I could go on and on.
We spent the entire afternoon there and there was always something for A to do. Our most favourite adventure within the Discover Story Centre was the The Tiger Who Came to Tea Exhibition which you can book for only £1.50 extra per person. I had booked the 4pm session and it proved to be the perfect way to end the magical day.
It started off with a physical storytelling session of the book and then we were taken into a little town where all the children could go exploring. There were tiny shops, a supermarket with cute shopping trolleys to a living room to a vets to a little park to a bus where A could go in and pretend to drive it and so much more.
It was a hit as A really did not want to leave! (Cue: one little and the only toddler strop of the day).
Come Sunday, the day of her actual birthday, she woke up to a beautiful surprise – her very own kitchen! She was instantly in love, smiled and laughed, jumped up and down and ran to me to give me a hug.
That evening, we had family over to celebrate her birthday which was a red bus theme and I attempted, albeit a bit crackly to make a red bus cake for my red bus obsessed little girl – however wonky and crackly it was, it did taste lovely!
We all had a lovely time together reminiscing on how quickly the past 2 years have gone. My sister in law filmed us all giving messages to 18 year old A to be shown to her on her 18th birthday. I had no idea she was going to do this so of course, being put on the spot, I only managed to give one message to an 18 year old A.
Can you guess what? I won’t say here in case an older but less than 18 year old A is reading this right now
Indeed, lots and lots of memories were made and A had the time of her life, literally. I felt so emotional seeing her so grown up already, no doubt I’ll be writing about her third birthday soon as time seems to be on fast forward mode nowadays.
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A’s latest update as well as the letter I have written her are both also on the blog now as well.
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