Christening Season, Part I

Our cousin, Baby Clare, got christened on Sunday. So we all went to her church in Ballinteer and were very good and quiet while the Christening was on. It's ok because there's lots to see at a Christening. Clare was very good. One of the other babies didn't like the water so much and got a bit sick but Clare was happy because there was lots going on and she had plenty to look at. Our cousin is very nosey - she watches everything. Jill and Mark are her godparents. That means they are going to look after her specially well.

Clare had been on hunger strike all morning but she made up for it after the Christening. We all went dfor yummy food in a place called Avoca. Riodhna had a nap for the first bit of the meal. And we shared a big bowl of pasta and a big plate of cold meat and I think she ate some of Mammy's fish pie too. Because we were good, we got ice cream afterwards. And then in Clare's house we ate some of her Christening cake. We can be a bit fussy about cake but this one had loads of white chocolate around it and it had yummy pink icing so we are loads.

Mammo stayed in Clare's house that night but then we got collected early from creche by her yesterday and we walked all the way home. I was pretty tired and fell asleep on the couch so she decided to bring us to creche late this morning so we could have a little lie-in - of course we were both wide awake well before 7 so we didn't even use our lie in but we played a few games anyway and didn't get to creche till after the montessoris had started their work in the montessori room. I showed her how to get to creche on the bus. I don't think she knew where to put the buggy or where to sit down when we were on the eleventy-leven bus. And I told her where to ring the bell and where to get off too. They don't have so many buses in Wexford so I bet she was glad I was there to tell her what to do.

Impromptu Visitors

Ella was at Sean's party yesterday. She's Sean's good friend and she had a lovely time and came back with a balloon sword and bubbles and wondered why Mammy wouldn't let her blow bubbles inside. Sean's Mammy lets him blow bubbles inside.

So I thought that was the only exciting this happening this weekend. And then today the Hills came to visit. It's quite a long drive from their house to here but they were here by lunchtime, just in time for all the children to sit up and eat loads of sausages and rashers and spaghetti and toast. Just as if it was a competition to see who could eat the most.

We just hung out all afternoon. We got those bubbles and went outside and blew loads and loads of them. And the Daddies helped us to blow really big bubbles too. We dressed up and I took Thomas train tracks out so Ronan played with those too. And Ella and Caoimhe played with a box of small girlie toys for big girls - except for the Diego which Ronan preferred and I got a bit of a turn with the Dora toys. Caoimhe brought Ella some lovely paints which aren't very messy at all so we drew pictures with those and then decided it would also be a good idea to pay with the messy poster paints and see how many different colour browns we could mix. Ella and Caoimhe were occupied with that for ages, long after I had moved on to other things. Sinead brought us loads of treats to eat. And also we ate the flapjacks that Ella & me had helped Mammy to make this morning.

Although I keep saying Mammy on this blog, most people in creche say Mummy and Maria wrote Mum & Dad on Ella's valentine card and Ella likes to call her Lisa when she gets the chance too. So don't get the impression that we only have one name for our Mammy. When it was nearly bedtime the Hills had to go so they could drive all the way back to their house. We just had time for tidy up time and a little relax before it was time for us to go to bed.

I'm dreaming of a white February

It's been snowing all week. Every morning the ground has been white when we have woken up. It doesn't stick for very long but there are loads more snow showers curing the day and we've been able to make snowballs and a tiny little snowman with forks for arms and balls for eyes in creche. We seem to have spent a lot of time in the car this week because traffic moves very slowly when it's snowing. Mammy got so stuck in traffic one evening that Daddy had to get us from creche and then we had to walk nearly all the way to Ranelagh bridge to get in the car. It was snowing heavily and it was very wet. We tried hiding under Daddy's coat but our feet got wet and we had to take our shoes off in the car.

Apart from that we do like the snow and we were delighted when we woke up this morning to see that there was even more snow and it was sticking. We got wrapped up really cosy and put on our waterproof coats and our boots. First we went out in the back garden and threw snowballs and jumped on the snowy trampoline and tried snow angels but the snow was too hard to make a proper angel pattern - it was quite icy really.


Out front was much better because it was softer. We made proper snow angels on the footpath. And we picked up loads of snow and made a snowman on our garden wall. The girls across the road had made one on their wall too - that's how we got the idea to put it up there. We played until we were too frrezing and then we came inside and had a choco-mocca-locca-chino (or hot chocolate to normal people!).

This blog is 4 years old

and I haven't missed a month yet. Well done me.

We went to the panto today. It seems like a long time since Christmas and I thought pantos were for Christmas. It was Cinderella. She's my favourite because there are no witches in Cinderella. We brought loads of treats with us. First we were in seats that were very high up in a little room - but they weren't where mammy had wanted to buy the seats so just before everything started, we ran back downstairs and a nice man let us go in to better seats where we could all see the whole stage.

The panto was great. Better than Beauty and the Beast last year. That was good but I was too shy to shout out "he's behind you" all the time and there were a lot of scary bits too. This year I wasn't shy at all. It was nap time for Riodhna so she slept a good bit for the first half. She was awak for the ice cream at the break though and Daddy bought us wands with light too. We lovely the flashing lights. Mammy doesn't seem to like them so much - she won't let me play with is at night time after tha light is turned out because it's too bright and flashy. We shouted our way through the panto and at the end we had a dancing competition to see which side could do the dance the best. Because we were in the middle, Riodhna and Mammy were on one side and Daddy and me were on the other. I think we won.

Afterwards we went to Captain Americas for some food. That was pretty scrummy and there was a clown who made balloons for me and Riodhna, the dog holding balloons ones like Riodhna got at the Christmas party in Mammy's office but without sunglasses on the dogs!