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.