first birthday

Yes, I'm One Year Old Today!

!!!

Yes, I'm going to blow out a candle (with some help from my brothers) and eat birthday cake!

!!!

And, yes, I'm the cutest thing you have EVER seen!

:)

paddy's day

a taste of St. Patrick's Day in Dublin!

dublin zoo

OK. Anyone who's followed this blog from the beginning has seen lots of zoo photos!

I bet you thought that since we moved to Dublin and no longer live a five minute walk from the zoo like we did in Barcelona, you'd be seeing less zoo pics! Well, you were wrong :)

We have joined Dublin zoo now and, although we live further away, we still plan to go often! Here are some pics from our first visit...

Dublin zoo is located in Phoenix Park close to the city centre. To get there, we drive through town, along the quays... and past Heuston station to the park...

... and the Four Courts, around past Heuston station to the park...

The boys were eager to get to the zoo...

I had heard that Dublin zoo had changed a lot since we were kids and it's true. The place is much bigger now -with the huge new African Plains area around the lake- the animals have much more space and better landscapes and it's much better all round.

Vegetation in bloom and spring in the air...

garden time

I have no idea why my big brothers are always hiding inside that green thingy-magig in the garden.

Who knows what they're doing in there?

Riding on some sort of spaceship, according to him!

Let's see if I can figure out a way to get inside...

If I can catch it, can I keep it? Please? You guys are always taking everything on me!!!

See? They did it again!
Hmmm. I think I'll just go and do my own thing.

Better be careful not to fall off. Thanks Mummy. We don't want me getting another one of those bruises, now do we? ;)

Alright I'll just rock away here for a while on my green crocodile :)

Those two big brothers can do their own thing

...whatever it is

Hey! Watch out! Is that some alien life form trying to get into our garden? No! It's green-finger Granddad who's been weeding and cutting the grass next door :)

visit from mallorca!

Back in March our friends María and Miquel came to visit us from Mallorca!


We've know María for years now, through Saoia, who's known her since they were kids growing up in Donosti. Although María's been living in Mallorca for years, we've seen each other regularly over the years in either Barcelona, Donosti or Bilbao :)


She took this really sweet photo of these two blue-eyed boy-os!

Sharing breakfast one morning...

Who said anything about sharing? I'm sorry but on those special days when I get to have "chocolate toast", sharing is not high on my priorities, if you know what I mean ;)

We went for a walk on Killiney hill with M&M too :)

The view of the bay is always nice to see...

Lorcan was happy on Miquel's knee (and Liam on Daddy's!)

And Malachy got flung around for fun with María :)

M&M brought us some great goodies from Mallorca, including typical sobrassada, tomatoes and eggs from Miquel's father's place and a yummy herbal liqueur. They even cooked for us :)

mmmmm
Miquel busy in the kitchen

... and fooling around with the pyjama boys!

They played hide and seek. Malachy very cleverly climbed into the buggy in the hall and hid behind the coats on the hangers. Too cute.

Liam giggling and running for his life!

boys on the street

María greeting some Irish sheep :)

And, yes, their visit was a good excuse to head back up to Johnnie Fox's.

This time we left Liam and Malachy with Granny and Granddad and went with just Lorcan and M&M.

Musing the menu

Before we stuffed ourselves :)

mmmmm..... stuffing ourselves :)