My sister was 3 months old yesterday

Sisters
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

But you don't get to have a birthday party when you're a quarter of a year old. You have to wait till you are a whole year old.

Sometimes when you're playing with younger children you have to come down to their level. So today I decided to get down on the floor with Ríodhna on her playmat. We both like it down there. I have to be a little bit careful when I start to kick my legs around.

The other job I have is to make sure that the doggies don't run into the house when Ríodhna is on the floor or on one of her low chairs. Cosmo and Muttley like to lick me and sometimes I don't mind but Ríodhna is too small to have them licking her. It might frighten her.

Last weekend we went to Galway to visit Monica and Simon and Conor and Séan and Liam. It was really sunny so it was a bit hot in the car. But I don't like the wind in my hair and Teddy and Baa don't like the wind in their fur so I made Mammy and Daddy keep the windows closed. It was late when we got there so we had to go to bed but on Saturday we had loads of fun.

We played with bubbles in the garden.

We went for a HUGE long walk and I hardly went on the buggy board at all. I walked mostly and went on Daddy's shoulders for a bit. Liam took advantage of the buggy board. Then the sharks had a wedding in the back garden and then Simon cooked dinner outside. And the grown ups drank fizzy drinks as well as the kids but out of different bottles.

On Sunday I went through about 4 changes of clothes - I had lots of accidents. I got sick in the car - we're calling this a smelly accident and boy was it smelly. Then I spilt lots of bubbles all over me. The I got a bit soaked by accident when the Crump boys were having a water fight. But all the same I enjoyed the day and I was sorry when we had to say goodbye to get home. We seemed to get home much quicker than the drive there. On Monday we had a lazy day - we went and got the dogs from their holidays in the kennels and then we came home and then we went to the swings and slides. No creche at all. So I had plenty of fun there today to make up for it.