TWO

That’s right: my baby is all growned up and will soon have to find gainful employment. I know this coverage is delayed – the actual birthday was a little hectic.

As with last year, she managed to get ill just before her birthday, but this time with some stomach thing instead of a cold. That’s fine though; if she only ever gets sick once a year I probably can’t complain about the timing.

I completely forgot to measure her height last weekend and she’s in bed yelling WHEEEE currently so it’ll have to wait. I did a couple of weeks back though and I think it worked out she’d be 2cm taller than me when she’s done growing. Which I suppose is OK – I should still be able to borrow her clothes but my stuff will be slightly too short on her. AHAHA. Her weight’s around 11-12kg, which is bang in the middle of the chart. I choose not to listen to any of Dad’s comments about the size of her head.

Vocab (It’s a little on the limited side for her age, but I’ll still probably miss some…)

Mama (YAY!)
Dadda
Nana
Bubby
Maow (cat)
Bun (rabbit)
Puppy
Butterfly
Flower
Dolly
Teddy
Pooh
Elmo (also means “I want to draw stuff”)
Balloon
Book (Pupo = Peepo and Maow = Slinky Malinki)
Bottle (also means milk)
Bun (bread)
Cheese
Egg
Beans
Nummy (“I’m hungry”, “that looks good”, “that was good”, “give me more”… No nummy = yuck or “I’m full”.)
Wawa (water / wash)
What’s that
What’s this
Who’s that
Where are you
Want
Don’t want
Undo
Nee (toothbrush – who knows)
Clean
Yellow
No
OK
Ew
Ta
Please
More
Car
Keys
Zip
Eyes
Nose
Mouth
Bum
One two (she’s counted to three before but she REFUSES to go past 2 now. Binary baby)
And of course kakuwee = star. It’s her version of ‘twinkle’. ;)

OK. On with the pictures. There were just a few celebrations…

Part One: The OhBaby! babies.

The week before her birthday we met up with the same group of babies we see on occasion and partied with last year. My how they’ve grown!

Part Two: the family lunch

Because it’s what we do… and yes, she was spoiled rotten.

Part Three: The Birthday

On her actual birthday we headed out to Butterfly Creek. The original plan was the Zoo, but of course she is a winter baby, born in storm season, and Auckland weather is retarded. As it turns out the forecast heavy heavy rain held off, but it was still cold and windy so we were thankful for inside options. Plus there were more opportunities for getting hands-on with the extremely patient animals!

Then pizza and jelly ‘n icecream for dinner. Nom nom nom…