Happy Birthday Baby

My little girl is 2 today. She is not a baby anymore. She lay back while i was holding her in church on Sunday and said "baby" in a begging kind of tone. You know if they are old enough to ask to be the baby they really arent anymore!
Miss J has been the eternal infant, I am sure she looks almost exactly as she did at like 5 months old, just bigger.

*i promise to add photos to the post when i am home on my own computer.
She talked later than her sister(although more now), is chubby like a baby still, still likes to be rocked and held like a baby and is a crumbling mess if i forget her "mook" (milk). She also is still in nappies unlike her sister at this age...
do a dare tell you i tried taking her nappys off the last few days- results, about 40 litres of urine on my floor, and one other accident, and...wait for it.... absolutely nothing in the toilet. So i am off to the shop to buy the kid nappies for her birthday. No, not really.

I guess all this baby behaviour has been good for quashing my cluckiness until recently...although now we are looking at a slightly unconventional way to grow our family in the near future...but more on that later.


We had a little party for J at the park where she climbed too high on the equipment, ran around with her friends and ate 5 cupcakes (4 were mini ones, ok). The weather was just warm enough and it was a great time.

Happy Birthday Baby J. Cant believe I dont have ANY babies in my house anymore!

My brave little girl

I thought i would treat the girls to a day out (well a morning anyway) so i took them to a play centre near here.

I ran into a friend there and all was good, until grace was playing chasey with some kids in the playgym and tripped. I knew it wasnt good, so i grabbed j with one arm and grace with the other and the look on the parents faces sitting down said it all. Im not sure if they were horrified coz i was rholding J by one arm letting her feet just touch the ground to get to a place where i could see, or if they were horrified because of the sheer amound of blood on my other child.
Either way, J was fine so i am not to worried about those parents, but Grace was far from fine.




She had managed to faceplant the ledge just a bit higher than a regular step that was perfectly distanced from her when she fell and who-knows-how but ended up with a 2cm split in her top lip






Some ice, a nap, baby nurofen and hi 5 later she is Ok now, but i think that when it really hurt everyone was saying "You are so brave, your such a brave girl" now she thinks brave means IN A LOT OF PAIN. When it hurts a lot she seems to get real sad looking and says 'im so brave mummy im so brave. and after i gave her the icy she says, its ok im not brave anymore...

the cutest thin is the only thing she was sad about the whole way home is that she didnt get to say bye to the little grls she was playing with. She said " i want to play with her next time, she's a beautiful girl is she mummy" (she means isnt she). im a bit sad that i never saw her little friend. Grace very rarely calls someone her friend, let alone someone she just met.

big girl birthday

Yesterday i was 2...

i painted 2 year old pictures


and sat for 2 year old photos...


TODAY i am 3...
i get a bike


and a helmet




and i get to be a ballerina (more) pics on that tomorrow!
I get visitors too like my Nan and Pop...

and lots of phone calls aswell!
I like being 3!


Happy big girl birthday miss grace, you are so grown up, i am hardly shocked you are 3, maybe a little shocked that you are only 3! Your baby strong will has developed into a strength of character and your one track focus has developed into a perseverence and patience so unusual for your age. Your kind words and sweet little manners make my day.
Love you lots,
mummy

p.s i would have posted a cute little baby pic here but i havnt been able to get them onto my new computer yet!