Hello friends and family! Last Sunday, as you may know, we celebrated Sophie’s 2nd birthday -which is actually today, but we didn't make a big deal about today. This week Dan is flying in the Outback, and today he visited Uluru, or Ayers rock (the big red monolith in the middle of the country - famous postcard stuff.) So we had the party early. It was a small-ish party at home. Sophie had a blast! For weeks leading up to the party, she could name for you every person who was coming, and now everyday afterwards she tells me something that happened on the day. When I asked her that night what her favourite thing about her birthday party was, she answered without hesitation – “Cake! Elmo cake!” She loved the part where everybody…. “Sing Happy Day Soshie!” She also remembers playing outside, running, making cookies (just with play dough), colouring, balls, balloons, pizza, strawberries, and of course, everyone who came. She also likes to talk about Papa and Grama their gift and card and phone call – oh, and the other day she got Noah’s card and she loves to read that. (She tells stories about the photo of Noah, Aaron and the other “Soshie” too.)
First gift- from Dom & Dom & family. A realistic baby doll, complete with a dummy, a potty, a nappy and a change of clothes. You can turn her on and she tells you what she needs. Sophie calls her Missy, and really loves to play with her!
Nana and Grandy arrived with many gifts – Here you can see Nana giving Sophie the bandaids featuring Pooh Bear and Barbie. One of those went on straightaway - suddenly she had an “owie” on her hand. (Play Spot-the-bandaids in upcoming photos.) This baking set got played with right away. The kids set to work using all the tools to make cookies and cakes out of play dough.
This kept them happy for ages: the highly-technical toddler art of breaking a piece of play-dough into several tiny pieces, throwing them onto a tray and calling them “cookies.”
Who will be...the next MasterChef Australia?!
Oskar
Sophia
Sebastian (Bo-Bo)
Zuzia and Olivia (Livi)
At the moment, Sophie calls her "Baby Lizzie." They adore each other! Sophie kisses her on the head, tells her stories and makes up songs about her. Livi gets so excited when she sees Sophie that sometimes she just screams and squeels at the top of her very strong lungs!
She also does an excellent serious face.
Brothers.
The gift from baby Livi and co. ABC puzzles (Or "ADC's" as Sophie calls them!) At this stage, they're great fun to empty out all over the floor, name the pictures like flash cards and put them back in the box. Good times!
Just a few of the birthday cards. She loves the princesses from Papa and Grandma! She likes to talk about all of the dresses and who likes which dress best! But the cards didn't actually last up there very long. As you can see, they are fascnating reading material! They then get marched around the hous and discarded somewhere on a floor :)
Gift from Great Nanna and Great Granddad ("Big Nanna and Big Grandy") - a gorgeous waterbabies doll. She calls her Gracie, and she loves to walk her around in her new doll stroller (from Nanna and Granddad), and feed the baby milk. She also loves to give directions, and at the party she happily insisted that Sebastian sit beside her on the couch while she opened a few gifts. "Bobo sit here!"
Bubbles! All together now...
Bec and Jeremy and Ryan are here! Let's open this box, since the present is trying to escape. We'll go over there and open it. Sophie takes charge - "Comeon Mama! This way!" This is one of her favourite phrases these days.
PUPPETS! These are awesome - a whole collection of hand and finger puppet animals - including a moose! I don’t know who enjoys them more – me, Dan, or Sophie.
All the kids had a play.
After playing outside, we went back in for food.
(Dan was an incredible help in the kitchen all this time!)
Ok, I got a bit silly and took some photos of the food. I just love Strawberries in the winter here! I had fun prepping the fruit before guests arrived and snapped these shots. I'm such a wannabe foodie!
The cake! Just a simple box mix – tasty, and none leftover. The best part for Sophie was the topper toys. She likes to name all the instruments and pretend to play them. Oh – did you notice the bandaids? Yeah, they were a big hit!
We didn’t get the actual blowing out of the candles on camera, she was too quick! But she did wait until we finished singing to her. She loved that! It’s one of her favourite parts that she likes to tell me about: “People sing happy day me!”
That’s pizza above her eyebrow. I think she was trying to talk with her hands while eating. Imagine that!
We ate on the floor - picnic style.
There was a
Artwork …a nice calming end to things.
A cheeky smile for the camera, from a sweet and happy two-year-old.
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