Lee & Lucy’s Travel Blog

Since Katelyn’s 1st Birthday fell mid-week, we thought it would be best to have a little party the weekend before, so that most people could make it.

What started off an a simple get together for “tea & cake” slowly spiralled out of control.  A few sandwiches turned into a buffet and the teas & coffees turned into beer and wine (and plenty of it) … and there was still lots of cakes!

I’d set-up an SD card full of Katelyn’s photos to play a slide-show on the Wii.  Showing everything from the baby-scans to now. I had to change the background music a few times, as some of the default music on the Wii made the slide-show look like a memorial rather than a celebration.  The slide-show last about half-an-hour, I was impressed that it made 3 cycles before anyone complained!!!

After the party, we thought that everyone would be sick of cake, tired and wanting to go home… but no! Danny wanted to challenge me on Mario Kart, how could I refuse? Then turned into a bit of a tournament involving everyone! It was a good laugh!

For Katelyn’s real 1st Birthday, Aunty Lisa came down to visit for a few days. We took a day-trip to Cheddar… and yes, we bought some cheese!

Later on whilst we were doing a Skype video call with my Mum (Nana), Lucy surprised Katelyn with yet another birthday cake! This time it was “death by chocolate cake”!
(I’m sure there’s an Eddie Izzard gag there somewhere?)

According to the news, it’s the worst snow the UK has seen for 18 years! It has been falling pretty heavy for most of the day.

We were quite excited as this is the first time that Katelyn has seen snow, although she’s a bit young for a snowball fight… but that didn’t stop little Anita asking Lucy & I to go outside just so she could throw snow at us!

It’s been a while since our last post. As usual, we’ve had lots on, but never enough time (or make enough time) to tell you about it (whoever still reads this).

Katelyn is coming on loads, each week she develops something new. She’s been trying to crawl, but seems far more interested in standing up and trying to walk (with assistance from us or the coffee table, or anything about half-a-metre high!)

A couple of weeks ago, Katelyn’s first tooth started to come through. Our lovely full-night sleeps were disrupted once more! But we shouldn’t complain, as we’ve heard that we’ve got it easy. The end of breast-feeding is imminent! (ouch)

After weeks of persuasion, Lucy convinced me that it was a good idea to get a real Christmas tree. Of course I was thinking about the environment… the thought of millions of pine needles on the carpet never entered my mind! The agreement was that Lucy would be responsible for hovering up the pine needles.

We are celebrating Christmas at the Farm with Lucy’s family. Then we’re up to Liverpool on Boxing Day to catch-up with my family, (and debate sleeping arrangements). We’ll be heading back home at New Year. (Please don’t burgle our house whilst we’re away, all you’ll find is dirty bibs & nappies anyway)

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and New Year for 2009, lots of love (and hugs) from Lee, Lucy and Katelyn xxx

We bought a new (small) video camera a couple of weeks ago. (For those who are interested, it’s a Flip Video Ultra – it’s compact and has a funky flip-out USB built-in; so we can upload videos from anywhere.)

Katelyn seems to be progressing quickly at the moment… from her gibber-gabber to dancing in her bouncer and even starting to get more mobile (rolling around on her play-mat). We’re dreading her starting to crawl! We’ve uploaded a selection of video clips, you can either watch them here (or on our YouTube page).

Hope you enjoy the video clips.

We have had a very busy 6 months. But it’s been amazing.
Katelyn settled into life at home after keeping Nana Tyrer up all night the first night home.
She found an infectious smile very early and later an infectious giggle.

We had a lovely day on 6th July for her Christening. Thanks to everyone who joined us and for all Katelyn’s beautiful presents. A special Thank-you to Emily and Steve for letting us have the party at theirs.

One of Katelyn’s favourite pastimes is snuggling up with her Daddy and having a sleep. Lee is very good and often puts himself out for his little girl.

She takes after her Mummy and loves her food. We started her on solids about 4 weeks ago and she has loved every new taste. I can’t get the spoon loaded quickly enough.

Lee and I are making the most of the time before Katelyn starts crawling, though we know it wont be long. She can roll on to her tummy and wriggles round in a circle but still stays where we put her!!!

There are lots more photos of Katelyn in the photos section. Take a look if you have the time!!!!

We look forward to the next 6 months and all it brings.

Photo by d70focus

Yesterday there was an attempted hack on our website. We managed to sort it out before any damage was done, but it was a close call!

If you notice anything suspect with the website, (like strange dodgy links to porno sites), then let us know straight away.

I’ve written more about it on my other blog.