Off on my hols...

Hi guys,
Well I´m on my travels again. Mummy and I are heading back to Spain this afternoon to see Paps and Aunty Claire. I´m going to meet my Great Aunt Margaret from Sicily, too!
What´s been happening this week... well I guess the big news is that we have a new car. The old one was great - I got to ride in the front seat all the time - but the electric window was stuck down and the car smelled of petrol! Our new car is LOVELY! It´s a Volvo and we´ve called it Sahara. It even has heated seats.
Aunty M came down from London over the weekend to keep Mummy company as Daddy was working away. The weather wasn´t that brilliant though, so he came back a few hours earlier. Well, actually thats not true... he got a bit lost on the way home, but he found us in the end.
Not sure what we´ll be doing in Spain for the next couple of weeks, but you can bet I´ll be giving my Osh Kosh bathers (I got three - how lucky am I?) lots of use.

Talk soon, love Little Lottie xxx

Hola from sunny Spain...

Hello all,
Just a quick note from Spain, to let you know that I survived the plane journey and the heat!
I have been here for five days now - we leave tomorrow. We were supposed to leave today and we were almost on the plane when Mummy remembered she had left the keys to our car (which is at the airport in Bristol) in my baby bag... in the back of Paps´car. So he had to pick us up and we´ll try again tomorrow.
It was ok though - it meant Mummy and I could go to the cemetery to visit Nana. It is only open three days a week.
I went to my first ever restaurant on Monday night - the Wok Buffet Chinese restaurant in Guardamar. AND I had my first holiday romance with a little boy at the table next to us. He looked a little younger than me, but I had my sparkly dress and matching pants on, so Aunty Claire took me over to blow him a kiss. He seemed a little immature and a bit of a Mummy´s Boy, but as holiday romances go, it wasn´t a bad one.

Do you like my new dressing gown and bikini? Uncle Gerry from Toronto brought presents for me from all kinds of people I haven´t met yet. I´m going to need another wardrobe soon...
Mummy and I are coming back to Spain next week, so I´ll talk to you then.

Lots of love, Little Lottie xxx

Viva visa...

Me in an outfit Nana Sandra sent me

Hi all,
What a week its been! Mummy, Daddy and I went to London on Monday to get Daddy´s visa sorted out but we got stuck in horrendous traffic on the M25 just outside London. We missed the appointment and it took us four hours to reach the next motorway junction. Grrrrrrrrr. So we spent the whole day in the car for nothing.

Thankfully, they were able to see us on Wednesday so we all piled back into the car and went back to London. Third time lucky! Hurrah - Daddy has a visa and can stay with Mummy and me in the UK forever if he wants. Another long day for us all, but I was very well behaved.

Today has been more travel - we went to South Wales to get my passport. We needed to get it done immediately as we´re all flying to Spain on an aeroplane later tonight. My Nana Sandra died on Thursday, so I am going to give Grandpa Len lots of cuddles and smiles to try and make him feel better.

I´ll write more once I´ve been on a plane!

Lots of love, Little Lottie xxx

On the road again...

Hi all,
I was off camping last weekend with Mum and Dad, and it was great fun. I helped them with the stall, but there were also lots of old fashioned fairground rides. I really fancied a go on the Helter Skelter, but I think I´m still a bit small...

I had my passport pictures taken this week - they´re much better than the first ones we got a couple of weeks back.

We´re off up to London on Monday, as we need to go back to the Home Office for Daddy´s UK visa application. I´m hoping its not going to be as hot as it was last time. And fingers crossed it all goes well for us.

Mummy thinks I am musical - she says I was playing air piano in my car seat the other day. I do like music, almost as much as I like smiling. I am smiling most of the time I am awake now. Crying is for babies!

I´ll let you know how we get on in London...

Talk soon, love Little Lottie xxx

Earning my keep...

Hello!
Big news from me this week - I helped Daddy at work. He´s been so busy this last week or so with all the tourists, so yesterday Mummy and I went to help him.
I wore my best pink babygro (although I did fill it with a nappy blow-out later on... damn Veggie Chilli) and sat under the stall. I kept quiet but if someone was trying on a particularly unflattering piece of jewellery, I tried my best to let them know by crying.

I´m helping out again this weekend, as Daddy is doing a three-day event in Portsmouth. Mummy, Daddy, Zeus and I are all piling into the campervan and heading down there. What an adventure.

Mummy is organising my passport this weekend, too, so I should be up up and away in next to no time.

Aunty Claire went back to Spain this week, and mum has taken to eating these flourescent orange crunchy sandwiches. Wotsits, I think she called them. Or cheese doodles.

The Health Visitor saw me today and says that I am eating plenty and growing at the right rate. I am 10lb 11oz, so have put on quite a bit since my debut six weeks ago.

Anyway, I´d better go. I think I´ll be helping out on the stall again today. Time to ask for pocket money, I think.

Talk soon, love Little Lottie

I'm a little bit sleepy...

Just the three of us...

Here's Mummy, Daddy and I taken this week.
My Doggy Zeus wouldn't get in the picture, but really there are four of us in this family.

Don't Mummy and Daddy look tired? They keep talking about sleep depravation, but I', sleeping seven hours at night now. They've nothing to complain about!

Talk soon, love Little Lottie xxx

Busy summer...

