My big girl turns 4!

Our beautiful girl turned four a couple of weeks ago, and chose to celebrate by having a fairy party at a nearby fairy shop & party venue. Jasmine, Beau and 10 of Jasmine's bestest friends were hosted by their very own fairy who entertained them for an hour an a half playing games, telling stories and feeding them chocolate birthday cake. They had a blast.

A sparkly birthday throne for a sparkly birthday girl

Her very own birthday fairy and birthday fairy cake

Forward limbo

Beau went as a pirate (manly because his dad didn't want him dressed as a fairy)!

Jasmine is growing into a girl who is extremely thoughtful and kind, determined and brave. Jasmine has a wonderful imagination, and tells us every day about her friends the fairies and friendly dragons. Recently witches and unicorns have been featuring as well, and night time stories have to include a combination of any or all of the above magical creatures eating or rescuing each other.

Jasmine is a bower bird. She collects all things tiny, sparkly and shiny and hides them away in safe places or gives them to the people she loves. She loves to pick flowers to make fairy gardens, which are tiny spaces filled with leaves, flowers, pebbles and anything small, bright, shiny or sparkly she can find. Sometimes tiny dolls act as fairies, but often she just creates a garden for the fairies to come to visit at night time.

She loves to make cubbies. Any small space she can climb into and cover with a blanket or curtain quickly gets filled with all her favourite toys and her pillow. She likes us to post her parcels (presents) which get played with inside the cubby.

Her favourite games at home are hide and seek and monsters (a variation of hide and seek where we pretend to be monsters trying to find her). She always asks when Beau will wake up after his daytime nap and can't wait to play with him when he's up. She loves to visit friends and have guests visit us. She has so many soft toys I put a basket in her room to house them all, and at least 3 accompany her to bed every night. Her favourites are the imaginatively named 'white dog' and another dog named 'rover'. She adores dogs and wants to pat every one we pass.

She has a crazy sweet tooth (like her mum) and will eat almost anything sweet. Her favourite foods are ice-cream and chocolate.

My beautiful girl - you are a treasure and a delight. I love you. Happy birthday.