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Happy Birthday to Enrique!

With time literally flying by, it is hardly surprising to find us already celebrating little Enrique’s first birthday. Just a quick reminder of how the little man first appeared in the world...

Daniela and Jav put on a great day of delicious food and great kiddy fun including a piñata! I might be biased, but I have to say that Enrique is one of the most wonderful children you are likely to meet. He is the definition of happy-go-lucky, content to entertain himself, yet loves being around people – very much like his Mum I’d say.

He had such a big day and was the centre of attention the whole time, and not once did we hear him have a whinge, he didn’t slow down one bit.

Kaitlyn had herself a terrific time, playing with some of Enrique’s superb birthday gifts, having a hit at the piñata with Nan (then enjoying the spoils) and of course enjoying her first taste of birthday cake – hence the blue mouth (and yes, I had one too – just love that marzipan)!

Cuddles with the birthday boy’s Mum…

The happy family.

This week we also caught up with Margaret, Livinia and Elyssia – the family who inspired this blog. Now Margaret and I did have a little wager about who would blog first - and she only JUST won (if we didn't have to travel to Cronulla to watch the Eels today, I might have just made it).

Margaret is honest to goodness one of those Mums you see on tv who is practically perfect in every way. She thinks of the most creative things to do and see with her girls and still fits in time for her favourite past time, sewing up a storm.

Livinia and Elyssia are such gorgeous little girls, but let me tell you, they taught me a thing or two about toddlers – talk about energy! If the girls weren’t bouncing up and down the slippery dip, they were running off to explore the park, and at every moment, they had Kaitlyn enraptured.

The girls had a lovely gift for Kaitlyn as it was the first time the three of them had met – and the gift is one we will treasure, a homemade bumble bee (with matching carry bag) by Margaret – she is so talented, I wonder what I do with all my time!

And we enjoyed a sunny afternoon of giggles, sliding and banana muffins.

We were also back at gymbaroo this week, with Kaitlyn now head of the class – most of the new babies aren’t even mobile yet – ha ha!

And finally, in an attempt to make home play a little more interesting, I set Kaitlyn up with some flour in the kitchen to “experiment.” Yes there was a lot of mess, and yes I did freak out slightly, but she had a ball and I guess at the end of the day, that’s all that counts.

“Are you really ok with this Mum?”

“I’m coming to get you…”