Happy Birthday, Beautiful Girl!

Emma turned two today...She had a new party dress...

Last night, we had a small dinner party in honour of the birthday girl. L, N and J, you were missed! Emma was happy that there were party hats...

And the party blowers created great merriment...

It took her a few attempts to blow out her candle, but she did it eventually...

This morning, there were presents waiting for her at breakfast time...

She was just playing with one of her new toys (whizzing her toy cars round and round the spiral highway) when the doorbell rang...and a beautiful bouquet of balloons arrived from Granny Heath and Grandad....

And while Emma played with her cars and her new baby stroller, we had a party to prepare for...She had asked for a blue cake, so we made it into a fish covered with smarties...Luckily, Auntie Kim was on hand to help - it took all three of us to get everything ready...

Lots of Emma's friends were at the party to help her celebrate, and she got lots of thoughtful and beautiful presents (thanks everyone!)...

And cake...

And face painting (the face painting artist was Kim)

After the party, we sank onto the couch exhausted. Emma meanwhile, decided that she liked having her face painted - and that she could do it herself. (Her bath tonight was longer than usual as a result).

All in all, a wonderful birthday weekend for our big girl. Thank you to everyone who has sent her their good wishes - if we weren't limited to iniviting only those people who live in our approximate geographical vicinity, we would have needed a much bigger cake!