New Zealand

Phew!

After a manic few weeks and a 35 hour journey, we are finally in New Zealand and over the jet lag. We have left our jobs in London, sold our car, sold our house. It feels a bit weird to be homeless and jobless with an unknown future, but it is great to have a bit of a holiday.

Below are some posts from the last few weeks in London that have suddenly appeared, since we upgraded blogger, as they would not load before.

I have also managed to get blogger working from my phone, so expect some blogs on the go! Although it is quite expensive using my UK pay as you go mobile, so don't expect too many.

It is nowXmas eve, and it feels very strange to be in shorts and sunglasses. Blake has just arrived, so above is a photo of Daisy with her most recently introduced Uncle.

Got to go, more posts to follow soon.....

Andy

Strada

Last NCT

Daisy and I have just gotten home from our last Tuesday NCT catch up. Luckily Daisy is asleep because I'm feeling particulary sorry for myself and have been weeping miserably since I left. The NCT girls have been a brilliant support network and I can't imagine how I would have gotten through the past year without them. Above are some photos from today at the Box Bar.

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M day tomorrow

The movers arrive tomorrow so we are busy busy busy! Daisy is too small for all work and no play however so we went to the Sing and Sign Christmas party yesterday. Loads of babies and lots of fun. Andy had the day off work so we met him afterwards for lunch in Willie Gun, a local pub.

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2 weeks and counting.....

....until we leave. So much to do. Argh! One good thing about leaving is we will be escaping the nasty winter bugs. Being Daisy's first winter properly out and about she's having all the associated woes. She's been sad and had a temperature all day after an awful night last night. Not much sleep was had by anyone, even Andy and it's gotta a bad if he is awake! There wasn't really any crying going on but Daisy was making very sad whimpering sounds all night. She was also desperate to be cuddled constantly so was in our bed until 12.30am then again at 7am. The one good thing is that she has been really tired today so has slept for three hours letting me get lots of packing done. We also went shopping and out for coffee for a change of scene.

Above is not feeling very well Daisy amongst the boxes with her Sing and Sign certificate. We had our last class on Monday so she is now a graduate! It's been a great thing to do and there was high excitement last week when she made her first sign. It was for milk, no surprise there. It's fab cos she is now able to ask for her bottle if she wants it. Much easier than trying to work out why she is grumpy.

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Carnivore

Daisy is making up for enforced veganism as a fetus by being a vociferous meat eater. Her current favourite food is anything that once had a pulse. I'm quite enjoying cooking all the new flavours for her however I draw the line at kidneys and I have to admit I find it kinda gross when she has flesh breath. Eww.

We had a good day in town today. We did a bit of shopping then Daisy hung out with Daddy for an hour then we did a bit more shopping (I see a theme here...) then we met Andy again and Daisy had her first dinner out in central London. She was very well behaved and didn't even mind having her bedtime bottle in her pjs the middle of a busy restaurant.

From the top is lunchtime venison and mushroom pie (I must read her Bambi), out for dinner fun (that's Andy on the left in case of confusion) , 20 minutes later conked out and last but not least, Daisy's first black cab ride! Rain on the buggy, bald cabby, how London can we get?

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Zzzzzz

I'm wondering if Daisy snuck downstairs last night, read my last blog and got worried we were going to sell her on ebay or send her to baby borstal as she slept until 8.45am this morning. EIGHT FORTY FIVE! With no coughing or other night rowdiness. It gave Andy and I a much appreciated chance to catch up on sleep. Bliss.

We had our last yoga session today which was very sad. It's 3 weeks today until we leave so I suppose there are going to be more and more 'lasts'. I'm trying not to think about it all.

Above is Daisy 'world champion sleeper' with her pal Geoffrey 'all round top giraffe' this morning in her cot. Check out that bed hair.

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