Sunday 23 July 2006

This is Lauren playing with her toys. She is 8 months old today, and despite the red cheeks, there are still no teeth! She is slowly getting over her cold - she has a bad cough and a lovely crusty nose, but otherwise seems fine. She is her usual happy, smiley self and manages to persuade everyone to love her. She has been off her food a little, but has regained her appetite over the past day or so. She's started eating fish this week, and is enjoying it.

This week has been fairly quiet - just wanted to take things easy for Lauren and make sure that she stayed warm rather than having her out & about in the Auckland winter. However, we did go to Playgroup on Thursday morning - which started up again after being closed for school holidays. She enjoyed seeing everyone again, and watching all the other children. On Friday she met some of Dave's cousins, as one of them (Davene) got married and we went along to celebrate and meet her partner, Carol. Saturday evening was spent at a friend's place, watching the All Blacks win, so Lauren has had a couple of late nights, and both times has fallen asleep and been really good. We're off to Ash's parents place tonight for a meal, but routine will start again on Monday.