Party on, dudes!
August 18th, 2008
This time last year my friends’ son Alexander turned one year old, and we went to his party. It was the first time we had taken Talia anywhere further than a few blocks from our house since she came home from hospital six weeks earlier. It was a big event for us emotionally as new parents of a prem, as we were still very concerned about her contracting even a cold after she was diagnosed with chronic lung disease as a result of spending 11 weeks on CPAP, and we were not sure how we would cope with seeing lots of big babies.
In the end it was fine, Talia was thrilled to make her first acquaintance with balloons (which she has loved to bits ever since) and I ate the contents of her lolly bag (tut tut mummy!)
Fast forward 12 months to today and we were back at Alexander’s house for his second birthday. The little kids from last year were positively enormous this year, but Talia has grown quite a lot too. She scoffed three pieces of fairy bread, two pieces of sushi and a range of other food, crawled around the place, popped a couple of balloons and greatly enjoyed trying out some of Alexander’s many toys.
Then after a power nap in the car on the way home, she spent part of the afternoon rearranging the sandpit.
Life is good.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Kathryn, I always enjoy reading Talia’s blog, I love the photo of her throwing the sand! That is great!