This is why we haven't been blogging

"Happy to you, blow candle?"

I've been terrible, and don't i know it. But we have been busying ourselves with preparations for Saffron's birthday. With partyware airflown from London and grass skirts hand-carried from Hawaii, it promises to be the Party of the Year. That's if i ever get around to sending out the invitations.

Pictured here is Saffron with the first birthday present of the year, sent all the way from Switzerland, from Auntie Val and Uncle Tim. I wish we could say that we are looking forward to opening the beautiful package, but we're not. Because we already have. She is a toddler, after all. And she has a daddy who egged her on from the sidelines. So thank you Auntie Val and Uncle Tim for the lovely dolly - who though barely two days old in our household, has already had nappy rash cream lovingly applied by Saffron, and is missing her clothes and shoes.