Birthday girl

There it is: One Year Old! How about that? Looking back on the past 12 months has proved to be a lot harder than I imagined. One, there are the astonishingly large gaps in my memory that are probably due more to sleep deprivation than to certain dubious pursuits in my 20's (and 30's, truth be told), and two, it has all just happened so damned fast.

I was looking through the photos we have taken of the little bug over the last 12 months -for a sort of retrospective that you can view here- when the enormity of the change started to dawn on me: she is practically unrecognizable in the photos from the first day or so.

Anyway, we had a bit of a shindig on sunday: had Inde & Macy from the antenatal group round (bit like Juno's first class reunion, actually) and the whanau for some afternoon tea. We dined on delicious banana cake covered in chocolate icing, asparagus rolls (apparently it is a kiwi/Grouden tradition), but the appeal is totally lost on me, brandy snaps, fruit covered in chocolate mousse, you get the idea...

Juno (and the rest of the nippers) got home baked sourdough bread spread with unhulled tahini. Sweetheart, when you are reading this in 20 years time just remember, this was your mum's idea.