How fast did that year go - Daniel's One

The Cake

My Beautiful Boys

Opening Presents

More Loot

Had to add this - LOVE the smile

This post is so overdue - and I'm sorry to all the family... I have really struggled this last week with Daniel's birthday. He is so wonderful and such a delight for us, but I have been a bit sad that he's not a baby anymore.... We had a wonderful party, all the kids had a really good time I think. Daniel loved the attention, and even for a small gathering, I couldn't believe how much work went into getting everything ready.... True to the summer we're having it poured with rain and so we were had to stay inside. Here are the pics of the day, and a few others I just had to add









Watching the Ducks









Ben's new angle on slide

Father's Day

The first and most important thing to say is that something happened today - that has never happened before, and probably will never happen again - Daniel had a three hour sleep this morning from nine until twelve! This allowed us all to have a rest before we hit the Teddy Bears picnic in Black Rock park... And what a lovely day. There were jumping castles, face painting, magicians and jugglers, people on stilts and LOTS of balloons. The boy loved it. And so did we. When we got back we had even more fun - Daniel was in a really silly mood and chasing his ball all over the house, laughing and giggling and practicing his walking. he even stood up on his own without support... so we're still hoping for an independent step by Wednesday....

Our Weekend

We've been exploring a little and found our local beach - Kiliney. And it's oh so posh :)... Lovely beach, we went down and the amount of yachts and sail boats was amazing... And it was pretty too. We had lunch with the Kents today and I loved this photo of ben and katie - on the Dora laptop...



Daniel has been a little under the weather and has had a really high temp for the past three days. If it doesn't come down by tomorrow it's off to the doc for us. I've been saying this so much lately, but I can't believe that Daniel is going on one - we bought his present today - a tricycle with safely bars so he can't fall off. Can't wait to take him on walks with it.

June Bank Holiday

we have had the most fantastic weather this weekend - it has been truley spectacular ! It has been hot, windless and perfect and we are all saying long may it last. There was a maritime festival in dublin this weekend and we all has a great time.... Lots of music and street performers and food and fun. Yesterday was equally good and we even managed to get the pool set up for the boys to have a paddle in ... The pics say it all :) have a look...