Christmas Casanova

Merry Christmas everybody - we hope that you had a wonderful, happy day filled with family, food and fun! Robin and I learnt a few good lessons this year:
1. It is VERY important not to over feed a sick child on milk in the middle of the night (even if he asks for it) as the cleaning up from the consequences at 1:30am is not that much fun!
2. The reason you have to start opening presents at the crack of dawn is because each present opened needs to be played with immediately, before opening another. We had six hours (I kid you not) of opening presents, and we still have four under the tree unopened as we ran out of time!
3. No matter how prepared you think you are when it comes to the food, things can always go wrong (we went to friends for lunch where we had a great mac and cheese as the planned roast got thrown in the bin as the meat had gone off!). For my contribution (which was the starters and desert), I thought that I was 100% prepared, but I still managed to spend about 3 hours in the kitchen???

All in all though it was a lovely day and the kids really enjoyed themselves (Daniel is not well, but managed to sleep while we were out and so we were able to eat lunch uninterupted which was a treat). Ben enjoyed himself a lot to - especially when he cuddled up to Sammy in the cupboard (thanks lisa! :) you have started a trend). And she was enjoying it as much as he was I think :)

Lots of love to you all
Merry Christmas

What a Big Night

Tonight is the first night that the boys are sleeping in the same room together!!!! and so far so good. I have had such a mental block about it - as their sleeping patterns are so different, but it has to be done sooner rather than later. And it didn't even take that long to get them settled - but lets not count chickens hey?? :) We have been really busy over the last little while. A visit to Santa on Monday in Mullingar (which is an hour outside of Dublin). It was fantastic! Beautiful grounds, old ruins, a wonderful forest walk and of course Santa. We were out visiting our old neighbours to this week and their new baby which was wonderful - I really do miss Lusk so much! And today we had a lovely time, visiting the new Hamleys Toy store in Dundrum. The boys loved it and so did we. They had snow and a bubble machine at the door, people dressed up as toys helping with demonstrating the toys and toys all over the place for the boys to play with. And to top that a lunch out at Nando's!! Yes, Nando's is here - but it's a little different here as it's not just a take-away, but a restaurant to. And a really nice one at that. We had fun, the boys had fun - it was great.
Daniel is just getting so wonderfully cheeky and smiley - there are a few photo's I just couldn't leave out. The one with chocolate all over his face, was the result of one small biscut :).... Ben is changing and growing so much... All we get these days is "why? why?. why?" and "no, but" as an answer to every request that I make. It is worryingly similar to vicky pollard's catch phrase in little britain! will have to get this out of him :).... Enjoy the photo's....

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas!!

We are SO SO SO excited for tomorrow - I'm taking the boys to see Santa, in the midlands at a country house where he has apparently set up his ice palace in Ireland! Will be taking a lot of photo's to bore you all with tomorrow :). But it's been a busy weekend here - Ben went to rugby with his Dad on Saturday to see Leinster play and I took him to Imaginosity (Children's Museum) today AND we got our tree up this morning. As I write this I'm watching the beautiful twinkly lights - what is it about a christmas tree that instantly cheers you up. I'm really excited for the holidays now. Here are a few photo's of the weekend:













All Happy its Christmas












Our Tree












I do like my spikey hair













Seeing my weight in water at Children's Museum










Delighted! I cracked the code in the bank vault