Missing this girl xxx

Love you Lus. Miss you all. - xxx -

Happy 2nd Birthday Lani!

Yes, this is truly me... Lusi's post gave me a little 'boost' to try and keep up a little... I did say 'try' so we'll see how we go...

Yesterday our little princess turned 2. Can you believe it? 2 years ago, we were racing to the hospital in the car, me in full transition mode... and then giving birth - while still in the car!

She arrived into this world in a spectacular way, and lives pretty much that way too. She's a full-on little bundle of energy - inquisitive, cheeky, often defiant, very talkative, active, and very adventurous.

She's learning to go to the toilet, and to recognise her colours, and to count to 10.

She loves playing with her babies - rocking them, patting them to sleep, wrapping them in blankets and giving them a bath. She got some new dolls clothes for her b'day, so no doubt now we'll be dressing and undressing them a lot too.

She loves to play outside, and is usually happiest jumping up and down on the trampoline, swinging high on the swings, kicking or rolling balls, riding bikes and climbing ladders and play equipment at kindy.

She talks a lot and is very confident.

*sigh* She's not a baby anymore.

We celebrated her birthday with a low-key family BBQ at home. Greg's parents are visiting at the moment, so it was a great opportunity just for the families to get together.

Lani got spoilt with lots of lovely presents, cards and a little money to spend too. Some of these included a Tigger and Pooh flip-out sofa, trike with pedals, wooden dolls house, In The Night Garden (her favourite!) books, plastic food for the kids kitchen, hand-made (by Nan) dolls clothes, a Tinkerbell fairy dress, and some gorgeous clothes.

Lani's favourite character is Upsy Daisy from In The Night Garden - she now takes both her Pink bear and Upsy Daisy to bed with her. And so it seemed the logical choice (but scary one) to try and make Lani an Upsy Diasy cake. I had previously looked at a few on the net, but didn't see many I really liked (and they all used ready-made icing for the whole thing which I didn't want to do)... so I sat down with my cake tins, the Upsy Daisy dolls, baking paper and scissors and designed it myself. It used 3 cakes - one round, one square and one bar cake, all cut into different parts of her body, but in all I think she looked pretty perfect!!

Only took me 3 hours too!! (not including baking the cake the day before - thanks Nan!)

Lani loved it though! And I even made a special little gluten-free cupcake for my sister who is a coeliac (sp?) - also Upsy Daisy of course.

We had a lovely busy day celebrating our Princess's special day... love you darling!!

Hey everyone :)

It's Lusi here, one of Nat's bestie's :)

She has come interstate here to my house and I thought I would hijack her blog on her behalf (with her permission of course!) because I'm wondering if anyone else out there checks in here to see if she has updated it :)

I think Nat is awesome (she told me to write that) and she is teaching me tonight how to make a modern cloth nappy! She is also telling me to add that I think she is gorgeous (which i of course do) :)
Did you know that her beautiful daughter Lani is going to be 2 next week? And that since she last posted here Eli has turned 3 and Jai will be 9 in short months time? Wow time flies hey.
I'll leave you with a little ditti i made up for my special Natti :)

There once was a cutie named Nat
She did not own a cat
She visited me here
And we shed a tear
When she had to go back

ok so that last bit was a bit lame but still :)
I've just read it aloud to her and she said very sarcastically, 'yeah that was great. but what happened to (and this is her own song i might add)

Nat is awesome
Nat is great
She ate chicken schnitzel
Off my plate

Ahem.

Well with it being after 1am now, I will sign off and say this was the only way I could get this blog updated :) Sorry to bore you!

Love you Natti!
Lus x