Daddy minds 5 children

And Ríodhna too
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

If you take all the Crumps and us and add us together, none of us is the same age so technically we could all be part of the same family. Which is why it was ok for all the boys to come to our house and stay for the evening and night and for Daddy to mind all of us while Mammy and Monica went out to a hen party. I don't know what a hen party is because they were dressed up as hens when they left.. It sounds funny. I think they were going on a boat - more like ducks than hens.

Then today we left Daddy at home and we all went to the zoo. All of us and mammy and Monica and we meet the boys two cousins and their auntie aoife there too. I love the zoo. It was raining some of the time but I had my buggy cover and everyone else had rain coats and the animals don't mind the rain. I was very busy for all the time we were there, running up and down and over and back to the different animals and between all of us so I didn't like having to sit in my buggy very much because I really didn't need a rest. We saw monkeys, got really close to two tigers having a nap, stared right into the eyes of a wolf and watched the sea lions. And then it rained very heavily so we went into the restaurant and had a picnic just like we were on holidays again. Mammy had brought food but actually Aoife went and bought chocolate muffins and other things and the muffins were the real highlight.

After lunch we went to the snake house and although I'd just been to the toilet 5 mins earlier, when we were finished I decided I needed to go again and of course I got to go because when you say you need to go to the toilet and you are as good as me, you always get taken there.

After snakes we saw Elephants and then another huge shower was coming so it was time to run to the car (via the gift shop where I got a small monkey like the ones we saw and Ella got a small parrot like the one who sat on her shoulder on holidays) and then we had to say good bye and off we went home for a big relax after a very busy weekend.

After all that running around, I finally had my nap in the car - at least 4 hours after I normally have a nap so I really needed it.