Josh turns 1!

On the day of Josh's actual birthday we (Monique & Isaac, Laura & Reese, Julia, Keelia & Nathan) took him to Butterfly Creek where he went on the train (not for the first time) and for the first time ever (much to Julia's disbelief and disgust at the cotton wool parenting she reckons this shows....) had his first go on a slide! He loved it as you can see.

Of course I was a little sad as well as excited for Josh to be having his birthday. The whole year has gone incredibly fast! Sometimes I look at him and just wonder where my wee little baby has gone!

We also had a family afternoon tea party for Josh at Grandma & Grandad Pointon's where pretty much all the Pointon side of the family came as well as Granma & Granpa Carr. Grandma Wendy had organised him a train cake which was so cool and Josh is right into trains and trucks and cars so it was a hit with him. He says "Draaaaiin.." for Train. He got a wooden train from Granma and Granpa Carr that he can now run around behind the front engine pushing it along. He's gotten really good and can steer it while pushing it too.

Then it was the official Teddy Bears Picnic birthday party that he and his "twin" Abbey shared. They are so cute dressed in their little bear outfits that Jana got sent over for them from the states. Two peas in a pod!

Their party was really fun and it was so cool having our twins share the special occasion together and I really loved sharing/halving the organising with Jana too, who was amazing considering she was also dealing with going in and out of hospital for treatment for a really bad eye infection at the same time. Big thank you to Sam Kilpatrick for taking charge of doing all of the coffees and to Julia for being an awesome waitress and helping me with the baking and decorating the night before! And thank you to everybody else who helped on the day with setting up and cleaning up. Emma Diack decorated their cake for them - well done Emma, you did such an awesome job! Thank you again!