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Can you believe it! I've been here for two whole years! It's my birthday today and I had a party on Saturday with lots of friends and family. We had balloons, sandwiches, jelly and ice cream and cake. But best of all was presents - I can open them by myself now, and I got some lovely things.

Daddy says he will put more photos on the web when he recovers from organising the party!

Today we went to Gran's for dinner as it was Easter Sunday. After my nap in the afternoon we did egg decorating, and we made a rabbit egg, a chicken, a mouse, and even an Upsy-Daisy egg!

Today is my birthday! I've been here a whole year and it's gone SOOO quickly. I've gone from being a little person who was very cute but couldn't do very much to someone who can crawl, eat lots of different foods, sing, and give really nice cuddles!

Right back at the start of last year mummy and daddy decided to keep a web diary for me because they know that some people live a long way away and can't always come to visit that often. That means that there is a whole year's worth of stories and pictures here on the web!

Daddy has written a clever animation for me to celebrate my birthday. It shows you all the different pictures that come from stories about me and my year. If you click on a picture then you can read the story that goes with it!

I wonder what I will do in the NEXT twelve months...

The little module for Drupal that I wrote and that makes it very easy to add flash content has been downloaded a few times, and every now and then I get a request for help or a bug report.

The latest request was from this site. My module is being used in the real world! How cool is that! You can see an example of the flash content they are embedding on this page.

You might have noticed that we haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks! We were so busy enjoying Christmas and New Year, and now getting ready for Abigail's christening, that we just haven't had any free time!

We've got some great pictures though, and hopefully things will get a little quieter after this weekend and we will be able to upload some of them for you to see!

Welcome to Abigail's advent calendar! Each day another door can be opened. Some doors have a picture behind them, but some doors have some surprises...

If you are in an interactive activity you can leave it by pressing Escape, or by clicking on the little X icon that will appear at the top right of the calendar!

I'm forever singing songs to Abigail that I only know half the words to, so whilst searching out the other half of the words to one on the internet, I found this poem, which I thought was very sweet......

I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you're not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs, dust go to sleep.
I'm nursing my baby, and babies don't keep.

from www.nurseryrhymes4u.com

If you've visited stuartandnicola.com before you might notice that some of the content seems to be missing. Don't worry, it's still here, but we've made a few changes...

We're really enjoying writing Abigail's diary and a lot of people we know are reading it, but in light of recent media coverage about the dangers of having pictures of little ones on websites we have decided to protect some of the site content.

This means that we are going to ask you to register before you can view some areas of our site (those that have photos of Abigail, her cousins and her friends). We're sure that you'll understand, and the registration process is quite painless (honest!)

 
This is me! A picture from each Saturday since I was born, so you can see how big I've grown! This is a flash animation so you need to view the full entry of this post to see it!

I was just downloading pictures from the camera, and I spotted this one that Nikki took - this is probably the best photo we have ever taken of our cat Bubble. I don't know if Nikki set the camera to a low f number, or if it chose the setting itself, but I think this is a great picture the way all the grass is blurry in the background!