Where did that year go??

When I think back to a just over a year ago, I had just given birth to a tiny little girl, my last ever baby.

Fast forward a whole year!!! And we have just celebrated little miss Layla's first ever birthday and boy was I emotional. That tiny little bundle of joy who entered the world has turned into a cheeky little monkey who makes me smile and laugh every day.

Her sister's were keen to get involved in making her first birthday special. We were lucky enough to be sent a card from InnaBox for the girls to write. The lovely card was just the right size for little hands and came complete with a set of stickers which allowed the girls to personalise it, keeping it unique for Layla, there was a good range of cards to choose from but Freya and Elise decided on a card that had a monkey on the front, very fitting in my opinion. The pictures below show the card and what they did with it, I loved that they even managed to decorate the envelope!!

Preparations continued with wrapping up presents and blowing up balloons, bit of team work between Daddy Hazelden and I, I blew up the balloons and he tied them, high five!! And I enlisted the help of my lovely Nannie to make Layla's cakes, although I did buy the cake toppers off Ebay.

Bless Layla, it was like any other day to her, she really didn't understand what was going on, if anything she found it a bit overwhwelming with all the visitors that were arriving but we kept it traditional.

Present opening.

Card reading (ripping).

And of course the eating of the birthday cake nom nom nom

If Layla could talk I'm sure she would say that she had a wonderful birthday and was spoilt like she should be. As much as I am sad to see my baby growing up, I am also excited to see the kind of child that she grows into.

Here's to the terrible twos :)

xxxx