First night out and the morning after

Sophie goes to visit her younger pal, Emily, and sleeps it off the morning after. Cathy and Alan had Emily just two days ago.

Bouncy chairs are fun

...and the vibration switch is on in which photo?

Lottie - update

Lottie is making good progress. Her nerves are firing up and she's getting the use back in her stiff legs. She's still pretty miserable and frustrated at not being able to walk properly (see pic). The one outstanding issue is her damaged pelvis, particularly the ball-and-socket joint of her right back leg. The plan is to wait until her nerves are better and she's ready for surgery and then to do something called a femoral head excision on her broken leg joint. Basically, they take the ball off the femur and create a gliding joint, which will serve her well (although she always have a bit of a swagger).

Eight days old

Here are some more pics. She has started to be more alert but her favourite hobby is still sleeping.

Passport photos

What do you think?

Beast on the road to recovery

Lottie (a.k.a. Beastly) spent some time with some friends when Jo was in hospital last week. 6 days ago she escaped from the house and tried to find her way back home across The Hague .... a feat that not even the protagonists in The Incredible Journey could have accomplished. Lottie had an altercation with a car and broke her pelvis in several places in addtion to suffering nerve damage which left her front left leg paralysed. She also went into shock. She was a bit "touch and go" (but mainly "go") for a while, which left us reeling after the great news of our baby daughter Sophie two days before. However she has made great progress in the past few days and is now using her front leg again. The vet thinks there will be a postive outcome but it will take a long time for her to recover. She will probably require surgery on her damaged leg joint. It's really fortunate that the Dutch love dogs. The driver of the car phoned for a pet ambulance (yes they have ambulances for pets), and Lottie was whisked to a 25 hour pet centre.

Anyway, here's a pic of Beastly (a.k.a. Lottie) just a couple of days after the accident. A few people have e-mailed asking for news (Lottie's fan club Ra Ra Ra!) so we'll post progress here.

Shopping

Today Sophie and Simon both needed passports so a trip to the photo shop was planned. This is Sophie's first outing in her new wheels. Here's a top tip. If you are getting photos done for a passport try getting more than 2 hours sleep in the preceding three nights.

Co-ordinated bed linen

All my clothes are too big

Hello World!

Rearrange into chronological order

Friends Reunited

In the Nursery

The calm before the storm!

Cute outfits

Not born yet but already a bulging wardrobe!

First anniversary

Last Saturday was our first anniversary. Here's Jo looking lovely in a little black number. We went to Calla's restaurant. I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wants some posh nosh in The Hague.