Memories of childhood

Last week one of my friends mentioned that she'd bought a CD because she noticed that this song was on it. And boy did it bring back some memories for me!

I had to go to youtube to listen to it again. I am sure all my sisters will recognise this tune. It reminds me of happy evenings as a child when Dad would pick up the guitar and entertain us all. He had a great repertoire of songs, some hilarious like Grandma's Feather Bed, or The Court of King Caractacus, or even I Know An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly! We used to jump up and down and beg him for our favourites.

But my favourite was this song 'The Streets of London', which I personally feel sounds much better when my Dad sings it. Just listening to it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, and reminds me of the safety of childhood when life was carefree and easy.

Grace chatter - 8 weeks

Happy Birthday to Daddy

Barney lights the candle's for Daddy's 37th birthday cake. Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Tummy time

Emily and Daddy

Daddy and his little baby girl, 16th January 09.

Emily at 5 weeks old

Aged 5 weeks old. Emily now weighs 8lb 12oz. Still less than her big brother was at birth.

Emily, age 3 days old, in hospital

A short video of Emily in hospital at 3 days old. You cant tell how teeny she was until you see my hand on her head. Cute. She's grown so much already. This is her at 7lb 80z.

A trip to the circus!

What a busy week we had last week! Lots of trips and adventures. I haven't had to time to blog about them all, so I will do it bit by bit.

Some friends of ours phoned to say that they had 5 tickets to see the Russian Circus performing at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. Unfortunately for them they were all unwell and couldn't go, so they offered us the tickets. We felt bad that they missed it, but it was great that we could use the tickets and they did not go to waste. So on Friday we headed to Belfast. Me, the kids and my sister H. Dan couldn't come as he was working so H gladly met us for the performance. It was very good. Jimmie and Annabelle really enjoyed it. Annabelle liked the clowns best, and Jimmie liked the acrobats. Barney talked the whole way through it, with a constant stream of questions... the first performance was a girl hanging from a great height on a long strip of fabric, turning, twirling, somersaulting. When there was a gap in the music and the whole theatre was quiet Barney piped up, at the top of his lungs "why can't I do that Mummy?" He's so cute. He had many questions... "how come that lady doesn't get hurt getting cut in half mummy?" etc.

Annabelle took a few videos of some of the performances on her camera, and I will load them onto youtube tomorrow. They are a bit noisy as her camera doesn't pick up such loud noises very well.

We felt bad about our friends children missing the performance so we bought them a little present from the souvenir shop. It was a lovely afternoon out. Thank you very much for thinking of us S and giving us your tickets.

To watch Video 1 click here

To watch Video 2 click here

To watch Video 3 click here

Click here to see a silly video of Daddy opening some birthday presents. He's just a big kid really. I was going to put the video on my blog properly but blogger wont let me at the moment. So if you want to see it you'll have to click to watch it on youtube.