Hi all,
Sorry for my slackness in posting, but I have been so busy.
I took my first trip to London two weeks ago, to see the Queen. And the Home Office. Not bad for a four week old (as I was then...). Mummy says she was 11 before she got to go to London.
I was a really good girl and slept all the way there, and when I got there, Aunty M and Uncle Dom were there to give me lots of cuddles and show me around their garden. It was lovely.

Then Uncle Len, Aunt Michelle and cousin James came down for the weekend from Wales. It was lovely to get to meet them. I practically live in the vibrating chair they bought me.

Aunty Claire came over from Spain for Mummy's birthday and has taken about a hundred photos of me this week. She and Mummy took me on my first shopping expedition - to Barnstaple - this week. I wasn't so keen when we went on Monday and screamed my way around the shops. It was 37 degrees in my stroller, I'll have you know.
But we went back again yesterday and I loved it. I even had my first public nappy change... at Marks and Spencer, no less!!!

I can almost hold my head up now, am focusing more clearly on things and am starting to chuckle a little. I think I'm doing great!

Daddy has been working lots, but has been keeping me busy with his 'Dropzone' theme park ride he has created just for me. He is so funny. And he's been massaging mand rubbing my legs lots - Aunty Nicole told him I would love it. She was right. Can't wait to meet her, too!

Grandpa Otto may be coming from Florida to see me in a couple of weeks. And hopefully if Nandra is feeling better, I'll be going to see Nana and Grandpa Len in Spain in early September. Its all go for me!

Talk soon, Love Little Lottie xxx

Growing up so quickly...

Hi again,
I´ve had a very busy few days!
I finally got to watch an England game - I´d heard most of them when I was in Mummy´s tummy, but this was the first one I watched in person. Damn those Portugese. Ah well, I´ve a lifetime of tears to get used to, where England are concerned.

Aunty M and Uncle Dominic came downto watch the England ame with us. It was the first time I had met them. they are lovely. they brought me a mobile for my cot and lots of lovely smelly stuff for Mum. Aunty M is a good singer, too. She got me off to sleep on many an occasion. She and Uncle Dom took care of me so Mummy and Daddy could have a rest. It was fun.

Then on Monday, Mummy had a job interview that lasted four hours so Daddy had to take me out and keep me entertained. He drove me to Exeter, where Aunty Claire and Aunty Bo were arriving for a quick visit. I was pleased to see them, but I was also very hungry and missed my Mummy, so cried a bit. It was the longest I have been out of the house and I think I did very well.

Aunty Bo made some Pumpkin Risotto for Mummy and Daddy, but I´m not sure about Pumpkin yet. It gave me wind.

And the biggest news - my health visitor came to measure and weigh me this week. I have gone up to 8lb 13oz, which is fantastic! Not sure long I am, though. Unfortunately there was a bit of a commotion going on when they did that - I had a leaky nappy and poohed all over the measuring board. I won´t be able to show my face in there again...

Talk soon,
Love Little Lottie xxx

If you're happy and you know it...

Hi again,
Another quick update from Devon.
Mum and Dad are trying to get back into a routine, and so as I mentioned last time, I got a trip to the supermarket. I was so looking forward to seeing what stuff I could get Mum to buy for me, but I got a bit sleepy and missed the whole thing.

I'm a bit of an night owl at the moment, but my parents are doing a marvellous job.
Zeus is being really good too - he just likes to sniff my smelly nappies and lick my feet. It really tickles.

I was going to London next Monday to meet Aunty M and Uncle Dom, but Aunty Claire and Aunty Bo from Australia are going to come and cook dinner for mum and dad instead. I'm sure I'll get to London soon - it is a bit far away for me anyway.

Thanks to everyone for their emails and good wishes - I will make sure I get this updated as often as I am able. So much to do... and I'm only 10 days old!!!

Talk soon,
Lots of love Little Lottie xxx

What a life...

Hi again,
Mum and Dad are still a bit busy trying to get me into a routine, so i thought I'd update this while they have a nap.

Not much new to report. I am feeding around the clock and really enjoying it. I'm trying not to be greedy, but its just so yummy.

I am sleeping for up to four hours at a time, which I believe is rather good for my age... I am only four days old, after all!

Daddy thinks I look a bit like Grandpa Len in Spain, but I haven't seen him yet. I'll let you know what I think. I know I have Mummy's eyebrows and my Dad's nose.

All in all, we're doing well. I'm going on my first outing to Tesco's this afternoon. Not sure what to expect - I hear they have fantastic romper suits and babygrows.

Talk soon,
Love Little Lottie xxx

Welcome to my world

Hello!
I'm Charlotte, and I was born on Monday June 19th 2006 at 9.35pm. The above pictures are me with my Mum and Dad. They seem really nice so far.

I'm going to be a tall girl - I am very long and have runners legs. Dad says I have fuzzy eyebrows... like he can talk! I've told him thats how complexes start.

I like to talk alot. As soon as mum delivered my head I was chatting away. I spoke to Aunty Claire in Australia on the phone this morning. I think talking is one of my favourite things to do. Oh, apart from eat and go in the swinging chair Uncle Len and Aunt Michelle got for me. It's fab.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hello. I will get Mum and Dad to update this as often as they can - they seem very tired for some reason.

Looking forward to meeting you all,
Love Little Lottie xxx