I can hardly believe Emily is two. It really is true that children emphasise the passage of time. It only seems like yesterday that she was born. I suppose I will be saying that every day! Well she had a great day.

The theme for Emily’s birthday was a Teddy Bears Picnic, with teddy invites, party bags and cakes (as demonstrated above, Emily took great pleasure in helping cut out the teddies!). I was hoping I could get Warren to dress up in a big furry teddy bear suit, but no such luck. All the teddies came down to play and everyone had a good time. We took a few digital photos (plus aps ones which have yet to be developed), they’re not the greatest but at least its a record of the days events.

She was totally spoilt and had tons of presents. Thanks so much everyone. We tried to be restrained when getting her gifts, its just as well the amount she received from everyone else. She had a ball opening them all and is totally getting the hang of this party lark. A very social little girl! We had a party later which was fun for both the adults and the kids, although I was completely knackered after everyone had gone.

I think I go a bit crazy when it comes to Emilys birthday, with all the organising and everything. But I enjoy it, I really do. Mind you this is a mad week with only one birthday free day so we will just have to see how much energy I have for it all in the future!

Happy Birthday my gorgeous little girl!

I can’t remember the last time I posted about Emily’s development. Sometimes I look at her and I can’t believe how much she has progressed and how big she seems. Where’s my little baby?! She just seems like such a grown up these days.

Her language skills have come on so fast. Over the past couple of months she has gone from trying to say the odd word to practically holding conversations with you. It has even got to the point now where we have realised that she listens to every word you say and even joins in the conversation! We are really going to watch what we say now. She is copying everything and trying to say a lot new things very successfully, we only have to say something once and it sticks. She can even count to ten! We think this is just brilliant!

Yesterday morning was hilarious. I was dressing her and asking her what she wanted for breakfast. She said she wanted Cheerios. She then said ‘Mommy Cheerios’ and I said to her “Is mommy having Cheerios too?” She confirmed what I would be having for breakfast and then I asked her what Daddy was having for breakfast and she said “Broccoli”!!! This just made my day. I am laughing just thinking about it. I think I should’ve put Warren a plate of broccoli out and made him eat it!

Look what I bought yesterday! The woman in the shop probably thought I was a complete loon because I nearly jumped up for joy and gave her a big kiss when I saw that they sold these!

I had been looking for them everywhere, but it seemed places had stopped stocking them. Mom even managed to find a supplier of a similar one on the web but with no supply details. So when I walked in the little shop in Bangor yesterday it made my day (who would’ve thought I could get so excited by a potty).

You see, Emily’s friend Cameron (who is now 6) had one and now uses it as a seat in the garden (the potty bit comes out and there is a lid to convert it into a chair) and Em loves playing with it when we are round his house. Also, because she is getting quite tall the little floor potties look so uncomfortable, its no wonder she hates sitting on them.

I am going to let her get used to playing with this for a while as a chair and build up to the actual nappies off time and hopefully by then she will love it. Fingers crossed.