Painting Isabella's thank you cards! She loved doing this and the paint didn't travel as far as I thought it would have done - she is one tidy little painter.....not like me!!!!

The finished penguins. She was more than happy having her feet painted, but did not really enjoy the finger print snowflakes - weird!!!

Isabella had a great birthday yesterday, I honestly think the best bit for her was returning to the childminders after 2 weeks away from there and seeing all her friends again!!! Excitement overdrive combined with a sugar high had her all set!!!

Her farm cake, a very dodgy looking barn with some chickens,

 cows, sheep and

pigs surrounding it.

Then we opened presents! As you can see huge amounts of concentration to unwrap everything and then great excitement and shouts of "ooooh, yay" at every one!!!!

Loving that her picture is in the book!!!

And then having a play with them all!

All in all a great day!!!

Somebody took the weather forecast a little too literally I think!!! We were predicted very cold weather with extreme winds and potential flooding in other parts of the country.....so Isabella donned a woolly hat and her armbands - you can never be too prepared!!!

Happy New Year everyone, hope you all had an amazing night, a great 2013 and an even better 2014!!! Here's how Isabella and I spent the turning of the year....fast asleep!!!!

Isabella testing out her new scooter on the bumpy path outside....only a slight mishap at the end, but she loves it and is on it virtually all the time without any accidents!!!!

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you had a lovely day....we certainly did! Isabella fully understood what to do with a wrapped present by the end of it, it took a very long time to open everything as she had to stop and play with everything before considering moving on to the next present.

Santa brought her a stocking and she used most presents as a phone.....

Putting on her new headband and then wanting them all on!

It's like magic! You draw, push the button and it disappears so you can do it again!!!!

She was fascinated by her dog torch, his mouth opens for the light and he barks as well!!! Hours of fun!

 Insisting we put in every hairclip that she got!

Choosing which toy to open next, and then playing with it before moving on!

Putting on her jewels, briefly, before becoming mesmerised by the ballerina in the jewellery box!!

The biggest and heaviest present!

 And it was a scooter - caused a 20 minute delay in opening anything else and she's barely been off it since!

Her dressing up clown's 'hat'!!

And we're off!