To be sure to be sure, tap a tha marnin tae yaa, kiss the blaarney so.....

I love ireland, what a great place, there is so much to see and do here, weve walked for miles! Lisa youll chuckle to find out that molly has actually been a wee horror since we got here and im sure its because she has never spent so much time strapped into buggies and car seats getting humphed about here there and everywhere. As soon as you put her in you get the wee scowly angry eyebrow, you know the one, when she looks just like her daddy!

Apart from it being really lovely to be hanging out with Aunty LouLou and Uncle Bawbag, weve been to fota safari park, round cork town centre about a thousand times, Elizabeth fort, cork museum, fitzgerald park, blackrock castle and observatory, blarney castle (yes we did all kiss the blarney stone, ALL, EXCEPT THE BIG BLARNEY CHICKEN BAWBAG!!), a day to cobh and thats not even half of what we had planned to do. Youd need to come here on holiday for about six months to even scratch the surface of all the touristy things that you can be doing here.

There has also been a few firsts for molly - first time on a plane, first time in ireland, first sink bath, first time sitting up on her own, first time rolling over onto her front and the first time she has had to sleep in a drawer!!! Enjoy the photos.

The best of the best so far

I feel a certain amount of guilt for not updating this more often. On one hand, itd be great to document every second of molly growing up, but on the other hand, there just doesnt seem to be enough hours in the day to justify sitting infront of my "state of the ark" computer, staring at that awful blue bar waiting for what seems an eternity on pictures uploading. So while im in ireland, im going to use geek boys super fast system, get it all done in one hit.

These photos are in no particular order but they are some of my favorites.

Happy 6 Month Birthday Molly

So, when molly turned 6 months, we treated her to her own room, give her and us a little more independance, not that i was particularly bothered, shes still a great sleeper for the most part. But i had fun making up her room. She has got a lovely collection of bits and bobs for her room from all her lovely relatives and friends - thanks to everyone. What im going to do when she is a bit older is buy a lovely big globe for her and let her see where all her things are from. So if any of you are somewhere exciting itd be lovely to get a nice postcard or little trinket to add to her cork boards.

Oh and a special thank you to Aunty PamBam for the lovely prints and my lovely New Zealand volcanic mud face pack - you can see i enjoyed it :)

Mollys got a boyfriend!!

Well we were in Milton Keynes end of March to catch up with some old friends. Its been a long time since I was in good ol MK, its been too long! Due to dodgy car im gutted that we didnt get to see everyone that i should have seen. We will get to Chepstowe to see you in the summer Liz, I promise. So we didnt really get up to anything exciting, just going round some old haunts, bit of charity shopping and visiting the odd pub or two. Many thanks to ma wee LauraPie and Tom for putting us up and putting up with us for a whole week. We had a lovely time. Wee molly had a great time with her boyfriend Isaac. Aww what a wee cracker he is, well a big cracker actually. Hes only three weeks older than wee molly and twice the size. I'll post some more photos at some point, laura managed to get some great shots.

So hopefully we will manage down again in the summer, get the tent out, im quite sure that molly will love to go camping, try and see all the folks we missed this time around.