Play Barn trip and an incident with soap!

Well...Dave has gone off to England for work, I am taking a break from a big design project (laying out a book...long job!) and have just about survived the day!

My great reorganization of my house cleaning schedule (schedules? with kids 2.5 and under, LOL! What was I thinking!) is not really working at the moment, but the kids had fun today, so that is good.

The Mooncoin Mother and Toddler group is finished for the summer, so we all had a day out with the kids to a soft play area, called the Play Barn. It has a bouncy castle (is it a moonwalk, or something like that in the States, can't remember?) a baby soft play area and a big climbing thing 2 stories tall with slides and lots of things to climb on over and through! They loved it... here are a few photos!
We went for a little picnic afterwards, but it was called on account of rain...had to make a run for the car... My friend Sandra and her kids came over for a while after the trip and we were chatting away, she'd brought me the number for the new Montesorri school that I will probably send Aine to in September! Anyway, it was very quiet and then I heard water and laughing from the bathroom. Conor and Aine had locked themselves in the bathroom (that lock needs to come off tomorrow, when I have a screwdriver handy!) and were using the very expensive Pampers Kandoo foaming soap to clean themselves up. Aine was covered up to her armpits, eek! I was not amused, well...okay, I was amused quite a bit, she looked so funny!

Anyway, I just realized today that her baby talk way of saying Conor's name has just disappeared... Conor is no longer "kah-din" he is the proper "Conor" well okay... "cah nah" now... Sniff...end of the baby era...

Aisling is standing alone for quite a while now and is just too shy to take those first steps, soon though!

Back from London!

Made it back...had a great chance to rest and relax with Katy and her family. Her young son Alex (2) renamed me "sausage" :-)

We went to a quilt show on Friday, and charity (thrift) stores Saturday...my kinda stuff (yes, I know I'm weird!!) I also spent time reading and watching TV and not chasing after and worrying about kids... was very nice, though I did miss my girls!!

Aisling apparently was crawling round the house yesterday saying my name and looking for me, Aine told her "don't cry, mommy is coming home today" this morning, too cute!!

Forgot to take photos in London except a few quilts, so won't excite you with those at the moment...

More soon.
Cathi

Aine helping Aisling blow out her candle! 

The start of my update....

I have been overwhelmed in the last few months...Dave has a new job as Business Unit Manager at the factory, Honeywell, that he works for, this means long hours... Aisling is close to walking and so into everything her sister has at this point, so lots of squabbles whines and tears... so momma isn't doing to good with her stress management...chocolate and other forms of junk food seem to be my quick fixes, but need to stop this or I will regain everything that I've lost at Weight Watchers!

On the other hand, the girls are really great. Aine can say so much these days, pretty much everything, though often I have to translate...I understand her speech but it still is very babyish...Js become Ys Uncle Jim for instance is Uncle Yim, Auntie Roisin is Auntie Oisin...cute! She also plays pretend a lot and dresses up...

Aisling is one year old now, as of Sunday! We had a little party with a cake and a few friends over... She is very much a momma's girl, does my head in with whining when I don't have her attached to my hip...it will pass...someday I hope!!

I am still working doing design work, but find I don't juggle it with motherhood very well, so need to stop taking on jobs for a while... I have a few repeating ones, but that is it for now...

Anyway, just wanted to make a start... I leave for London on Thursday to go to a quilt show with my friend Katy...looking forward to a break for the weekend!

Cathi

Getting back to blogging...

Just a quick note to say that I promise I WILL be blogging again...will catch everyone up with life here soon!

Thanks!!!
Cathi