The wee girl turned one on Saturday! I can’t believe that she is one already. It seems like no time at all since she was a tiny baby, and now she is a beautiful, lively, determined (almost) toddler.
We started the celebrations on Friday with a party thrown by a lady that we met at the hotel we stayed in when we first moved over here. Mary deserves a post all to herself, another day, suffice to say that she is a long term resident in the hotel who has a adopted several families who have stayed there at the start of a ‘relocation’. This party was in fact for the wee girl, the 3yo (who turns four in two weeks) and another little girl. There was plenty of cake and the wee girl enjoyed her first taste of ice-cream cake. The rest of us were amused by the deliberate mistake in the party banner…
In my usual organised fashion (?!) I baked the wee girls cake on Saturday morning. Not being the most experienced of cake decorators, I had a variety of ‘frostings’ and sprinkles to hand…
We then went out for a lovely lunch before coming home to unwrap presents.
Then, after a well deserved nap (sadly not for me!), it was time for cake! Inspired by the lovely Susanne at ghostwritermummy I had decided to try a ‘cake smash’…
The wee girl wasn’t really sure what to make of this, and after trying to hand her the whole cake, pieces of the cake and just leaving her to it, she was still largely unimpressed with the idea! Turns out all we needed to do was hand her a fork!
So, happy birthday to my beautiful girl. With your easy smile, infectious giggle, diva tantrums, cute bum shuffle, disco moves, determined nature and love of ‘i’ devices – I am so very proud to be your mummy. Love you thiiiiiis much xxx
Why not hop on over to The Oliver’s Madhouse and take a look at some other magical moments!
I’ve linked this post up to #PoCoLo at Verily, Victoria Vocalises
There there is a magic moment indeed. A very happy birthday to your special little girl.
Thank you :)
Fantastic! I cant believe that time is going so fast! joshua is 2 in a few weeks and i dont know where its gone! lol thanks for linking up with #magicmoments xx
I know, you just want to press pause sometimes don’t you?
First birthdays are the best! x
Aren’t they? We had a lot of fun :) Thanks for commenting xx
A superb birthday.
You’ve given me ideas for my Gem’s 1st in July.
It was really good fun! Glad it’s given you some ideas – you should check out ghostwritermummy for the cake smash idea :) thanks for reading and commenting xx
Ahh she is adorable! And a cake smash? That must be an american ideas, yes?! Such fun!
Thanks! I actually came across the idea on ghostwritermummy’s blog and thought it looked like fun :) It was! If you’re on Pinterest there are lots of ideas for it there too xx
What a gorgeous little girl. My little girl is just turning five and I feel like it was only yesterday she was a tiny baby too…I wonder if we’ll feel the same when they are 18! #PoCoLo
If she’s anything like I was as a teenager… Perhaps not! Thanks for commenting :)
Oh I just LOVE those pictures – it really is the very best way to eat cake :))
Such a huge milestone a first birthday – one for mummy too. Great post xx
Thank you – it was good fun, especially once we gave her the fork :) it was a lovely day. Thanks for commenting xx
How beautiful is she?!! She’s gorgeous and what a lovely thing the lady at the hotel did. I love that it was ‘Brithday’! Thank you so much for linking up to PoCoLo and for your support xx
How beautiful is she?!! She’s gorgeous :). It looks like you had a wonderful time and how lovely of that lady in the hotel. I love that it said Brithday! Thank you so much for linking to PoCoLo and for all your support xx
Thank you :) It’s lovely how Mary has taken several families under her wing – it’s very kind of her – and the kids love going back to the hotel! Thank you for hosting such a great linky :)
Oh she is gorgeous! Happy birthday little one. Looks like she had a fantastic day! =)
Thank you! We all had a lovely day :) Thanks for commenting xx
The cake looks lovely. Well done.
Looks like she had a great first birthday.
Beautiful post x
Thank you, we had a lovely day :)