Our Baby - All Growed Up

Baby A has just turned 2. Not a baby any more. My poor heart breaks :(

Of course she's much more fun but there is something about her turning 2 that means the baby years are behind us.

We had a great family day on her actual birthday - a rare day with just myself, Mr Big & Baby A. We had the party the day after, so we had 'protected time' on the day itself.

We had breakfast in bed and presents of course! Baby A was more interested in the eggs than in her gifts, much to Mr Big's and my amusement. We were grateful as I expect she will know all about presents by age 3 and that'll be that - no more innocence around getting gifts - she'll be ripping off paper faster than we can blink & asking where the next one is, before we know it.

We had a great day & took bubba to the beach so she could 'go running with the doggies' as she puts it. She can never keep up with said doggies , but she just loves seeing dogs on the beach, and we always go up & pet them, which she enjoys. I know just how much she loves this for certain now as on the way there, she pipes up from her car seat 'Mummy, we going to the beach?'. I said we were and she said 'I go running with the doggies, Mummy. I love it! I love it! I LOVE IT!' - it made my day to know we'd struck gold with her choice of activity on her birthday!

Here are some pics from the day. I haven't got any from the beach on my phone so I'll have a chat to Mr Big for those.

If I ever work out how to get things to 'talk to each other' faster than they do now, then I'll also post vids. Getting annoyed that it seems so laborious at the moment though!

WM xx

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