Like my cousin Charlie

My highchair arrives at last
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Look at my lovely highchair. Now when everyone else is eating, I can sit up at the table too. And if it's not time for me to have a meal, I can have a rice cake or a piece of toast or pitta bed to chew on. Im developing an early attachment to carbs! Mind you, it' more about the chewing than the eating these days. My third tooth made its first appearance about a week ago and it has been working its way down ever since so I can sometimes soak a whole bib in about 10 minutes these days.

Tooth number 3 is interesting. Mammy says I should have got one of the top middle ones to match up with the bottom middle ones I already have. But that's not what I got. I got a little one over to the right hand side. My cousin Charlie got that tooth out of order too. Must be a family thing. You can't see it in a photo yet. I'll blog one when it comes down a lot.

I'm learning lots of new things now I'm in creche every day. I love clapping my hands. I clapped all weekend any time someone reminded me about it. I'm getting pretty good at rattles and music too. Ella told me it's autumn now which means it's colder and darker than I remember it being before. Because of that I've been getting a bit of a bad cough and sometime my chest sounds a bit noisy like Daddys so I have to wrap up warm with my hat and coat when we go out.

This Sunday we went to my friend Grace's christening. She looked very pretty in a lovely christening robe that her Mammy wore. We went to the church first - there were lots of babies and children here and we were all very good. Then we went back to her house where I had my normal food and drink but Mammy and Daddy and Ella had lovely food and drink sitting outside in the back garden (well actually Ella mostly ate crisps!). We did lots of chatting and I got Jacinta to give me my bottle and I made friends with Jonathan too. Grace was very busy with all her relations. Ella tried to get Mammy to play some ping pong with her but I don't think Mammy's very good at that sort of thing really - the bigger children were much better.

Happy birthday to me

Happy birthday to me
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Yes, I had a birthday party/ Actually I had two. One at home on my birthday day. I stayed at home with Mammy & Ríodhna all day. In the morning I got my presents from my family - the noughties version of the fisher price garage from Mam & Dad and some extra people from Ríodhna. Mam had to assemble the garage for me - it took her ages but it was worth the wait.

We just chilled out and played some games and then Mammó arrived and we went for a walk to the shops. It all got very exciting at tea time when some of my aunties and uncles arrived for a party.

I was a bit overwhelmed by it all but I soon recovered to inspect all my presents, eat some of the food, help blow up more balloons, help Dad decorate all the cake and then finally the best bit. Happy birthday to me and blowing out the candles. We had sausage rolls and chicken and pizza and pitta bread and dips and fizzy apple juice (me) and fizzy wine (everyone else) and cake and sweets and Uncle Jamie's favourite crisps I was so excited I'm surprised I managed to go to sleep at all. I love being 3 and I certainly love birthday parties and presents.

The next day Mammy had to go back to her office. We brought a pink cake with a fairy on it to the creche and at snack time we had a party and everyone sang happy birthday to me again.

Mammy goes to her office every day now so we get up early in the morning and all go to the creche. Sometimes in the car and sometimes on the Luas. The car is pretty slow. At least we can have a chat. And I have my breakfast in the toddler room again now until its time for Maria to collect her class at 9 o'clock. Ríodhna is in the baby room. One day Estella and I went to visit our sisters together and we got to blow bubbles and eat some marshmallows.

Girl Interrupted

Not quite balancing
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So I was getting on really well with my few days at the creche. But then Ella was sick so we all stayed at home for a whole week in the house. And I didn't bother going to the creche either. I don't think it was exactly what Mammy had planned for our last full week together but I enjoyed it. I hardly ever had to go in the car at all. So I had all my naps in my cot and some days I had really long naps. I think it's because I had a little bit of a cold and a cough too - mine still isn't really better but I"m too little for cough bottle like Ella and I have no temperature.

I really enjoyed being looked after by my Mammó this weekend so I was very good and slept all night for her. She might agree to mind me again now! I didn't go to the creche with Emma on Monday but yesterday we both went for a half day and today I stayed in the baby room for a long time while Mammy did some messages. Ella's friend Estella's sister has started too - she's a little bit older than me so I think she's going to be my friend. Ella says Max's little sister might come to the creche soon too. It's fun there - there are loads of toys to make noise with that I've never seen before.

It's Ella's birthday tomorrow I watched her and Daddy make a birthday cake. It looked yummy. I can't wait until I'm old enough to make cakes and to help lick the bowk.

Wax on, wax off

Helping Daddy wash the car
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

Now that I'm nearly three, Mammy and Daddy have obviously decided that it's time I started to help out with the chores. So I had to help Daddy wash both cars a few weekends ago. I didn't mind too much - it's quite fun getting splashed but most of the time I stayed well clear of the water.

The day before I washed the car, I stayed home from creche to help Mammy because Muireann and Sarah brought Alex and Grace for lunch. Of course they are much smaller than me but I can help them play with toys and talk to them. Alex was swimming all around the floor - he can move pretty fast. Grace had a lovely snooze in Sarah's arms and played on the playmat.

Then I got sick - thankfully not until after we had the visitors here. The doctor said it was a virus - that might just be what they say when they don't know what's wrong with you. Anyway I had a bad cough and I don't like the cough bottle for dry coughs at all. I had a bit of a temperature too - one night Mammy and Daddy gave me a bath at 2 in the morning to fix it and after that I had lots more medicine. And also I lost my voice. I don't know where it went to - I was hoarse and then it went away completely and I could only whisper. Thankfully it's back again now.

I was home for a whole week with Mammy and Ríodhna and then Mammo came to mind us because Mammy and Daddy had to go on a long message to see a rugby match - it must hav been a long match because they were gone for 3 whole days and 2 nights but that was ok because Jill and Mark and Jamie and Emma were here too. Emma even brought me to the creche on Monday morning. She got me there a lot earlier than Mammy does although Mammy says we'll be going early again from Friday when she has to start working in her office every day.