A Matter of Choice

Reading the letters on his banner! It was Leo's 2nd Birthday this weekend and we had a great couple of days... Saturday afternoon saw 7 of his friends (plus parents) arriving for a 'Mickey Mouse' themed party, Greeting on our front door for the party! I LOVE parties, both organising and having them. In the run up to the party I made special birthday cookies  and had great fun preparing all the food. I had brought a 'toodles' shape cutter and made cheese and marmite bites with them, as well as cutting ham into Toodles shapes as well. Along with plenty of other goodies and a brilliant cake decorated by Aaron we were all set. I loved the fact he knew what was happening this year, last week we went to a friends party and he had talked about it every single day since. I was being greeted each morning with the question "Jack's party again?' so we kept saying "No, Jack's party's all gone, it's Leo's party next'  He sp...

Dear Leonidas, Happy birthday little man, you are two years old today! Time seems to have flown by since I wrote to you on your first birthday , You have changed so much in the last year I'm starting to have trouble keeping up! Who'd have thought it possible that you are now more cute than ever, and very clever with it.  You now repeat everything we say, which is brilliant but not always a good thing, as sometimes we have to speak in code to talk about what we are doing later so you don't insist on it immediately. Daddy and I are very proud and amazed at how well you know your colours, numbers and alphabet, and now you even know your numbers in Greek.  It's great to hear you read out every letter and number you see as we go about our day.  Your favourite toys at the moment are your ride on turtle which you 'high five' and kiss goodnight. You love cars and spend ages 'driving' them up and down anything you can find. Like your Mum and Dad you also lo...