Well the little party wasn't so little. We had almost 80 people through the house during the day which was great. After about 1/2 hour it became obvious that we were no going to be able to cope alone so people started making their own drink, washing up, serving each other. It was a really good time.
And now of course we are the proud parents of a 1 year old, and nearly a toddler. Summer has this last week started to do a sort of crawl. If properly motivated for the plug mainly) she can now get about the living room enough to put the fire place strictly out of bounds and for us to fear for the CD tray. We don't mind of course as we remember a time no so long ago when we thought she may never be able to move around. What an answer to our prayers that is and who knows where it will end; will she ever stand or walk? watch this space...
That feeds nicely to our extremely mobile friend Nat who completed the Edinburgh Marathon in a better time than expected (less the 4h30m) and thoroughly beat the sweeper. She also managed to raise a large amount of money for ASBAH (Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus) and also for Summer and any special things she is going need as she grows up.
Thank you Nat for Doing this for my family You are a very good friend of ours.
We had a lovely time in Edinburgh following her around the course although it was really quite exhausting watching all those people. We needed plenty of tea beaks to keep our energy levels up!
One unexpected highlight of the trip was surprisingly on the train back. Summer was loving being the centre of attention in the carriage with those around us and the 2 girls who were encouraging her to blow raspberry's and shout at the top of her voice. It was such a happy time seeing our daughter just lighting up the train with her personality and seemingly drawing people to her. I found my self wanting to tell everyone one what had happened to us and Summer and to let them know that she has gone through so much and is here now as a beautiful girl.
This wasn't to say look at us and feel sorry for us, not at all. But to say look what God can do, see how things can change and be so much better then at first they appear. We pray that God will use Summers story to demonstrate to other family's like ours just what he can do and how he can turn situations in directions we never thought possible. I cant imagine what I'll be writing here in a years time, maybe summer will be typing with me, although probably not at 21.40; she will be in bed by then.
Friday 30 May 2008
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Full Production
We got back from Toulouse after having a really good weekend. It was so nice to catch up with our old friends there and go back to the church we were at. Seeing people who we have never met ourselves recognise Summer from the blog was just amazing. Her story and this blog continue to surprise me on just how its touched people. I must write more!
Summer has really progressed well this last few weeks. Shes mumbling near words, recognising things eating lots and has expanding her circle of influence. I wouldn't say this was through crawling but more an excited wiggle in a single direction. Tonight she was even able to support her weight for a few seconds through her legs while leaning and having mummy there for stability only. This is all really encouraging of course as we had no idea she would even be able to sit let alone crawl and maybe stand.
Kathy had her fist day back at work yesterday. It was a trail day to get her back in the swing of things. As an indicator to how good she is with Summer this one morning i have to get her ready and off to nursery (another thing she has started doing recently to prepare for Kathy working) she reached a little to far off the edge of the bed and got a bruise on her forehead. I'm told I'm not the first parent to let this happen so I'm not being too hard on myself but i did feel very guilty about it.
We have a busy weekend ahead, Its Summer's first birthday on Friday so we will be having a little party at the farm park to see the ducks etc and then on Sunday she is having her Dedication at the Church followed by another party for our Church and Friends back at ours. It should be a good weekend.
We have had some really good news last week. The city council are willing to fund equipment (at least one piece) to be kept at nursery in addition to what we get at home. We have been transporting Summers standing frame in the car for the last few times ad its not easy. The seats need to come down and its really too heavy to be moving like that. We didn't think this was going to happen as bureaucracy really hits hard on the city/county boundaries but apparently the guy making the decision was new in his post and applied a bit of common sense. We do live only 5m from the boundary after all! Summers Nursery is in the same building as our church, it has great accessibility, OFSTED reports and we know a lot of the staff/children/parents there. If this hadn't worked out we may have been forced to move her to somewhere else which would have been very hard.
Today was a rather momentous day. We finally got up to full production with 3 eggs. If they keep going like this they will pay for them selves in about 80years. I will have to use them for a big birthday cake tomorrow.
Summer has really progressed well this last few weeks. Shes mumbling near words, recognising things eating lots and has expanding her circle of influence. I wouldn't say this was through crawling but more an excited wiggle in a single direction. Tonight she was even able to support her weight for a few seconds through her legs while leaning and having mummy there for stability only. This is all really encouraging of course as we had no idea she would even be able to sit let alone crawl and maybe stand.
Kathy had her fist day back at work yesterday. It was a trail day to get her back in the swing of things. As an indicator to how good she is with Summer this one morning i have to get her ready and off to nursery (another thing she has started doing recently to prepare for Kathy working) she reached a little to far off the edge of the bed and got a bruise on her forehead. I'm told I'm not the first parent to let this happen so I'm not being too hard on myself but i did feel very guilty about it.
We have a busy weekend ahead, Its Summer's first birthday on Friday so we will be having a little party at the farm park to see the ducks etc and then on Sunday she is having her Dedication at the Church followed by another party for our Church and Friends back at ours. It should be a good weekend.
We have had some really good news last week. The city council are willing to fund equipment (at least one piece) to be kept at nursery in addition to what we get at home. We have been transporting Summers standing frame in the car for the last few times ad its not easy. The seats need to come down and its really too heavy to be moving like that. We didn't think this was going to happen as bureaucracy really hits hard on the city/county boundaries but apparently the guy making the decision was new in his post and applied a bit of common sense. We do live only 5m from the boundary after all! Summers Nursery is in the same building as our church, it has great accessibility, OFSTED reports and we know a lot of the staff/children/parents there. If this hadn't worked out we may have been forced to move her to somewhere else which would have been very hard.
Today was a rather momentous day. We finally got up to full production with 3 eggs. If they keep going like this they will pay for them selves in about 80years. I will have to use them for a big birthday cake tomorrow.
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