I'm sure Chloe would much rather have a mother who replied, "Adam and Eve, darling", but that would be far too simple!

Chloe had her first stroke of a guinea pig at Aimee's house, but amazingly there have been no demands for small, furry animals as her pets. When WILL she learn the power of the pester?!

A has come back much refreshed and ready to take on the world, so mission accomplished.

J
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Cute pic alert

Here's Elizabeth having a lovely time with her little musical box today. Full of the joys of spring!

More Health professionals

We had a nice time celebrating my mum's 69th this weekend. Lunch at The Dyvels in Corbridge (Ted Parkinson's review, "The best Sunday lunch I've had out for years.") followed by a birthday tea with Ed, Ruby and Ted.

On the subject of Elizabeth, she has expanded her roster of health professionals even further and in the past week we have seen the physio; the speech therapist; the dietician and and, last but not least, the gastro consultant. Elizabeth isn't really putting on weight which is why the NHS has sprung into action.

Lovely Dr Bunn confirmed what we have suspected for ages which is that Elizabeth has a very small tummy. It's great to have that confirmed rather than it being just my pet theory! Dr Bunn's experience of exomph babies is that they are "little and often" eaters as a result of anatomical differences.

I popped into foetal medicine today to introduce Elizabeth to Dr Sturgis and Donna who were both wonderful prior to her birth. Sadly neither of them were around, but it was quite emotional going back there with my lovely girl. The last time I was there the future was looking very uncertain.

J
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