A New Bedroom For A Princess

Natalia's big birthday present finally arrived today. We wanted to make her new bedroom special for her for her birthday. Since we moved here from South Africa she no longer sleeps in her cot. She got used to sleeping with mommy and then later on with mommy and daddy, so going back into her cot was not an option. So we decided it would be a good idea to buy her her very own double bed and to get her 2 cute duvet cover sets to match her new fairy princess theme. The duvet sets finally arrived in the post today so I got to make up her bed nicely. When princess Talia got home I took her upstairs to her bedroom for a nice surprise which she just loved loved loved and she kept on saying 'new bed' over and over. Thank you also to Granny for buying the first fairy duvet set and her new heart pillow. Now Natalia loves her bed and she looks forward to going to bed every night and sleeps like a dream.......

The duvet set and pillow from Granny

Fairy wall art

My old cot converted into a chair with my growing pillow collection

My big ole teddy bear

Home from school and checking out my new bed

Sitting with my bear that daddy bought me before I was born

My second duvet set from mommy and daddy

Eating

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get Natalia to eat healthily. If its bread, chips, sausage, chicken, tomato sauce, egg, cookies, biscuits and chocolate then she'll gladly eat it. Fruit, veg, rice, pasta and anything remotely healthy will not pass her lips, not one bit. I wonder to myself if I am the only parent that has a problem with a toddler that refuses to eat good food; all the kiddies I know are the opposite of Natalia and love fruit for example....... Last night I had to resort to blackmail. I made a savoury mince with celery, brinjal, carrot and courgette in it. Kim and I ate it will pasta, Natalia of course doesn't eat any form of pasta or noodles so I just gave her the mince. I told her if she ate all her mince she could get a chocolate biscuit afterwards. She proceeded to gobble the mince up and fed herself by hand; what a mess, but mission accomplished.


So now I have started my mission to get her to eat better and healthier and the only way I can do it is to deceive her!!! Yes, I was lucky to receive a recipe book for my birthday called Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld (Jerry's wife) from Jaycee and Wayne. I have only now been able to get cracking on making the recipes as we have been waiting for all out stuff to arrive and then I had to find all my baking and cooking stuff.


As I cook the recipes successfully, which are primarily to deceive princess Talia, I will be posting them here to share with all of you. So look out for these fantastic recipes!

Out And About With Our Birthday Girl

We planned to go out to the Adelaide Zoo for the day. Natalia just loves animals and can name a lot so we knew she'd love it. We woke up to very cold overcast weather, not unusual for this time of the year. July sees the highest rainfall for Adelaide. We arrived at the zoo at 9.30am wanting to spend as much time there as possible. It seemed to get colder and colder throughout the morning and became unbearably chilly at midday so we decided to leave....
After Natalia's midday nap we went to an indoor playarea called Wacky Warehouse but it was full so we found a nice cafe and ordered Natalia a muffin - she'd been asking for cake all day - and thsi was the closest thing to a cupcake that they had. They we nice to put a candle in and sing Happy Birthday to her and she just loved the attention. On our way home we went past Wacky Warehouse again and this time there was space. Kim and Natalia had a ball. The pics below tell all.......
All in all we had a fab day even though the weather was miserable.

Okay people, I'm ready to go out

This is Wang Wang eating his carrot



Pandas are on the endangered species list





This is Funi eating her tree

Our mode of transport

Poor old lion

Lemur - Julian from Madagascar

Cute little fella, mister meerkat

Naughty laugh

Fly fly fly

Model pose

Funny looking creature. Tapir also on the endangered species list

Big fella

Singing Happy Birthday again

Wacky Warehouse ballpit

Look whose winning

Help, the balls are eating me !

Happy Birthday Sweet Natalia - You Are 2 today !!!

The much anticipated day has finally arrived; our baby has turned 2. We slept in a little this morning and woke up at 7.45am. I brought Natalia to our bedroom where she opened up her 2 pressies. But this is not the only birthday presents. We have also bought her her very own double bed which should be delivered the end of next week and bedding to go with it. So once it arrives and her bedroom is all done up I'll be sure to post some pics.

Tearing the paper oh so carefully

Very worried that she's 'breaking' the paper

It's a book

Now onto the big one

All excited

Its 'bathing baby'

Some shampoo

Care for a hair wash baby ?

Happy girl

Birthday Cakes from WiddlyTinks.com