My baby girl is three.

Today we celebrated Eva's third birthday.

It truly seems impossible that I set eyes upon my tiny baby girl three years ago today.

That tiny baby girl is now a feisty,  gorgeous,  blond , determined,  cheeky, comical , dancing , singing , acting, blue eyed firecracker.

There are many times that this little one has driven me to the edge of sanity, too many sleepless nights to count but id not change a single thing about her.

To me she is perfect.

She looks like an angel just like Gypsie did as a toddler and she has Summers temperament.

Im blessed to be her mummy.

Always a reason to celebrate .

Dispite most of us still being a bit off colour, these past two days have been a lot of fun.

Yesterday morning the kids worked on there main lessons ( charlie finished his maths calendar block, summer wrote about mumification , Jasmine finished writing about Columbus and Gypsie made and wrote about a pin hole camera ) and then after lunch we headed off out to my sisters to celebrate my nieces birthday.
Its the first time we have all needed to go.out as a family in the car since Robbie birth and unfortunately we can no longer all fit in our car! This ment Jasmine had to catch the bus, but she wasnt alone as one of my other sisters were with her.....Time for us to get a mini bus perhaps !!!!!

Well , we had a lovely afternoon, chatting , playing party games and eating cake.I hope my niece enjoyed herself as much as her guests. I cant believe Shes five already .

The children have worked hard this week on their lessons and today was what we call "free day Friday "..... A nice slow day has been spent with them dipping in and out of various crafts.
Mostly of a Chinese new year theme .calendars have been decorated (Charlie drew a soldier on his) butterfly adorn the kitchen window, Porcelain dragons have been painted, paper lanterns folded, glitter globes, and more.Gypsie was inspired to draw a picture of a lantern after looking through one of our books.

To finish off our Chinese inspired day I made us all a chow men for our dinner this evening .Its been a great couple of days, now if we can just shake of the lingering germs that would be totally amazing.

Xxx

Allan's birthday.

Today has been about , balloons , a gorgeous cake,  a cute puppy , family time and a bit of maths .

Our home was the venue for a little family party. (i say little my family is pretty huge..and although were missing one sister and her children and one brother and his wife..today there was mum, dad, two of my sisters , two brothers and one of there girl friends and their lovely puppy, my five gorgeous little ones and me too our house was pretty full)

Mum insisted as it was her idea she was going to do all the cooking and appered every few hours with plates of food for a lovely tea! Its a good job we live in the same road !

Allans lovely girlfriend surprised him with a wonderful cake she had had made especially for him. He is a D.J on fire radios breakfast show .The radio cake was even tuned in to fire on the dial ...a cute little detail.

We dont see my brother all that often as he doesn't live here on the island anymore. It was  great to share his birthday with him.

The kids were excitedly blowing up balloons and putting up a banner , buying him chocolate with their pocket money and writing a birthday greeting on the chalk board before his arrival .

The little bit of accidental maths happened this morning too when jasmine abduction Charlie were making gift boxes. Jasmine has some ideas for little gifts she would like to make people for Christmas . She found a box template online and printed several on to card. Her and Charlie then folded and taped the boxes together. Jasmine has since been to the shop for glitter and glue so i will wait untill they are finished before sharing them on here.

Besides all this what else has been happening .......

More Christmas card making from Gypsie , summer and Eva.
Some healthy juice making , wii game playing, you tube video watching and lego playing....

We have had a lovely day.

Happy birthday Eva.

Carefully chosen gifts ,endless bubble blowing,skinny dipping in the pool ,blowing out candles .....all under the watchful eye (ok , in my case a little tearful ) of the the people who love you the most in the whole world.

Eva rae  you are the most beautiful ,perfect two year old daughter i could ever wish for .with you big twinkling blue eyes,your cheeky ways and your white blond hair. Im so proud of you and so grateful that i get to be your mummy .

Happy second birthday beautiful girl !