My baby girl is growing up...she is 1 today!

Dear Rosie,

Wow, I cannot believe it but you are one today already.  The time has flown by. Its amazing how much you have changed, from this:

1 week old

To this:

1 year old

You have been been a fantastic baby only crying when hungry, dirty or in pain because of your teeth. You have been no trouble at all, a happy, content little girl who giggles and smiles away most of the time.  You are a little shy with strangers at first but this soon passes and you are a bit of a Mummy's girl too.

At the moment you are busy pulling yourself up on everything and walking around the furniture.  You also have several of those push along first walking toys and love them.

Today we went to the Zoo.  You had great fun and because it was a lovely sunny day all the animals were out.  You were pointing your little chubby finger at everything and shouting to your sister to look too.

Look at the ape in the background

This afternoon Daddy finished work early and we had a picnic tea with birthday cake.  Poppy had picked a chocolate Caterpillar cake for you..I thought you wouldn't like it because you have not had anything like that before but you loved it and wolfed it down looking for more!  I should have know really because you love your food.  There isn't anything you don't like...Daddy says if I gave you marbles you would eat them and say "yummy, thanks Mummy" (if you could talk of course).

This was your second taste of Birthday cake, your first was on Sunday.  We saw Nanny, Gramps, Aunty D, Uncle Jim & William at the weekend and had a little celebration lunch together before heading home.  It was lovely and you had great fun!

Party at Aunty D's

Here are a few more pictures of you today.

Opening your Birthday dress

The ball pit

Your 1st ice cream (usually you get an empty cornet)!

The greedy goat
 (It managed to open my bag & find Marmite rice cakes)

Lots of pressies

Sharing your new toys with your Sister 

Looking forward to watching you grow up but missing the baby you were already.

Love you sweetheart

Mummy xxx

Were going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo...you can come too!

Today we went to the Zoo.  It was such a lovely family day out and we took some lovely photos that I decided to share them with youl. I was going to wait until tomorrow and just leave the one up for Silent Sunday but me being me, I'm not very good at being silent so here I am tonight.

We are Zoo members, something I would definitely recommend to other families.  You join one but get to use most of them around the Country.  We live pretty close to one, so go all the time, even in the Winter. There are things to do for the whole family: look at the animals, play in the soft play area or various play parks, enjoy a meal in the restaurant or a picnic in the grounds, take a train ride (we haven't yet) and generally just enjoy the walk around the beautiful grounds and a family day out!  Our tickets have been used so often we have definitely got our moneys worth and we don't feel like we have to spend the whole day there either as we go so frequently.  Often we just go for a few hours at a time.

Anyway, pictures...here is one I took.  It was a close call between this one and the one I used for My Silent Sunday picture.  I think he looks very old:

 

This is one of Poppy and Daddy in the Elephant house.

Now Poppy loves going to the Zoo and asks to go every weekend, however, she likes to rush around the animals really quickly and instead is happy to just run along the paths and pick up sticks.  Typical two year old:

Today there were lots of peacocks out and both girls were fascinated by them.  The male ones looked very important strolling around the grounds.  I loved the one I used as my Silent Sunday post which was a close up but think this one is lovely too:

As I mentioned before, we go pretty regularly but today we discovered an area we have not been to before.  The crocodile swamp.  Daddy was very excited about this and I must admit there was a very pretty walk before it too.  This photo makes me smile:

Next we saw some goats.  I think they might have been a bit hungry as they kept trying to eat the buggy board and my Mummy bag:

Before we went home, we promised Poppy she could play in the park.  She wanted to go on this slide but couldn't get up by herself as it was for older children.  Anyway Daddy went with her and they did it a few time.  She was ecstatic:

Oh hang on, nearly forgot to put some of me on here.  Here is me with the girls and the giraffes.  I love seeing the giraffes and the orangutans best:

Here is one of me with Rosie.  However, she is too busy looking at her Sister in the background.  She was climbing sandbanks:

 

So all in all a lovely sunny day, enjoyed by the whole family. I love days like this. Zoo passes definitely recommended!

Karen x