Leila and Charlotte

I met Olivia at the CSA a few days before Leila was born, when we were trying to start the baby group there.  Olivia was nearly as heavily pregnant as I was (!) and gave birth to Charlotte in the same hospital as Leila was born in just a few weeks later.  We used to all go the CSA baby group as well as Bounce and Rhyme together and the occasional CSA coffee or Wadi Degla walk.  

We were really sad to hear that Olivia and Charlotte were needing to stay in the UK after the summer because of problems with her husband’s job here in Cairo, and that they would be leaving Cairo permanently in January.  It was really lucky then that we managed to bump into them at Cairo airport when they came back for a short trip to collect their final things from their flat here.  We arranged to have a play date at the BCA a few days later, as this would be a better chance to catch up and for Leila and Charlotte to play.

Leila and Charlotte sort of played together, but this mainly involved toddling around the BCA in generally the same direction, then getting overly tired and hungry just before home time.  We remembered to grab our cameras out to capture their reunion only at the end of the play date, and so managed to get Charlotte’s ‘tired face’ and Leila’s ‘I’m texting face’