Monthly Archives: February 2015

Whilst Bea’s birthday isn’t until tomorrow we went for a slap up dinner at the local Smith &  Western restaurant.

We have of course been here many many times before,  but remembered that for Charlie’s 3rd birthday we also went to the Smith & Western to celebrate his birthday almost 12years ago!

Here are a couple of images of Charlie who was utterly overwhelmed by the “Belly Buster” dessert!

Moving forward more than a decade and we find a similarly sized little girl who is surrounded by her siblings and takes full confident advantage of her older brothers when faced with the same experience:

Such was her confidence she periodically took off her cowgirl hat for a yell of,  “yeee-haaa!!”:

Mummy even got stuck in and donned the cowgirl look for a few moments until Bea wanted her hat back:

All in all a cracking dinner out. We came home with the hat, some lollies and a couple of helium balloons all ready for tomorrow’s milestone.

Today was PARTY DAY!!! By request – Mummy hadn’t anticipated “putting on a Party” this year….but Bea said “I’d like a Party for my BIG girls Birthday with my friends!!”….so really, why not!? Lots of chats with Auntie Katie and planning….

So 3 years old, Bea the eldest by 4 months in a few cases so I didn’t want to get too carried away but we easily filled almost 4hrs with playing, eating, games and dancing!! When they’re dinky you tend to spend your days “luncheoning” at one another’s houses in the hope they might kip whilst you eat a meal chatting to your friends (about them) without them attached to your boob (feels like a distant memory!!) or pacing up and down a kitchen and rocking a restless babe! But as they get older it becomes more about the “activities” and of course children’s preferences differ and consequently “chatty Mummy days” become much less frequent. We do all tend to go to Music on a Friday which is lovely and today us Brooker gals got “our Party started” and Lora, Cindy, Anna, and Candice rocked up after Musical Friends. The children happily entertained themselves whilst we all had a cuppa and a novel catch up, then nosh filled a few hours – all Bea’s favourites….hot sausages, baked pots, ham and cheese squishy rolls, crisps, grapes, CHOCOLATE Birthday Cake with marshmallows, chocolate fingers, flapjacks and rocky road clusters 🙂

We went for pass-the-parcel and they were very good. I couldn’t remember how it actually worked so we did 2 rounds and they got a prize each time with POM-POMS for each of them at the end for a BOOGIE session courtesy of Ollie’s very carefully composed….. “Bea’s Party Play List”. Bea absolutely loved it and I loved watching them all celebrating her Birthday!!

Never easy to capture these things but a few pics from today….

Party favours…..Books and “love”ly chocolate…

Tomorrow is Smith & Weston family Birthday Dinner….

Apparently she needed her summer accessories as well as her winter ones whilst we stacked the logs this afternoon!?

The spots on day 5, after her shower tonight…..

the back….

….the front

….and the knicker-ping boogie!!

It’s been so long I will have to keep it brief…..purely because I have an appalling memory!!

Christmas was wonderful and New Year was a bit tarred for me! I got got by two viral thingamajigs so 2015 had rather a sluggish start BUT normality resumed and we’re one month down already!?!?

Bea’s been on very good form, extremely into arts & crafts, Music (we are as of January on the Frozen band wagon!!) and talking NON-stop!! Our weekly activities haven’t altered much but Bea now goes solo on a Wednesday for her “big girls swimming lesson” – a very proud (and naughty – pics not permitted!!) Mummy watching from the side 🙂

Bea is officially in Giraffes at Nursery and despite not always being uber up for it always has a brilliant time! As of the end of February she will be going two mornings a week….

We polished off Music a few Friday’s ago at Wagamamas EN-MASS….Bea’s suggestion! First time for the others but a huge hit!! Bea’s got rather proficient with the chop sticks!

Some silly snaps of some girlie days

We are currently suffering THE POX!! We are now day 5 and despite looking like she’s been got by a BB gun she’s doing very well. Lots on her tummy and back but only a few on her face. She was a bit uncomfortable overnight for the first few days but “my annoying cock-a-doodle-do spots” are going mostly unnoticed during the day. Daddy’s been suffering from a nasty cold so we gave him an hours peace yesterday and ventured off to the Village Park for some fresh air (not the hive of activity….especially in January)….the “poorly girl”

After her hours hooly she did sleep for over an hour!

In a few days Bea turns 3….yikes!! Hopefully we’ll be scabbed over by Friday for Party day, Smith & Weston Cowgirls dinner Saturday and THE BIG DAY Sunday…..mostly filled with presents and cake!!!! She can’t WAIT!!