Ballet Night

The ballet came around again and this time Áine and Ciara were both in it.
Ciara was a diamond and Áine was a fairy. We had a few nerves but both really were very proud of themselves and enjoyed it and I hope you do too.

Natural; Born Killers !

We are able to sleep safe in our beds now, all manner of villains and baddies that lurk in the night will give us a wide berth with 2 natural born killers sleeping under our roof.
Lorcan and Áine both started doing karate and got the first two yellow tips on their white belts (see the yellow strips on their belts). As you can see Lorcan is a serious no nonsense killer where as Áine more of a killer with a smile, wouldn't want to meet either of these in a dark alley way....

Womaniser!

No not me, I'm talking about the kids.
We got a WII game called Just Dance at christmas and the girls love it.
You kind of try to mimic a person on screen dancing while holding the control.
This is the girls doing the start of a song called Womaniser...

Áine at Ballet

We got to go and see Áine doing her ballet class for the end of the year

Caly's Birthday

We do it for everyone else in the house so we had to do it for Caly's birthday too.
We decided that the 1st of Dec is Caly's birthday and Michelle even baked a cake and all (any excuse). Well without further ado here is the standard Happy Birthday video. He seemed to like his cake too.

Ciara is Doing Ballet

Ciara has been doing the Baby Ballet and absolutely loves it. We got to go for the last class of the year to see what she does here is a quick clip.

Visit Santa in Rathwood

For the second year running we went to visit Santa in Rathwood. We arrived and ate our dinner, the usual Carvery fair. Then we first had to visit Mrs Claus. She told us a story about how the reindeers learned to fly. Then we all got a go at making magic reindeer food (it's magic dust in the food you see).
We then boarded the Santa express train to visit Santa's house in the woods. We were met by an elf who brought us to santa's house. The visit went well and we all got great presents. A train journey back a bit of shopping then home to watch the Late Late Toy show.

Áine getting her first badge in Ladybirds

Áine got her first badge in Ladybirds in a little ceremony. We all went down to see and took a short video for posterity.

Lorcan's Birthday

Lorcan had a party in the house and we got a couple of teachers from the Blackbird Gallery in town where Lorcan and Aine go to art class to come and do art with them. It was brilliant and everyone loved it. You'd hardly know there was 20+ kids in the house.
The video below is from the birthday on the day not the party because Lorcan didn't do the traditional Happy Birthday thing on the big day.

Halloween

We went out trick or treating as usual. Did the whole estate on a very cold night. Came back to the house and did all the traditional halloween games. Here is a quick video of some of the games.

Áine's 6th Birtday

That time of year again and Áine had her 6th birthday. We had a clown in the house and the kids all really seemed to enjoy him. He gave good value for money he was there 3 hours. A little unorthadox but a success. Have a look at the traditional Birthday video.

Now Ciara's growing up and leaving the nest too!

Ciara has started in playschool. She was so proud with her bratz school bag and everything. She had a great time the first day and the playschool looks great. She'll really enjoy it here I'd say, everyone is really nice and it looks like a place that is run not just for cash but to give the kids a good start.

Math Homework Help with SecondTeacher

Sorry I've been so lax in putting stuff in this blog over the summer it's just triying to get Second Teacher out has been time-consuming (lame excuse I know)
Anyway I promise I'll have a few new posts up by weekend
Bye
Rob

Back to School

Well it's that time of year again and the lads are back in school. Áine is going into high infants and Lorcan into 2nd class can't believe it.

Center Park Again because we Love it!

Well it's becoming a family tradition Center Parc for a week in the holidays.
We were absolutely blessed with the weather every day it was near 30 Degrees.
The lads spent most of the time either on the beach, in the pool or in the playgrounds.
Ciara went into 2 kids clubs this year and love them and Lorcan did a tree treking task where he climbed up trees and poles in the forest.
Center Parc was just perfect we should have stayed 2 weeks. But we went to London for a week. The hotel was a bit cramped and Lorcan and Ciara both got sick. But we struggled on and went to Lego land which the kids loved even if it absolutley lashed one day we were there. We also went to do the London Eye which was good and the London Aquarium which we all liked especially Ciara and the Jelly Fish. We had great plans of Madame Tussads etc but it was just going to take too long and we were knackered.
So went to Lecister Square had a bite to eat and then a stroll to Covent Garden and watched the street perfromers.
Overall a real enjoyable holiday (except Slough but that's another story) but not sure if we'll go back to London with the kids, Center Parc is just too easy.