So here we are, you have turned 2 my beautiful little Gruffalo loving girl. Your smile rarely leaves your face, how can you always be so happy!? I love picking you up early, so we can sit outside whilst you eat your dinner and shout at the cat, that’s what you do you see, you don’t speak to her, you just shout. It’s as if you believe shouting will get her to adhere to your instructions!

Your second year with us has been full of achievements and full of sass! You only refer to yourself as Bobbin these days, which of course we love. You’ve finally learnt to walk, we kept trying everything to encourage you to walk and didn’t get much back. Then literally suddenly you got up one day and off you were. You’ve been a dream really, we still have no stair gate, you still seem to listen to instructions quite well and will embrace and hug anyone that’s in need of a hug.

Your eyes have changed from blue to brown and I’ve given you an epic haircut this year… epicly bad!! I’ve tried to erase all photographic evidence but some lives on. I think it’s safe to say it’s a bowl cut, something that resembles dumb and dumber, look it up.

Baba Pink is your favourite doll and safe to say you’ve started to get Dada wrapped around your little finger. You’ve both discovered a love for water and on it goes, your WaterBabies classes with your Dada and a holiday to Florida cemented your love of swimming pools. And we had the best trip to DisneyWorld, you met Mickey, it was the sweetest thing for both of us, apparently I love Mickey as much as you do. It was unbearably hot at times but you didn’t winge or complain, in true Bobbin fashion you just got on with, albeit looking like a sweaty mess.

Christmas was a lot of fun, you were so pleased with your little play kitchen, Dada spent hours and hours the week before building it and making sure it was perfect. You dressed up as an elf and were truly adorable, the sweetest little girl. You did struggle to stay awake for the whole day and did sleep through most of it. We were still opening your presents weeks later!!

You also came across slides this year and boy do you like them, you’re a little thrill seeker, throwing yourself down any slide you encounter, whilst I stand back and watch through gritted teeth. The biggest discovery of the year was chocolate…. you cried for it, you performed for it, you’d literally do whatever it took for it. Long live chocolate.

There was a time during this year I thought I’d have to share my love with you and a sibling, it broke my heart to know I wouldn’t just be your mama. I wouldn’t be able to come running when you wanted me to, I wouldn’t be able to hold your hand when you needed me to. I wasn’t ready and I felt you weren’t either. I can look back now though and know I was wrong, you’re the kindest sweetest little girl. You’d embrace anyone who came into your life, you would share anything. My sweet little angel, who knows what you’ll grow up to be but right now we just want to keep you boxed up as you are.

Sentence of the year: “Dada gone werk”