Ella & Ríodhna's World

My name is Ella. This used to be my blog. Then when I was 2 years, 5 months and 1 week old, I got a little sister called Ríodhna. I love my sister so now we're sharing our blog. Welcome to our world...

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Happy Blog-iversary Ella


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Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.
My big sister has been blogging for 5 years now. I've only be able to help her out for the last 2 years and 10 months. And in June, we're going to get a new little blogger in the family. We're quite excited about that. Mammy has quite a big bump now and she can feel the new baby kicking but we can't feel it yet. We are planning on getting in loads of practice between now and June though. What with Dominic and then Emma and Jamie's new baby in April. We'll be old hands by the time ours arrives.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Visiting DDJ


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Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.
So today we finally got to go visit baby Dominic. He is more than a whole week old now. And he hadn't seen us at all. So we were very impatient to get there.

He seems to be settling in well in his house. He has a really comfy chair - we both know how comfy it is. He likes his cats - although Bagpuss is the only one getting really close to him at the moment. Lori was hiding upstairs. But I did get to play with Tyra too. And to help eat the cakes we brought - one of th great things about visiting.

Mammy forgot to ask if I could hold him today. But she promises to ask Jill if I can the next time we see him.

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Let it snow


Made it
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.
Wow, it's been a snowy week. I've been to creche 3 days this week but Ella hasn't even been back to school because the yard is too slippy. Still she has to walk with Johanna to collect me every day and then we have to slip and slide our way back home again. It's been sort of snowing all the time since New Year's Eve. But last night we had the most snow. Baby Dominic Dermot Jordan must have brought it with him when he arrived yesterday evening but he's still in hospital today so he can't even enjoy it with us.



Snow Angel
So this morning we decided we had to go somewhere proper to play in the snow. We went to meet Susan and Peter and Louis. Although Louis didn't get out of his buggy. To tell you the truth I wasn't paying too much attention to what anyone else was doing. Because I was busy toboganning down the hill in the park on my inflatable dinghy and when I got to the bottom, I walked straight back up and did it again. I kept Daddy busy at the bottom catching me to make sure I didn't fly into the river. The other kids all took turns too but I definitely had the most turns.



Cosy hands
We did other stuff too. Like snow angels. And best of all, drinking hot chocolate that Noreen brought with her for when our hands got cold and wet from the snow. We tried pushing the snow together for a snowman too but our hands got very very cold. There were loads of other kids there too and mostly everyone agreed the hill was the best place to play.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Our new cousin: Dominic Dermot Jordan

Remembers this from 30 yrs ago
Remembers this from 30 yrs ago
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.
Vital Statistics
Born 8th January 2010 at 18:39
8 lbs
A boy!!!
With lots of dark hair
Very, very cute
We're going to help look after him (for as long as he lets us)

We're going to meet him next Saturday. Yippee!

Congratulations Jill and Mark xx

Friday, January 01, 2010

Happy 2010 - He's behind you


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Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.
Yes, it's a whole new year. And the Crumps were here to help us to celebrate that. So our new year started very well - with lots of fun and chaos at home, and then a huge treat of going to the panto and then we all went out for food together although as we had been eating all afternoon and had been up late last night, it wasn't the most food we've ever eaten.

We all loved the panto. There was loads of music and dancing. My favourite bits were all the music and dancing bits. The panto fairy was on roller skates and now we're going around saying "oompa, loompa, stick it up your jumper" which is a bit different to Ríodhna's magic spell she was using before. Monica bought us flashing lights to annoy everyone with. I got a light sword like the boys and Ríodhna got one that looks like a magic wand and twirls round and round. Last year Ríodhna fell asleep at the panto but this year, although she was a little bit tired she was far too interested in what was going on to have a snooze.

It was a good way to start another exciting year.