Some photos.... As promised :-)

As promised, below is some photos of Hayley's 2nd Birthday Party.

The cutest little birthday girl with photos of the snacks and the cake I baked

Having some fun on her new trampoline

A sweet 2nd birthday

On 3 March 2013 my beautiful little princess turned 2 years old.  (I put my head down in shame for only blogging about this now)

 

What a bittersweet day.

 

We had a party at home, but without going as way out as with her first birthday.  We invited family and close friends.  Had a few snack platters for the adults, drinks, party packs for the kids and I made a birthday cake.

 

We bought Hayley a trampoline.  It was adorable seeing the excitement on her face when she saw her gift.  I think it was a good investment and something that she will be enjoying for years to come.

 

She was spoiled rotten by family and friends and received clothes and lots of new toys to play with.  The day was spend just having fun and I was honoured in having my gran joining in the festivities.

 

I look back at photos of my pregnancy, Hayley’s birth and those first few weeks and I cant believe my little girl has grown so much. 

 

Happy belated birthday mommy’s little angel!

 

Thanks for being such a blessing and I pray that we will still have years and years of birthday parties to celebrate together.

 

Love you to the moon and back!

 

(More photos of the day to follow)

Mommy's birthday girl

Hello :-) I am back :-)

Wow!  I’ve been missing in action for such a long time.  Hopefully things will change soon.

 

Since my last post my beautiful girl turned 2, I started an awesome new job and my wonderful parents moved to Rheebok.

For now I will only post an update on my little girl.

 

She is growing up so fast.  Potty training is going really well, she is mostly just sleeping in a nappy, further she is mostly in her little panties and hardly has any oopsies.  I’m such a proud mother.

She is doing great at school.  She knows quite a few children songs with movements and spontaneously sings when asked.  She counts from 1 – 10 in both English and Afrikaans and can also count objects.  She recently started saying ‘sirkel’ and is also drawing circles all over the house.  She speaks really well and has finally stopped referring to herself in the third person.  Lately she also started to play by herself and will keep herself entertained either in her room or in the living area for long periods at a time.

 

We still struggle with sleep.  We have really good nights and really bad nights.  We’ve now had 4 really bad nights in a row and I’m so tired, but I’ve come to accept my fate around sleep and just hoping and praying that the sleep issues will be resolved by the time she turns 3.

That’s all for now and by next week I would do a separate post to update on Hayley’s 2^nd birthday party as well as share some photos.

 

Chat again really soon

 

xxx

A new bedroom for my princess

I've been considering re-doing Hayley's room for a while now.  I was so tired of the Hello Kitty theme and feeling restricted.  I wanted to do something girly where I can sometimes change the curtains, add scatter cushions  change the wall art, carpet in her room etc.

So this morning I decided to go and just see what I can find and I'm so happy with the outcome of her room.

She's been sleeping on her big bed, but we took the base of, and we've been accident free for a while now, so I also decided to move her room and but the base of the bed back.  So wish me luck that she does not fall of tonight.

What do you guys think?

Before

After

So we went and collected Pippie the puppy....

... along with Max her brother.  Oh boy!

So a few weeks ago I wrote a post about Hayley's first puppy, that we are going to name Pippie.

On Friday the owner phoned to say we can come and collect her.  As we got there they already had Pippie seperate from the rest of the puppy's and as we were about to leave, this little creature came out of no where, ran straight to Hayley and they just collected.

That is how we ended up with 2 puppies instead of one. :-)

Pippie is such a gentle little thing.  She was the last born and also the smallest.  But a little tough cookie, already jumping of the couches and chewing everything in her way.  She also sleeps alot!  Way more than other puppies.  She will be running and playing and if you look again she sits up straight, fast asleep.  She is also very independant and does her own thing.

Max, our big boy, is scared, does not try anything he does not feel safe doing.  Wants loads of attention and to be picked up constantly, but he is so cute and loves Hayley.  Hayley also adores him and prefers playing with him and picking him up.

It feels as if our house is filled with 3 toddlers at the moment and it's crazy, but I love every moment spend with my husband child and our new additions.

Pippie to the left and Max to the right

Hayley and Pippie

A lovely day spent at the Botanical Gardens

So the Sunday after my birthday we stopped at the shop and bought some snacks and drove through to the Botanical Gardens.

I love taking Hayley there.

She normally runs around like crazy, we play ball, eat and just spent some family time together.  Best part of all is that it is a brilliant place to take some stunning photos.  I'm no talented photographer and really just own a 'mik en druk' camera, but I always love the photos we get from here the most.

Here is some photo's of our day, we had such an awesome time.

The big 3-0 celebration

So... on 2 February 2013 I turned 30!

We had a braai at our house from 12 the afternoon and had around 30 people over.  It was a super busy day, but I loved every moment.  It was awesome having all my friends, family and loved one's to share this big birthday with me.

It was great fun and the last guests only left our house at 10 the evening.

I was so tired, but happy and I felt so special.

I was spoiled with loads of gifts and I am glad that I ended up having a party.