Week 23-26 - UK

Mary Ann has turned 6 months. I can’t believe that time has gone so quickly. I remember when she still was hospitalized I was thinking about those big kids on visit at the ward with their parents as if it was yesterday. Now we have just been there ourselves last week. Mary Ann is official now one of the big kids. You can also see how quickly times fly for me now in the blog. I don’t write as often any more. I think I will stick to pictures and occasionally few words about her development.

Mary Ann is getting bigger and bigger; clothes are getting too small and she getting heavier. She is now measured 4600g and 62 cm long. Next time the Health Visitor comes it will be for talking spoon food. Oh no is my little baby really ready for that? I try to think for her as a small girl now not a baby anymore. She is in the age where she no longer can be called a baby. I have now put a side all her smallest clothes. She does still fit few pieces in size 44. But I structured size 50-56 for her now in her drawers. We will bend the sleeves and then she wears her “bigger girl” clothes just fine. I’m eager to use some of all the beautiful English clothes we got for her. It would be a shame if we didn’t had the opportunities to use them. Consequently she will be wearing pretty dresses every day for some time now. There’s a huge difference between the Danish and English clothes which we have the benefit of in these days. I have also sorted all the Kurdish clothes from our close friends. That will mainly be what she is going to wear in the future. We got it all from their daughter so we don’t need to buy anything really except shoes or maybe few body stockings.
All this sorting out is because I expect to start work very soon now. Today we are pretending I’m at work and then Neil is having a chance to see how he take care of Mary Ann the hole day while doing different household tasks.

It was in last weekend Mary Ann made her first real laughter. She chuckled – the sweetest sound I have ever heard!!! First she did it while her Godmother and I stood round her. And the next day she did it again while my mum and I stood round her. That was on her Christening day. The fun part was that both times it was when I made some of the sounds I have done so many times before. Until now she hasn’t done it again since. I hope I didn’t scare her when I stared crying my eyes out when I heard the sugary sound of her laughter.

The Christening went so well. We had the pleasure of having Granny and Granddad here a week a head or almost here the whole week. In the weekend both Neil’s brothers joined us. They didn’t sleep over but at the local Inn. That worked out well. I think that it also was nice for them to have a quiet place in the evening. They were here throughout the day and working in the garden off curse. It was a great help for Neil for once having some help. Neil being in the garden made my days very busy with Mary Ann, feeding people, making room for Mary Ann’s Godmother and preparing the upcoming Christening. Godmother Nips was sleeping over from Friday to Monday. It was an unbelievable joy for me finally introducing her to Mary Ann. As she lives in Copenhagen we enjoy the few times we are together more. She took care of Mary Ann with such a love that it made it so easy for me to concentrate on the groundwork for Sunday. We couldn’t have chosen a better Godmother for Mary Ann.
Nips had some competition at the Christening brunch here after church. A lot for friends had offered their help with taking care of Mary Ann for us on the day, so we could relax with the guests. She was dressed in the Campbell dress, behaved as always nicely and took all the commotion spectacularly with smiles and giggling for all. Danish Christening site
When I woke out Monday it was with an extraordinarily affectionate and peaceful feeling inside. Life is simply (all most) too good. The all most because I think we deserve it also with her tough start in life.

Don’t worry if it’s long time since I wrote the blog. I’m sure everything will keeping on being greater then great. It is just me being busy organizing things, go to work and being a mum J

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