The Birthday Girl

Even though I have now had some time to get used to the idea I still find it hard to believe that my baby girl is now one.  I guess it makes me a little sad to think the year has gone so fast and that she isn't a 'baby' anymore, but it is also fantastic seeing her learn so much each day.  At this age they really are just wee sponges and with a big brother to teach her she seems to be learning new things daily.
So twelve months ago she looked like this:

And now we have this wee munchkin girl in the family:

Mind you maybe this should have given me a clue to that early on?

So here are a few pics of her enjoying her birthday and then her wee party.

What's in here?

Buzzzzz

Loving my new Wheely bug, and my new clothes from Granny and Papa.

Balloons are great.

Finishing the day with bubbles.

The cake.

My party.

Being patriotic with Daddy

Reading :-)

Starting daycare

Just before Miss M turned one I had to return to work.  I did actually have 13 months maternity leave but finished before my EDD and a certain someone decided to keep us waiting 11 days past that day as well.
My return to work meant my baby girl joined her big brother at daycare so here they are snapped as we were about to head out the door on that very first day.

Yes Miss M was ready and rearing to go and spend the day with her big brother.  And yes I do need to make the poor child a red hat so she doesn't have to clash so badly ;-)

Blogtober Fest

Well here I am.  I came in to update my blog and as usual got sidetracked reading other blog posts.  Among them I came across Blogtober Fest and since I have been failing miserably at keeping up to date I thought I might give this a go.  I can see it turning into an epic fail but if it means I post more often than once a week then I'm onto a winner :-)

So wish me luck and happy reading.  I may even celebrate later on in the month with another giveaway.

And The Winner Is.........

First of all thanks to everyone who popped by to enter into my giveaway over the last week.  I have loved reading all your comments about the joys of spring and the ideas of what you would make from the yarn.  In the interests of complete fairness I simply numbered all the comments in the order they appeared and then using random.org drew the lucky number................11!  Quite funny really since 11 has always been my lucky number.
Anywho this means the lucky winner is.....


drumroll please.......



EMMA!

Thanks Emma I will be in touch shortly, and again thanks to everyone else, I hope to see you all back here soon.

Also I have really enjoyed running this giveaway and I am thinking I may well do another one real soon so keep your eyes out.  Maybe a non-yarny one next time if I can think of something :-)

A Giveaway!

A lot has been happening here lately.  I have returned to work, which in turn means Miss M has become a big daycare girl, and she has just turned 1.  And of course not to forget it is SPRING!!!  I love spring, in fact it may well be my favorite season, so to celebrate I thought I would have a wee giveaway on my blog.  I have had a very good week for receiving yarn goodness in the mail and in amongst my packages was a scrum my skein of Vintage Purls Vintage Sock (this is not superwash) that just screams "Yay it's spring" to me.  It reminds me to daffodils and makes me feel happy just looking at it. This is a 100g skein of 4 ply merino/nylon.

So I thought it was time to spread the cheer :-)  Leave a message on here telling me what you love about spring and/or what you would make from this yarn and I will do a random draw at 8pm on Thursday 22nd September (and I am happy to post worldwide).
And if you don't knit enter anyway, this yarn is worth having around just to brighten up your day and maybe you can convince someone else to make you something scrummy from it :-)

P.S  Don't forget to leave contact details of some sort in your comment.

New milestones

The last month or so has seen everyone here achieving new milestones. DP is in the process of changing his job and doing a lot of training for that.  I have finally got around to passing my driver's license, woohoo, I never could have imagined how much difference that would make to life.  And as for the small people well....
Mr A is riding his bike with no trainer wheels :-)

And Miss M has started walking, or should that be running?  Take note of the 'hiya' at the end :-)

Cars and Trains

Anyone who knows Mr A at all with know that he is an absolute car nut.  It is hard to believe now that he never even owned any kind of car until he was given some on his first birthday, the house seems overrun by them now.  So I guess keeping that in mind it wasn't really surprising that Miss M has taken a liking to anything with wheels as well.  She loves to get in on a good game of 'cars' and is very proficient at making a convincing 'brmmming' noise as can be seen here.

As well as cars Mr A has always loved his train set.  Lately every opportunity he gets, which is generally when Miss M is sleeping since she is a bit of a destructive menace otherwise, he builds fantastic train tracks.  Here are a couple of his more recent creations, not too bad for 4y3m.

And then just because she is cute, here is Miss M dancing to "The Flumps"