The Little Mummy

2009 saw the birth of a number of new siblings to our daughter's friends in mother's group. As such, she's been surrounded by babies of varying ages throughout the year.

D is quite the little mother - she always has been. She loves playing with her dolls - feeding them, putting them to bed, pushing them around in their prams. She also is naturally drawn to babies. If there is a baby in the room, she will go to it. If there is a baby on a TV show, she will point it out. If there is a baby in a book, she will be sure to spot it.

One day after returning home from swimming lessons, she went off hunting in Daddy's office for something. After seeing one of the mums carrying her new little baby in a carrier, she went and found my old carrier, and this was how I found her...

Music in the blood

Our daughter LOVES music - singing, dancing, banging around on instruments, shakers, blowing whistles - anything musical!

Early in 2009, Daddy introduced her to an iPod shuffle

She's recently taken to making up her own little songs. She sung one to me the other day and told me "Mummy, it's not on any of my CD's" and I said "No", at which she continued with "We should put it on a CD"...

We also currently have on loan from the library some "drum shapes". They are actually proper drum skins with large thick edges that you can hold while you hit them. So one day on her own, without any prompting from us, she got into my cupboards and found some plastic containers, placed the skins on top of them, set them up around her in formation (just like a drum kit) and started playing them.

Anyhow, that's an aside. Last year, I took her along to a music class for about two terms and she really enjoyed it. There were some photos taken during one of the sessions. Here's a few...

The Family Camping Trip

Hubby's eldest brother decided that for his 40th birthday last year (in February), he wanted the whole (extended) family to go camping at Lennox Heads. It was a feat to organise with young children in tow, but was a really great time! It was our sister in law's birthday the same day so it was a double celebration.

For his actual birthday, we all went to a cool little Mexican restaurant not far from where we stayed. We had two very tired little girls at the end of the night though...

And so 2009 begins...

We had the in laws staying with us over the Christmas / New Year period so the house was full and there were lots of family gatherings.

All the kids in our mother's group are born within weeks of each other, so it is common that in December / January we have a string of birthday parties to attend.

And so began 2009...

Grandpa's birthday party

Sharing Mummy and Daddy's air conditioned bedroom with the cat

A friend's birthday party



A shopping treat - free face painting



Family outing to Mary Cairncross on Australia Day



No photos please! - Just kidding...



Our 15th wedding anniversary - Aunty Kate was staying at the time so we got to go out for a real posh (child free) dinner! It was lovely...

Highlights from late 2008

The last time I was blogging towards the end of 2008, our daughter was about to turn 2.

Here's some photo highlights for the remainder of 2008...

Combination swimming and sliding

2008 Christmas photo shoot



Yes those are undies!



Practising fishing with Daddy and Amir (the cat!)



Doing a bit of building



Opening presents...



...with a bit of help



Trying out the new blackboard



The birthday girl arrives at her party (led down the stairs by Daddy) - I love this photo! I think it's really special.



Ready to blow out the candles



Exhausted at the end of a great party!



Christmas and birthday presents - new tricycle and blackboard



Tuckered out on Christmas Day - new Princess pillow and doona set



Fishing with Daddy and Grandpa (with her new rod!)

It's time to start blogging again...

Well it's been over a year since I blogged last - how incredibly slack of me!

A lot has happened during that time so I'll endeavour to do a few blogs over the next little while to fill in the gaps.

More recently, my husband and I celebrated our daughter's third birthday - how the time flies! You know your little girl is growing up when she receives lip gloss for her birthday and knows exactly what to do with it!

We had a little gathering at home with my extended family a week earlier than her "big" party. She had loads of fun and was incredibly spoilt. Having a birthday just before Christmas makes it sort of present overload, which I'm not sure is necessarily a good thing. She loves it of course, but it is a little overwhelming receiving so many gifts within days of each other.


My husband and I also launched into a new business venture late November that is keeping us very busy. I'm not actually working in the shop but doing a bunch of administrative stuff (which is what I'm much better at!).

Well that's all for this blog. My next one, I'll start to catch up where I left off in 2008.