Happy New Year!

I realised that this blog is not only a way of keeping you lovely people up to date but will stand as a little record of this time, that perhaps we and the kids will look back on one day. So I'm going to try to do a few more posts, and try to cover the things the kids might be interested in in years to come....

Right now I need to say that life at home with Niamh and Joe and Sylvie is wonderful. I'm off work for a couple of weeks over Christmas, so I get to spend all my time with my three favourite people. Sylvie is a little smiler, she just grins all the time. She really makes me laugh. She has started to babble a little bit, tries to sit up all the time, and loves being nude, just like her brother. And Joe is a little nutter: he makes up words that we can't understand and says them over and over again, in a really insistent way, as if we should understand. (His current favourite is 'doctor' which he says with great confidence as he points to planes, trees, shopping trolleys, you name it). He runs around yelling and shouting and giggling and banging things. This morning he rolled around on the floor of his bedroom with me and Niamh and Sylvie, giggling and loving it. We do spend a fair bit of time 'attending to' Sylvie and Joe during the night and of course all day, but despite the lack of sleep it is all worth it.

I don't know if I've mentioned it but Joe gets in the shower with me (and/or Niamh) in the mornings. He loves his showers and baths. When we were staying at Breda's over Christmas, Joe stayed in the shower with me, then Niamh then Breda, pretty much all morning. While he's there he arranges things, like shampoos etc. It's hilarious.


Being a parent is great. Absolutely the best thing I've ever done.