Monday, August 14, 2006

More birthday pics of Erikas great big FIRST Birthday

















Erika had a really nice day. She spent the morning playing with her mummy and her new baby doll and her teddy in the rocking chair. She wore a special hair tie bought specially for her big-girl day and looked so pretty!
She was very happy and laughed and smiled until I took her to daycare. She had fun at daycare with her lovely carers and all her friends.
I picked her up early and we went home to play.
She got a flash tent from her Grandad and Brenda which she loves and plays with ALL the time. She can do all the stuff on it which makes her feel very big. She got a spunky cord jacket from her Nana and a cool blue outfit with some shoes. As you can see she looks older than she is with her grown up jacket on. She got given a beautiful chocolate teddy cake which Luca made specially for her and Renata bought round to have a little party with us. Renata also bought her some balloons which she took massive delight in - especially when one popped. Erika thought that was hilarious and she tried to pop the rest after that. She had a very cool number 1 birthday candle which she tried really hard to blow out.
Her favorite thing was watching her mummy get banged on the head with a balloon... yay.
She also got a really cool pink jacket, blue pants and a funky sport jacket from our lovely neighbour Mary and an awesome pair of pink pants and a blue cord hat from her cousins Dylan and Ryan and Aunty Andrie and Uncle Michael which matches her jacket from Nana!
Erika was lucky enough to get a cute doll from them as well and a cuddly doll with really long hair from Poppa.
After having some cake and dinner we jumped in the car and raced off to play with Daddy then took the very very tired big girl home to her bed.
WHAT a big day!

Erika has done ONE whole trip around the sun!!


HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY!




Happy Birthday beautiful baby girl!
Heres some pictures of her big day:




Monday, August 07, 2006

Posing with Teddy

Who's more cute? Me or teddy??
Erika started back at daycare on Wednesday last week. Her Nana got a job working at an old folks nursing home so Erika went back to Bright Minds daycare where she was going before, and has the same
She did really well, but has now become really clingy. She is not dealing with separation very well, and when she is with me she sticks like glue. I think she will get over this quite quickly, she has proved to be fairly adaptable so far and Im sure this will be no exception.

We're all going on a ...summer holiday...

Erika loves teddies!
Not just soft toys, she also loves them printed on towels, in pictures and books.

Contents of basket - free to a good home...

Beautiful, Entertaining and Heaps of work!
(We wouldnt give her away really.... she costs lots :)

Our big girl is turning 1 year old... what a year!
Happiness, sadness, laughter, tears, exhaustion and elation.... definately the best experience ever.