Fritilary Picnic

This Thursday, Anastasia organized a walk and picnic for us.
Here are the photos:
We walked out of the back of Magdalen College;




And round to see the deer!
You may have to enlarge this one to get a proper view!
All of us watching the deer!
Smiling children in the April sunshine!

The main reason I have difficulty getting out of bed!

You can disagree with me, but I think there's nothing quite as warm, and cosy, and soft, and lovely as a sleeping baby!

And, Bless her, she sleeps a LOT! I'm sure this will come back round to bite me, but at the moment it's just SO GOOD!

My family and other animals!

Our last Sunday without church!

This was our last Sunday before going back to church (this Sunday is actually 39 days, rather than 40, but I think everyone will be understanding!). So we went to Blenheim Palace for a run-around in the Spring sunshine!
Here's the children's favourite tree:




Then we took the train......



...to the butterfly house!


Fun, huh?
But we're still looking forward to going back to church this Sunday!

This is what our life looks like right now!

Well, Tabby-Kat has made her first trip to IKEA
But most of the time she's still spending asleep.
Here's Guy stroking her hand and head. He is very gentle with her, despite the slightly demonic look on his face!

And he still finds time for his friends!

However, he does find all this change very tiring!

Phoebe has been experimenting with the camera. This is Phoebe's portrait of Daddy,
And of Mummy!

This is Marianna, one of our friends from church.

Who made this beautiful blanket for Tabitha. Isn't it lovely?

Catch up!

Well, the weather here is getting better, slowly! Because of the Cesarean, my particular Lenten penance is to walk everywhere (in all kinds of weather!) until the Doctor gives me the 'all clear' to drive.
You can imagine how much I enjoy the walk to school at the moment!

On the bright side, lots of our friends have been visiting us. At home, and at Grandma's where we've also been spending quite a lot of time recently!

Phoebe is loving being a big sister again, and having a baby to cuddle.
Daddy's behavior sometimes gives us cause for concern, though.......

So, here she is:

Tabitha Kathryn at a few hours old!
It only took a few hours for her name to be abbreviated to Tabby-Kat!
The monobrow is a combination of her actual eyebrow and the forceps marks. Annoyingly, despite a long (22 hours) and mainly gentle labour, I got stuck at 6 cm (A-GAIN!), so we ended up with another Cesarean, and I got another infection, and we had to stay in hospital a-GAIN!
It seems my pelvic shape is triangular, which is called an 'android' pelvis, and can make it hard for a larger, posterior baby to turn during delivery to fit through. Which seems to be why we keep getting stuck in the same situation

Here's Michelle enthusing about spending time with someone less than 24 hours old!
At one day old in her hospital bassinet/fish tank thing.


Grandma and Auntie Sox admiring the newest addition.
By the third day in hospital we'd gone through all the girly baby-gros and she was into Guy's hand-me-down's. This nice blue one has cars on it!

Now, true to her name, the Tabby-Kat spends most of her time eating and dozing in front of the fire!
So, anyway, forgive me for my rather shoddy blogging record recently! I promise to do better!