Happy New Year!

From kate 12 09

We had a lovely Christmas in England with the girls and Mary and Trevor. There wasnt much time for pictures as we were busy eating and having a good time but a few are in the usual place.

When we came home, we weighed and measured Katherine and she gained a healthy 310 gramms in a week! She is now a mighty 5kg 310g and 56 cm!

At the moment we are preparing to celebrate the coming of the New Year russian style, which means eating russian salad and herring "in the fur coat" and watching silly music shows on russian TV which feature the same stars as when I was young, only heavily enhanced by plastic surgery :)

First doctor check up

So last Thursday we went to a nice doctor in a village called Richterswil, not far from our place. We weighed and measured Katherine, she was 4550 g and 56 cm, head circumference of 37 cm which is all above average on the growth char. He listened to her heart and looked at her hips with ultrasound and found everything excellent :)

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Sometimes K sleeps almost 5 hours at night, and sometimes, like yesterday, almost nothing, which brings me to my tip No 1 for mums : if you dont want to wear pijamas all day sleep in your normal clothes! I do :) Besides 22-23 C feels so called for a sleepdeprived person that I sleep in a fleece anyway :)

Our little cutie smiles at her mobile quite a lot and we finally caught one of those smiles on camera!

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She also discovered my hair - I washed it so it was down and there to be grabbed, she seemed fascinated and kept stretching her arm to touch it, so we made a plait for her to play with

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More pictures to see in the album!

Katherine Elizabeth is here! since 5th of November :)

Our daughter was born on a sunny November morning and has already celebrated her 1st month birthday! She is gaining weight at record speed and is changing every day. We have noted 4th of Decmber as the date of her first concious smile and every day we see some new and amazing developments.
She likes her baths, but most of the time we spend eating, even more than sleeping it seems :)

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Our current photo album

Bump Evolution!

Our baby is growing and should have now reached the 2 kg mark! On the outside it looks like this:

From Bump

My knitting has progressed from no skills to fancy things like i-cord and 3 dimensional leaves. Here are the knitted part of the babys wardrobe, I know still a lot to do!

From Bump

Scan today

So we have seen baby Drews (code name for the time being) face, spine and thigh this morning on the ultrasound scan. She is lying head down, face down, spine on my left side. This is all correct and good. Her weight is 1456 g which is slightly above average but within the normal range. She did not want her picture taken and kept turning away, so we have none to show this time.
Next appointment is 30th of September. Watch this space :)

Spain in August is very hot....

But we did have a nice cooling swim everyday and ate lots of fish some of which has been photograped even :)


Interesting is the spanish classification of coffees, more types that in Italy I think:


There photos featuring human faces are also there:

New things at home and belly progress

We got our new bookshelf! and finally all my books are out of the cellar :)



And then we hung some family photos and it looks very -very nice



Today my iPhone says the baby is 32 cm and 771.1 g, so its growing fast!
here is what you can see from outside:
18th of July:



Yesterday (31st July)



and here is what we already have for the baby:
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u77/mashuha/baby%20things/