Day 283 to 289 of Project 366 - Yet another Birthday!

So last week, on Saturday, it was Little Miss G's big 2nd birthday that started with a party on Friday afternoon and is pretty much still going seeing that she has been getting a present pretty much every day from friends whom we did not see last week. 

Mr H decided to take a couple of days off work to recover from G's birthday madness as yours truly was celebrating a birthday of her own on Tuesday. So here is what happened this week:

Monday: Little Miss G opened yet more present and got treated to the local rubbish circus since the weather was dreadful and the planned trip to the zoo was not really an option.

Tuesday: Miss G sang 'Happy Birthday Dear Mamma' and then pretty much hijacked my day with a trip to see dinosaurs (National History Museum) and the lions (London Zoo). The first museum pleased Mr H a great deal, the zoo is always a hit with the little miss and I squeezed in a shopping and coffee break between the two whilst she napped in her buggy.
Thanks to one of Little Miss G's godmother we had some free babysitting and Mr H took me out for a lovely birthday dinner in the evening. Cheers to me!

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were pretty much spent relaxing, playing with new birthday toys and receiving yet more birthday gifts, Little Princess Miss G, that is, not me. I am slightly worried that she might be developing an unhealthy addiction to Sesame Street, but I don't blame her for finding Elmo, the Cookie Monster and Kermit too hard to resist sometimes. I am also suffering from a really painful eye allergy at the moment so Elmo and Co did indeed help with childcare...and they say TV is bad!

On Saturday we all went to Frieze Art Fair, where Mr H and I were totally amused by Miss G's reaction to some pieces. It was either fascination and awe or open disgust. I now wish there was a toddlers Art Newspaper as it would surely be a great read.

Sunday was meant to be the day that we were going to take a bike ride to Regent's Park to admire the Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Garden and maybe take a boat trip down the river. A puncture on Mr H's bike meant that the plan was swiftly cancelled, so we had lunch in St John's Wood instead. I did find it quite funny that we left the restaurant with a kid covered in pancake stickers when the poor thing is actually allergic to eggs, perhaps it was some wishful thinking on her part.