A Birthday Party

Daddy's taking photos again
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

So many birthdays these days. I wonder who's next! We went to Galway this weekend for Simon's birthday party. It was a lot of driving - all the way down on Saturday morning and then all the way back on Sunday morning so that Mammy & Daddy could go to a match. I entertained myself in the back of the car, had lots of chats and even talked to Ríodhna occasionally. There were loads of people at the Crumps - mostly adults and boys - the Crump boys and their cousin Ruadhrí and their friend Aengus.

But that's ok because I had Liam's full attention and we played lots of games, ran around in the garden, played on the slide, watched a video and after the food and the cake, I even had a snooze in his room with Ríodhna asleep in the cot until Mammy and Daddy decided it was time to go back to the B&B. It was a lovely B&B but it was the middle of the night and it was lashing rain and really windy when they finally decided to go. I was glad I had my raincover for my buggy but even wrapped up inside there it was a bit scary and I was glad when we got back to the lovely room we were staying in. Don't ask me how many candles were on the lovely chocolate cake - it looked like quite a few.

It's not summer any more. It's autumn. You can tell because when it stops raining in autumn, it's not as sunny as it is when it stops raining in summer and at night I need my proper quilt covering me. On Sunday Jill brought me up to the green near the house we're staying in to find conkers. I got loads. I know all about conkers because in creche we've been talking about autumn and making hedgehog pictures with proper spikes and painting leaves.