Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dead Easy Lemon Cake

I highly recommend you whip one of these up for after school on a cold and wintery Melbourne day.

I've been meaning to post the link to the recipe for ages and am not quite sure why today was the day when the house is falling down around me and my yukky cold.

Hope you enjoy it and at the risk of being a complete blog bore, here's the original photo to the cake.



Now I'd better get my bottom into gear and clean the house, do the laundry, put the baby to bed, prepare lunch for my mummy and, oh, yes, bake a cake.

E x

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

yellow




nudey lilly pilly's on the way to school.
i love their cheery yellow berries against the sombre winter sky.
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Monday, August 16, 2010

wrap rap




what's the best part about presents? the wrapping!
she stamped and jumped and hopped and popped, until it popped no more.
what fun!

Friday, August 13, 2010

wootwo


  


yahoo, woo's two!

unfortunately she was so unwell and the entire day/evening turned into a non-event. poor baby,
we love you woosie, although, on a daily basis you drive me mad, around the bend, up the wall, into a nut house.  and then you say or do something deliciously you and i forgive you the makeup all over the chair (and you), the ongoing fascination with all things toilet related, the sneaky chocolate spread on tiggy's bed, the gouging of his arms and face, the foot stamping tantrums.

you had "pecil" on your "mingers" the other day (you know, on the ends of your hands). you love "shiclate" (not on tiggy's bed though). you have the most extraordinary vocabulary and are able to speak in full sentences.  you love to sing and dance - yesterday you danced as you painted.  you care for your dollies like they are living, breathing babies. you love tigs even if he's being yuk to you. you are persistent and persuasive. you are the most flexible child i've ever met and can do the splits in any direction, a back bend and you love to be swung through the air upside down. you have a perfect pencil grasp, albeit as you're drawing on yourself, the walls and the furniture.  when you wake you're always happy.  daddy says you smell like heaven when he cuddles you and snuggles his nose in behind your ears, after you've been sleeping. 

you are all this and so much more.  more than we ever dared to dream about.

we love you little girl and are so happy that you are ours, and we are yours.

happy birthday darling, here's to turning three!

camelia + cupcakes


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Monday, August 9, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010