all in a day's work

drop in into our house during the AM hours of the day and you will probably see this little piece of kitchen demolition occuring... not terribly good photography but i just had to share it as it happens almost everyday and i'm sure you all feel my pain :)

its the usual scenario of "just have to squeeze one more little job in before i attend to the eamon" and - too late ... crash clatter bang ... eamon has found the kitchen cupboard and is helping himself to everything in sight.

there is no doubt that the little baby is gone and the toddler is here!!

however, as we all know, toddlers have an innate ability to be extremely cute when necessary :) isn't that why our heart melts and we forget all about the disciplinary action we were planning on taking?

eamon's latest is this over-the-top cheeeeesy smile. you can't help but laugh at his silliness :)

time to catch up!

yay! finally some time to blog!

i thought it was about time i touched base again to let u all know that we are still here + ok!

mum + dad have been and gone, and life has generally returned to normal (well, as normal as it can be!) ... summer is nearly over and the nights are getting cooler (eek!)

family life is crazily busy and one week seems to merge into the next. i'm so glad we have the weekend, especially sundays, to reflect and make sense out of the craziness!

needless to say, the last few months have been nothing short of incredibly good and i hope to share some more of the memories with you soon (as time permits of course. i may have to do some bargaining with eamon).

for now i'll leave you with some pictures of the lilium plant m + d bought for me while they were here - i promised i'd take some photos so here they are - it was truly beautiful when it flowered and i was sad to see it finish! and now to figure out how to look after it so it does the same again next year! x

birthday BOY

hip hip h o o r a y!

today our eamon turns ONE!

i can hardly believe that a year has passed since little e was born!

in those early days the big 12 month milestone seemed like an eternity away - and now here we are standing (tall + very, very proud) at the doorstep of the second year of eamon's life with the memories of the first gigantic year a leaving a colourful trail behind us.

today fills me with much happy emotion - having eamon in our lives has helped us to love, laugh, and smile like we never have before. life with our little boy means so much! and we are also so excited to be able to share his day with the special people in his life (including his nan and pop!).

at the same time i'm a wee bit sentimental at how terribly fast this year has gone and how crazily fast eamon is growing into a real toddler. where has my little baby gone? i'm sure all parents can commiserate with me on that point!

"but is he walking yet?" (i hear you all asking!)
no, not interested in walking - he spends so much of his time growing teeth, talking and being cheeky he has no time left for walking practice!...and hates being encouraged to walk. a few character traits evident there! i've been enlightened to the fact that neither myself nor any of my siblings were walking at 12 months (more like 16 months!) so don't hold your breath :)

the picture at the top of this post is of the dutch banner ("hooray" in dutch) aimee sent, us all the way from holland...what a find!

on saturday we celebrated eamon's birthday with a little sailboat themed party. everything turned out just lovely (more pictures soon) and eamon was a perfect little birthday boy :)

love you lots little darling xx