Tuesday was a very busy day, I barely had any time to
myself. I am aware of this day late post but it covers the 5th and
obviously later I’ll be posting 6th Blog post.
So the 5th of January is in fact my lovely nieces
birthday, the small bundle of joy turned two. I cannot believe it at all, she
has literally grown up right before my eyes. Two years it really isn’t a very
long time even though sometimes it kind of feels like it is. I stayed the night
before so I could help prepare for the day, by prepare I mean practically
losing my breath and capturing my laughter inside of balloons. We put banners
up and brought all her birthday presents through.
So yesterday morning, I heard them awaken so I opened the
curtains to allow the banners to show, we all also slept in until nine (bonus)
and as expected she wasn’t really interested in the huge presents (which all
had matching Minnie mouse wrapping paper, yeah my sister is one of those people)
but instead she played for a good twenty minutes or so with the balloons, which
were blown up quite big if I do say so myself.
She was lovely opening everything, we had breakfast cereal
rice crispies (her favourite) and we chilled as she played with some of her
toys. Her big present got delivered, which she adores. A child size car, it’s a
masa roti it obviously has parental control. She has been playing with it nonstop,
it took a while to put together and charged but still it was worth it. We
prepared food and family came over and together we all had a blast, we
basically had a family sized game of don’t-let-the-balloon-touch-the-floor
which is always exciting.
She adored her Pepper Pig Birthday cake (she picked it
herself) and it was such a lovely day. As the hours unfolded and the later it
got, she didn’t really settle for bed so instead we cuddled on the sofa
watching Tangled (which will be mentioned either in the next post or a later
one).
I cannot believe she is two though, I remember when I first
met her. I was super nervous and afraid to pick her up, and now well she jumps
and climbs all over me, I pick her up and swoop her into the air and we crawl
around and I toss her on the bed (safely obviously) and well I have come to the
conclusion that she is my little best
friend. We adore each other, we make each other laugh, she is sarcastic and she
isn’t two faced. I mean for a two year old she can be a little harsh. I love
being an auntie I mean I have taught her some pretty useless things, for example;
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My mother brought her a knitted clown the other
week, and well I’ve taught my niece to honk its nose (with the sound also honk honk) every time she sees it.
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In the
early days I taught her to say potato
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Another sound I’ve taught her ‘dun dun dun’
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The popular Charlie Sheen phrase ‘Winning’
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I accidently taught her a swear word ‘Oh shit’
yeah I got in trouble for that one, word of warning toddlers pick up on
everything!
There are more but those pretty much the
post pointless maybe, because I mean a two year old really needs to know that?
NO of course not but hey at least she’s learning.
Yeah so that’s how my 5th January
went, it was wonderful!
