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Happy 2nd birthday Ollie!

(Look how he has grown - a photo from each of the last 12 months)

Another 12 months have flown by and now our sweet little boy is a two year old. In keeping with last year's birthday post I thought I'd share a few of my favourite things about this gorgeous little petal:
- he calls out to me from his bed "I'm awake" each morning, usually way before the sun comes up
- he puts his toys in the naughty corner and imitates me saying "sit down, stand up, I love you"
- he loves to cuddle up and read "Where the wild things are" and say all of Max's lines
- he has big beautiful blue eyes just the same colour as mine
- his absolute favourite matchbox car is his hummer
- he still loves his toy panda as much as he did this time last year
- he gets a tuft of crazy professor hair that sticks up after every nap
- his favourite day of the week is Saturday even when it is Tuesday
- he puts his feet in the air when he rides his trike to get more distance
- when he dances he almost always ends up falling on his bum, deliberately!
- he loves to read books on his own in bed and when he is finished with each one he turfs them over the edge and starts the next one.
- he runs across the playground at daycare when I go to pick him up with his arms outstretched and the biggest smile on his face, calling "mummmmmeeeeeeeee"
- when I lay in bed with him in the middle of the night he puts his hands on each of my cheeks and gives me the softest sweetest little kisses on the lips.
- that I love him more today than I did yesterday and more tomorrow than I did today, even on the most trying of days.

I love you Ollie B, you give me such joy on a daily basis and I can't believe I am lucky enough to be the one you call mummy.

Now that the mush is over with, onto the party!!

The original plan was to have a small park party but given we seem to be in the middle of a monsoon it had to take place at our place. It was an intimate affair with some family and a few close friends who have little people. We were lucky enough to have a few members of the Cloncurry extended family join us as they had been in town for the wonderful wedding of Jen & Jeff on the Friday.

Ollie loves all things emergency services at the moment so I made him a fire engine cake. It was a sugary success and even bore some resemblance to a fire truck. Phew. Obear was most impressed and couldn't wait to dive in, sticking his pudgy little fingers in before being joined by an accomplice in Audrey.

Nick helped Ollie "blow" out the candle.


Miss Audrey and Ollie got such a kick out of wearing their party hats. These two had such a great time giggling and carrying on .

But I think the best part of the day was sharing his new toys with all of his friends. Ollie really loved playing with the three little boys as he is in such awe of them. It is good to see that they all got along with no squabbling, well except for one earlier stoush between Ollie and Audrey but as you can see from the pictures above they quickly patched up and issues.


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