Charlie's 1st birthday

The 25th of August was Charlie's first birthday. The actual day was a Thursday and we had some low-key celebrations with Ruth and Colin on the day and then again with a few friends on Saturday (which was a bank holiday weekend).

Birthday gifts - paper is as good as the present!

"look mum, no hands!"
Red velvet birthday cupcakes

Birthday dinner

New Brio ride-on

New lounge chair

London Zoo

We waited for Nana and Poppy to arrive before taking Charlie on his first trip to the zoo. We are very spoiled in Melbourne with great enclosures and lots of space for the animals and the visitors! London obviously has the limitation of space but it has two great enclosures - the penguins, where you can get a really good view of them swimming, and the monkeys where you walk into an open air enclosure and they are just swinging around your head. It was brilliant! I think I might have enjoyed it more than Charlie ;-)

two monkeys

two more monkeys

with Poppy

with Nana