Sarah and Becky’s Story!

Today we took Sarah to Wynnum to have fish and chips on the beach with Marnie, Mick, Melissa and Di. Tim was technically there too – out sailing on the bay somewhere. It was a really windy day, have a look at my hair! It’s like a really, really bad comb-over.

I haven’t been to Wynnum in quite a while, over a year at least as I was still pregnant with Sarah at the time. Since then they have put in the most awesome playground next to the wading pool. There are some huge, exciting things to climb and, my favourite, giant blue whales that randomly squirt water out of their blow holes!

She loved it! The whales are made out of shredded rubber so it’s a very child-friendly surface – soft and not hot or slippery. When she gets a bit older I dare say she’ll be up the rope climbing frame that you can see in the back of the first whale photo. All that excitment did get to her in the end and she crashed in the car on the way home.

Today Sarah ‘helped’ her Grandad connect up a pump to the water tank. She was really curious about the new bits of pipe and cool looking tools. Now we can fill up the watering can, buckets and, of course, Sarah’s pool in no time at all!

Well I guess it had to happen sometime. Sarah got into the kitchen and ate dog food today. Bleh. Talk about stinky breath! We’d been playing out in the yard, so I gave her her toothbrush with a little of her baby toothpaste on it to munch on instead while she was in the bath.

This week Sarah has half mastered the art of waving ‘bye bye’. I say half because at the moment she’s only waving with her right hand. Well, arm actually. While I’ll try and capture it with a photo later, it’s a cute wave where she holds out her arm, then waves first from her elbow and then follows through with her wrist :)

That’s right, Sarah graduated from her swimming class this morning, moving from the Squirts to the Splashers group. And she’s going to be in Jessica’s class now too! :)

Someone – *looks right at Auntie ‘Cole* – let Sarah loose outside on the driveway at Lowood, while someone else – *looks at Grandpa* – took photos. After getting handprints all over the door, Grandad and the bathroom, she had a nice warm, soapy, shower before Nanna would let her in the new car…

The photos from Party #3 are up! Credit for most of these lovely photos must go to my Dad, who wandered about the party with his camera to capture the special moments for me. And it means that I’m actually in a few of them too!

Wow! What a Weekend. Ever the little social butterfly, Sarah went to not one, not two, but three birthday parties this weekend – one of which was her Party #3! She also managed to fit in some swimming and a trip to the 2007 Paper Festival in town with Nic and Nic to pick up some scrapbooking supplies.

On Saturday afternoon we were guests at Sarah Kate’s 1st Birthday afternoon tea at a beautiful park at McDowall. There was a big playground to explore. Sarah Kate’s cake was also a big “1″ made by her Nanna. It was covered in tiny pink marshmellows and white marshmellow frosting. Very, very yummy indeed!

Next was Thomas’ birthday dinner at the Glen Hotel. Sarah sat up at the table and munched on garlic bread while charming the people sitting around us – one of them who turned out to be the friend of a friend, and the principal bassoonist of the Brisbane Philharmonic! Small world, huh? It was a lovely evening, but Sarah was really pooped by then and fell asleep on Jim’s shoulder, even amidst the noise and excitement of the party. For his birthday, Sarah gave Thomas a copy of her favourite book “Where’s the Green Sheep?”

This morning we went into the RNA showgrounds for the Paper Crafts Festival, along with Auntie Cole, Nic & Erin, and Erin’s Auntie Kirsty and cousin Aliesha. What a crowd! We all picked up some very pretty papers and nifty little bits and pieces.

And finally, today was Sarah’s Party #3! Number one was a celebration with her Vysma relatives at Nanna and Grandpa’s house. The second one was last weekend with the Gooch side of the family. Party #3 was with her little friends at Lollipops Playland at Springwood.

She was joined by Sheridan, Charlotte, Bailey, Emily, Tim, Sarah, Elizabeth, Erin, Sam, Ty, their respective Mummies and Daddies, Nanna, Grandpa and, of course, Auntie Cole who would never pass up the opportunity to go wild with Sarah in a playground! I’ve put up some of the photos here, and the rest will be up in a photo albumby thingy like the Melbourne Photos soon. Or at least that’s my plan!

Sarah decided to play furniture removalist while we were there. I think she likes the noise and the fact that she can move and affect and object that’s much bigger than she is! She was utterly zonked by the time the party was over and fell asleep in the car on the way home :)

It’s Sarah Kate’s birthday today!