Sunday 25 July 2010: 2nd birthday party

In our local park, with amazing bubblebee cake done by Baby, and so many presents we're having to ration them a bit. big present was play kitchen - so now mummy has a pretend kitchen to clean as well as a real one!! Birthday song now her favourite - see video.

July 2010: 250 words and counting

have compiled a list of all the word Celeste knows at 2 years - being added to each day at an amazing rate. apparently 5 times the average, pls excuse a proud mama x

June 2010: First Question???

first question was 'Where's Kate?.... very popular question which is applied to everyone all the time... 'at work' is the response to many of these and Celeste treid to figure out this 'at work' idea by applying it to everything... including herself and Teddy... e.g 'Teddy go to work?', also 'at school'... she tests that 'papa at school?' smart cookie

June 2010: Clarissa's Birthday Party

Celstes's first birthday party was Clarissa's at 'little dynamos' she gets her frist glimpse at the whole birthday party idea - she gets the song is linked to the ballons as well as the cake.... only concept she struggles with is the idea of giving the toy away!

(also pictured Taj)

May 2010: Toothpaste for dinner

Tonight is this all Celeste ate. Mealtime is most challenging part of day! Acceptable food includes: corn, corn, corn and corn at moment. Chips good. Sometime hummus ok :-)

May 2010: He's here to stay?

a more tranquil moment between brother and sister - although note the look of trempidation in teddy's eyes! CC's feeling towards Teddy had to decipher as her behaviour somewhat erratic! Over Easter we had kisses followed by furious face smacking, sometime it followed a routine where whe pointed out his eyes, nose and then head...'head' often accompanied by furious face smacking! poor teddy, we introduce the concept of the 'naughty stair' for the first time.

May 2010: Neighbourhood Friends

Delilah and Shania live on the corner of our street and just love Celeste. Playdough and park rides are their favourites pasttime togehter :-)

Easter 2010: Granny's last day of holidays

for monique's last day of holidays we decided on a trip to Vauclause House and a dip in the ocean after lunch - probably one of the last for the summer. Lunch @ Aqua Bar pictured.

Easter 2010: new friends in Newcastle

i'm not sure what non-verbal communication happened between Celeste and Alexandra - her three year old partner in crime... but after Alex followed CC up a down the stairs they began a cavort that took them into the restaurant, into the batherooms, in the pokie gambling den, into the kitchen and finally up the steps into a tower where Alx's mum and me stopped their toddler rampage. the funniest think to see was that they took turns leading each other, every change in direction accompanies with eye to key contact and giggles x

Easter 2010: First ice cream cone at Yamba

Cookie and Cream (mum's favourite x) was Celeste's first ice cream cone - at the Yamba RSL where we stopped for the night on the way back from Qld with Monique. Somewhat embarrassed that by the end of the trip Celeste had managed to form one of her first sentences... 'I want CHIPS!'

Easter 2010: Brisbane

A fantastic interactive art installation at the Brisbane Museum of Modern Art

Easter 2010: Buderim

Picasso at play x

June 2010: 'Not in a House, not with a Mouse...!!'

I whole new work of opinion opens up to CC this week with the introduction of two key phases 'I want.... this / that one' as well as 'I don't like...' 'I don't like...' popped up applied to many things the day after a long session with 'Green Eggs and Ham' :-)

May 2010: Dancing tastes

displaying an eclectic range of musical tastes, CC rocks out to the spice girls and pearl jam x

May 2010: Joining words together

One of Celeste's first phases has been 'don't cry Teddy', in the same sing song voice that the boys used to use with her. 'Teddy happy', 'door close', 'Mummy's bag' 'spider sleeping' 'teddy sleeping' have come rushing out since then.

Easter 2010: Buderim - Easter Sunday and chocolate

Celeste was pretty spoilt over Easter withGranny bringing over gifts from Paris inclduing this wonderful dress from Mamie. Her delight when we ripped over the presents to find the clothes makes you wonder about the female's inate joy of fashion...!

Easter 2010: Buderim - lots of new words

Easter saw a huge explosion of words... corn, ham, easter, book, egg, along with everyone's name - were a few. Very impressed with her perfect pronunction of most of them

Easter 2010: Buderim - doing things with Bardie

Celeste and Bardie became good friends over Easter :-)

15 February 2010: Welcome little brother!

Theodore Sonic Galtier arrives and Celeste shows some interest, but is reserving judgement!

The Boys: Feb 2010

A sign of things to come x Celeste just wants to do whatever the boys do :-)

Feb 2010: Blue Mountains

The last photo of Celeste and me while she was an only child! The three of us has a weekend escape to the Blue Mountians before the new arrival comes on the scene x

Jan 2010: Paris

This was taken at Chateau Breteuil outside Paris... take note of the dead expression in CC's eyes - this way whenever she was outside in her stroller - like she was conserving energy and warm to survive!

25 December 2009: Christmas in

The whole Epworth family had a week with the Crawshaws over Christmas. Christmas day was a glorious day where we had a beautiful walk between courses to renew our appetite!

December 2009: Baby on Train - en route from Gevena

Celeste's starting to notice othger kids a lot more now, and follows the 'baby bsby' around the train pulling out her dummy and replacing it... luckily the baby was quite placid and seemed pretty unconcerned :-)

19 December 2009: Geneva

a three day sejour with Joanne, Emmanuel and Rose in Geneva... went tobogganing on the 'hill' behind their house... CC took it all very seriously!

December 17 2009: Pierrefond, France

We arrived in Paris and had three great days with Mum and Dad... visiting the castle at Pierrefond, one hour north of Paris. Celeste was kitted out in cold weather gear by Florence - with Maxime's snow suit

14 Decembner 2009: Christmas Party at Vy's Family Dacycare

Photos of all the kids, from left to right: Zazuki, James, Clarissa, Celeste and Zara... Bee not in picture

December 2009: Father Christmas on a boat

Hung out with Renee / Tim and Jules /Ed to welcome Father Christmas to Elizabeth Bay park - by boat... CC's first encounter with the red suited fellow :-)

5 December 2009: Elise & Garry's Wedding, Wisemans Ferry

Celeste Thomas Vincent and I loved Elise and Garry's wedding with singing (mediatative chants to ancient Jewish songs to self composed love ballads), swimming in the dam and a pretty incredible tofu cheesecake as a wedding cake :-) the day drifted into evening with CC sleeping in Angela's new luxury tent nearby x

28-28 November 2009: The Galtiers first attempt at camping x