Josie Turns Five

I can't believe that my baby turned FIVE and starts big school in 2 days.

Last Sunday (the 20th) Josie turned five.

Most of you will know that Josie was very fixated on her dummy for most of her life. When she turned 4, we reduced her dummy time from whenever she felt the need, to just bed times and on that day we also told her that when she turned five the dummies would go completely. This was a repeated theme over the last 12 months. We would remind her every so often, when she turned five, there would be no more dummies because she was a big girl, going to big school.

As her 5th birthday drew nearer, we reminded her more often, and she was quite ready for it. She would tell all and sundry that when she turned 5, she would not be using a dummy anymore. Up until that time however, she made the most of her dummy time.

So the day she turned five she was very excited because I had told her a couple of months ago we would take the dummies and give them to the sick kids at the hospital. We made our preps and off we went to the Sydney Children's Hospital. We had wanted to prepare the nurses there so we asked a friend who is a doctor there to contact the front desk to let them know that a crazy lady and a 5 year old were bringing a bag of dummies to them. When we got there I explained the situation and the nurses were just lovely and did the whole handing over of the dummies ceremony and even gave her a birthday present. Josie was very proud.

After we dropped off the dummies, off we went to her 5th birthday party.

The entertainment was a family who did Sand Art. It was so much fun!

We had about 20 or so kids there, from school and family. Everyone had a great time making their Sand Art.

Its a fabulous idea.
In the first activity, the kids picked a little bottle and then used the coloured sand with a funnel to fill it. They then put a lid on the top, the bottle was sealed and the kids got to take home their creation.
In the second activity, the kids picked a picture which was sticky with sections covering the sticky bits, and you peeled off the sections and poured coloured sand on the exposed bits and the sand stuck. The kids then got to take home the sand painted picture they made.

I think the kids really enjoyed themselves and even the little kids had fun.

After the party, and the packing up, we headed off to Baba & Dyeda's to open presents. Josie got thoroughly spoilt and it took over 40 minutes to open everything up. Becca was Santa bringing her the presents one and a time and Josie loved opening so many presents.

It was a lovely day for everyone.


On Australia Day, Philip turned 15, and we celebrated his and Josie's birthdays at Trudy's place where we had fantastic food as usual and relaxed and played Scattegories. Granny made a wonderful Barbie cake which Josie just loved.

This Sunday we go to The Eiger Swiss restaurant. And that will be the last outing for Josie's birthday this year ;-)