Tarly was born at home at 1.51am on Friday 6th December.
Davies slept through the whole event and woke at about 4 am just as the midwives left. He was pleased to meet his new sister, but slightly more excited about opening the next door on his chocolate advent calendar!
From the very beginning Scarlett was part of the family, as though we couldn’t quite remember what life was like before she was with us. She was your classic second child, easier and calmer than her older brother had been and probably the product of more relaxed and confident parents. She did the nappy ad baby thing of lying under an activity gym and kicking and gurgling for ages.
On her first birthday my parents came up to stay for the weekend and we went to the local working farm for a very very cold Christmas event. There was a choir, a Father Christmas and icicles forming on our eyebrows! 😉 Her birthday pressies included lots of FP Little People stuff like a dolls house and a train set.
During Scarlett’s second year we moved back to Sussex and she got to know her grandparents properly. She’s always been a Daddy’s Girl and now she became a Grandad’s Girl too 🙂 She also spent lots of time with her cousins and was a huge mix of girlie girl and utter tomboy!
Throughout she and Davies have always been best friends 🙂
By the time Tarly was two she was hugely into Dora The Explorer. It’s been an enduring obsession! With the exception of a playhouse from my brother I think all of her pressies had a Dora theme, including the much laboured over birthday cake!
This year Scarlett’s personality has developed even further, she has likes and dislikes (and hates with a passion!), she is fiercely independant, challenging, adorable, loving, charming and bright. She is the little girl who receives compliments from strangers :-). She loves me and her Daddy, her big brother and our cats. She loves Dora and Barbie Girl, she loves to sing and dance and climb, she loves babies and pink, she loves to sparkle and twinkle, she loves to play in muddy puddles. When she grows up she is going to be ‘just like you Mummy!’ she likes to have her nails painted and then she picks it straight off, she likes to wear pretty clothes and then take them off and run naked.
Every moment I spend with her makes me wonder how someone so much a person in their own right can stay so much a part of me. She makes me laugh a hundred times a day, she melts my heart with her kisses, she’s a princess, a minx, my biggest ever challenge, my biggest ever success. Happy Birthday Scarlett Teeny. I love you very very much xxxx
