This week in the life of Ms Wong!

The week started pretty badly with a computer disaster! I knocked a glass of wine onto my laptop. Only a few drops hit the keyboard but it was enough. I am devastated as it has all the adoption photographs from Hong Kong and China on it which I hadn't backed up! (valuable lesson learnt!). Yesterday hubby took it into a repair guy who is sure he can salvage whats on the hard drive but not sure about the computer. To be honest its the pictures that are of more value. The computer can be replaced they cant. So fingers crossed XX

Isabella and I have colds, finally after weeks of hard gums where we could feel the teeth underneath they have finally erupted, which is probably contributed to her snotty nose! So she nearly has 4 more teeth which will make 12. So we have had a couple of not so good nights, not horrendous! but where she has woken up crying, but a quick cuddle by Ma Ma normally resolves things:)

But we have still managed our marathon training, albeit a bit slower than normal with Ma Ma having to push herself! On Wednesday I had a conference call at 11.30 for the committee I belong to, but it was such a beautiful day, I emailed my apologies and Isabella and I went to one of London's city farms. She loves animals and had such a good time. She now says all the animals names, but in Cantonese! This farm also had Lama's but Ma Ma didn't know the Cantonese for them! They had this brilliant sign!




On Thursday Isabella's passport arrived, yes in only 6 days! How is that for being fast! I just wish all governmental departments were as efficient!

I took some pictures of Isabella in her toddler group, she loves climbing, singing and dancing. We only go for an hour - and hour and a half ( only open for 2 hours) but its enough to tire her out!


On Saturday, I finally started decorating our bedroom as Isabella sleeps in our room, I havent had chance yet!But Ba Ba took Isabella out on Saturday morning so I managed to sand where I had replastered over the cracks and lumps missing from the ceiling ( from loft conversion) and re-paint the ceiling. Its a start. I now need to wallpaper 1 wall and paint the other three. The glossing was only done just over 3 yrs ago so is still fine, luckily but I am changing the entire colour scheme!


Marathon training update

Tuesday 7 km - With Isabella and baby jogger ( but it killed me running with my cold!)
Thursday 7 km with Isabella and baby jogger
Sunday 13.1 miles ( 21 kms)) with hubby and Isabella in baby jogger.

Total running 21.5 miles. .

Sundays run was terrible as around 4 miles it started to drizzle and at 6 miles really rain hard. We got drenched and went on and off road ( yep up a muddy track!). But we ran a 1/2 marathon distance in 2.10 minutes which including crossing roads! Feeding Isabella! and pushing the baby jogger all that way! But we did stop off at the 02 centre and had lunch! Which was a nice reward for our efforts. But we are 1/2 way there! Next week I will keep the mid week runs the same and increase our long run to 14-15 miles. We are just taking our time and doing it slowly and really just building our fitness up as the marthon is still 5 months away.

Fundraising

Ebay sales total £ 63.27
Donations £20

Hopefully the just giving website will be up soon, it just takes a while registering and setting a charity that is not already on the website. But hopefully soon so we can really start fundraising.