Monthly Archives: May 2010

Happy Birthday Ruby!

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Dear sweet Ruby,

Now you are two! What a year of milestones this has been.  You’ve learnt to walk, talk, and occasionally use the big grown up toilet.

And you’ve made some big discoveries, too.  You’ve discovered that you love to help mummy cook, especially cakes.  You’ve spent a lot of time perfecting your artistic skills, and you’ve learnt how to wrap your daddy around your little baby finger.  He’d do anything for you and don’t you know it!

We hope you enjoy being two, lovely girl, stay your sweet self.

Lots of love and a billion kisses,

Mummy and Daddy x

The Gallery – Friendship

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The theme of this weeks Gallery is Friendship, something I think we all treasure and enjoy throughout our lives.  It’s lovely to have people you can talk to, gossip with, have a cup of tea or share a bottle of wine with.  Laugh with, cry with, congratulate and console.  No one ever lay on their death bed and said, “I wish I didn’t have so many friends”.

At the age of two (minus 2 days) Ruby has a best friend, and has since she was born.  And she is extra lucky: she gets to spend all day every week day with her best friend because I look after her whilst her parents work.  Ruby’s best friend is Darcy.  I’ve watched them both grow from newborns to rambunctious, not to mention mischievous, toddlergirls.

Our flat is on the market at the moment, and we’re relocating from London to Southampton.  Darcy’s parents are from New Zealand, and they plan to move home one day, so one way or another, these two little buddies are going to be split up.  But for now they have all the time in the world.

Here is to many many more years of friendship between these two, wherever they live in the World.

We’re off to Barcelona…

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…and we’re not taking Ruby. She knew something was up and we paid for our trip away with her screaming for me until she eventually passed out, exhausted, at 11pm. I wanted to creep into her room and kiss her goodbye this morning but didn’t dare in the end.

Heartwrenching doesn’t even begin to describe it, and we now know there is no way we can leave her when we go on honeymoon later this year. So little Ruby will be honeymooning in Italy with us.

There will no doubt be a post all about our trip next week but for now, our flight is boarding.

The Gallery – Self Portrait

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I’m taking this week’s Gallery entry very literally, and also merging it with another meme that is doing the rounds on the blogosphere, despite the fact I am over a week late for it.

I am a bare naked lady.

Or at least, my face is.  (This is a family blog, you guys.)

And it’s funny that this should come around so close to my birthday because it coincides with another project I’m starting this year.  I’ve stolen Mandajuice‘s idea of taking a photo of my face, sans any kind of makeup, each year on my birthday.  The idea is that I’ll be able to see how I’m aging as it happens.

Well, my birthday is another two and a half weeks away yet, but it’s close enough.

I never leave the house without makeup on, I will always at the very least apply some mascara and lipgloss.  And under normal circumstances would never ever allow a camera to be pointed at my bare naked face.  So I feel quite brave doing this.

Toddler Party Planning

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It’s a beautiful day here in London, there is sunshine, a few wispy little clouds and best of all, it’s warm.  I threw my usual mummy uniform of skinny jeans and a t shirt in the wash and put on a skirt this morning!

Who knows, I may even go out wearing sandals today.

And weather like this really makes me feel proactive.  It makes me want to take the girls out, walk down into Tooting, have a look around the market and the fabric shop and pick up an iced coffee from Cafe Nero on the way home.  The fabric shop is definitely somewhere I’ll be heading out to today.  Ruby’s second birthday is fast approaching and now that she’s not such a little baby anymore, I’m putting a lot more time and effort into planning her party.  And that involves fabric because I’m going to be making some bunting to hang.  And I might even be brave and attempt to applique Happy Birthday on some of it.  But don’t hold me to that.

I’ve taken rather a lot of inspiration from Kelle Hampton, because that lady really does know how to throw a party, and am hosting Ruby’s soiree at the park.  Partly because I don’t enjoy cleaning stamped in cake out of the living room carpet, but mainly because we’ve bought Ruby a mini micro scooter and I know she’ll want to use it as soon as she’s ripped off the wrapping paper.  And what better place than the park?

There’s going to be tiny sandwiches, home made chicken nuggets, bowls of berries, lots and lots of little cakes.  But best of all, one very happy little girl.