toddler life – Sunny Side Up

A bunch of questions to remember and look back on how Summer’s personality was when she turned 2. She’s a crazy, smart, sweetheart with a loveable sense of humour and puts a smile on our faces everyday.

Can you say your name?: yes, Summer. Everything is said in third person.

Nicknames: Bubba, Sumi, Sum Sum, Monkey, Summersauras, Summertoa, Baby

How old are you?: two and one week – tries to do the fingers, but shows me three and half fingers up

Favourite food right now: ICE CREAM, cheese, yoghurt, strawberries, eats a banana every day. Also can eat about 10 oranges in a row if I let her. Hard to get her to eat meat (blaming it on the texture)

Favourite songs right now to sing: Happy Birthday (to Summer) , Baa Baa Black Sheep, Let it Go (nearly all the words, nearly in tune) Ice cream song, and around and around is the name of the game. I See the Light from Tangled, also, Tap your sticks song.

Recent obsessions: Sticks, picks any up she can find and collects them too (hope this isn’t the beginnings of a hoarder) Sleeps with Momo (Moana) and Baby and a bottle of water in the bed every night. likes wand shape things, always wants to hold something or take a toy with us when we are out. Loves Peppa Pig and Dinosaurs too. Also have to read 3 books a night before bed.

Special words: Gaga – water
Meemeeyaaaa – sleep
havagoodayyy – have a good day
I mama, I dada, I Summer – I love mama etc
Hi Boy
Wooahw (like Joey)

Favourite toys/things to play with, tea sets (she has 3) play dough, drum sticks. loves anything with colouring and painting. Stickers.

How far can you count: one to ten, sometimes misses out one and nine. knows all the colours.

favourite places to go: the beach, Woodbine park, at home playing with the toys, swimming with daddy, Yuna’s house. Disneyland.

Best friends: Yuna, Joaquin, Tita Alee and Cheechee (Audrey). Once had weird obsession over Gymboree teacher Sam. (kept following her around and only wanted to play with her)

Memorable moments of being 1: Moving to Los Angeles, Meeting Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. Popping your elbow socket out. learning to walk/run/jump.

Most likely to be when you’re older: some kind of artist, loves drawing and singing and playing drums.

We love watching you grow and seeing you light up when we play with you and interact with others. Keep shining, we love you very much, our Summer Grace x

Just over two weeks into 2018. I might have got that “New Year/New Beginnings” mentality (oh hey, sparkling new gym membership card) but if it means it’s an excuse to have a fresh start and the drive and motivation to try new stuff then I’m all up for it.

I can’t say it’s been the easiest of days at the moment. I have a lot of friends going through some pretty tough times right now, many unexpected life events and some even devestating, makes me realise once again that i’m so far away from loved ones. This also means I value more of what I have to live for and enjoy each moment as it happens.

On a happier note I know two babies already born this year! Both girls and both adorable and gonna rock the year of the dog.

Some of the things we have been up to:

We found a good Dim Sum place! it’s in San Gabriel called Elite and not all fancy. Just good old fashion tasty food. There’s a bit of a wait but its ok it was worth it. Pretty good way to spend the 1st day of a new year.

A drawing of our food – with added faces 🙂

Everyone is sick, literally every family I know in LA has caught some kind of lurgy. There’s a crazy stomach bug going on and also the common cold just seem to linger around. Mark and Summer just seem to keep passing it to each other so it just circulates in our home, but touch wood I have been a strong mama and managed to avoid it!
The other day Mark came home feeling pretty rough and Summer laid herself on the floor next to him complete with her blanket and just stayed next to her daddy. It was the cutest.

Along with that there’s actually been a few days of rain so Summer and me have spent a LOT of time just being at home. It’s okay though – we got out the play dough cake maker machine and have done a lot of dressing up, my love of hats seemed to have been passed down to this little one.

And then the sun came back and we took a nice wonder around Century City Mall and I got my camera out. This place is seriously built to be Instagrammed!