These are a few of my favorite things

We had a lovely Christmas. Lots of thoughtful, beautiful gifts were exchanged and I wanted to write a post on just a few of them. One of my favourite gifts to Jack was this gorgeous American Apparel Stripe Sweater Crew Neck. It was like it was made to match his green toddler Vans. He's also wearing a pair of skinny jeans from Zara kids.

As you can see, Jack is clutching some matchbox vehicles throughout the photos, as is so often the case. Where there's a Jack, there's a car, truck, van or lorry. So he was delighted when Santa left a tonne of little mini machines. It amazes me. We could spend a fortune on a huge toy and he'll be too engrossed in examining every tiny detail of a pack of £5 matchbox cars to notice it.

However, no gift this year compared to the present my husband gave Jack for his 2nd birthday. Jack's daddy is an exceptionally talented professional illustrator, and unbeknownst to me, he had secretly been working on a book called Jack says Hello, Maisey says Woof  featuring Jack, and our doglet. The book is absolutely amazing and as you can imagine, it is a joy reading it to him. Barry has included him and I in the book too, along with loads of Jack's toys and clothes which he recognises. It's even written in rhyme. I wish I could include the whole book, but I can't. So, I have added a few of my favourite double page spreads. If you like his illustration style, and want to see more, he blogs too. Find him here.