Easter Sunday: Captain Uncle Ross reads the Proclamation of Independence at the GPO

Mammy and Mammo went to see him but we stayed at home to get started on our easter eggs. The proclamation is quite long and has some hard words in it that I don't think we'll be able to read for a while yet. The next day he was in all the papers - well his hands were on the front of the Examiner. And this other photo was in the Indo. And there was one like it in the Irish Times. We call him the face of the Defence Forces now.

Happy Birthday to me

My yummy birthday cake
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

I'm 1 today. Hurray! I got loads of presents. Ella helped me to unwrap them. She tried to help me to play with some of them too but I've got pretty good at screaming loudly whenever I don't want her to do that. I got a dolly. I kiss her lovingly and then throw her to the ground. I think she likes it.

Big news is that I've decided it's time I learned to move some more. So in the past week. I started to take to my feet.

Any time I find a free set of adult hands, I grab hold and off I go. I'm practising loads. I made Mammo walk around Emma's house all weekend while Mammy & Daddy were moving us out of the new house and back to our house. We're staying with Emma & Jamie till tomorrow because Bob wasn't quite finished in our house.

I'm getting very fast on my bum too and then also for variation I sometime do actual, real, proper crawling. I can pull myself up and stay standing for quite a while and once or twice, I've even shuffled sideways a step or two - maybe the start of cruising.

We had chocolate cake this evening with a candle for my birthday. Ella made it for me. She made it some fairy cakes too so I'm going to take some of those in to my friends in creche tomorrow.

Night, night