That afternoon my old friend Rachel came over to our place with her kids: Jasmine, Dylan and Elliot.
Or should I say, Princess Jasmine! She was great with our baby Lorcan! 
And Dylan gave us his best rendition of "Scarborough Fair" on the keyboard!
And we topped the afternoon off with some dancing in the dining room! :) 
We missed Halloween when we were away in Barcelona. But we made up for lost time when we got back by having a lovely dinner party with Annette and Jens, a couple we have befriended through Liam! Their son Ciarán and him are classmates and friends.
And this is Liam's neighbour and 'girlfriend' Hannah! She's every bar of Liam (in female form) and gets great laughs out of him and Malachy...
This is her dad, Jeremy!
See what I mean about those smiles?!... The picture is a Halloween drawing that Hannah did for Liam -it's still hanging on our fridge door!
On our last day we had a nice meal at a Thai restaurant in the old city.
Lorcan napping peacefully... 
Squeaky clean after bathtime!
When we got home from our week in Barcelona, Liam and Malachy (with a little help from Granny) had made us a welcoming cake!
I had a ladies' night at Laia's with the gals. Left to right: Circe, me, Assumpta, Molly, Beatriz, Silvia, Laia and Clara. Great food, fun, gossip and laughs all round ;)
And Jaime had a lad's night with Jorge (check out the bleary-eyes!) 
I met up with MariCarmen and Marta briefly (sorry about the blurry pic!)
Barcelona in October...
At the beginning of October Jaime and I took Lorcan to Barcelona for his pre-op tests at the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu. 
Though we really missed Liam and Malachy, who stayed in Dublin with Granny and Granddad, it was nice to be on our own with Lorcan and back in busy Barcelona again for a few days.
Lorcan's tests all went well and he revelled in the warm Meditarranean clime and all the one-to-one attention!
We met up with Yasser, one of our Palestinean friends in Barcelona. Himself and his lovely Catalan wife recently started up a lovely little coffee shop on Gran Vía (at the Rocafort metro stop). We're delighted that it's going well for them.
Me and the cute necklace I bought here 
Summer girls Laia and Violeta
Jaime, Vanessa and the giggles :)
These shots were taken some time around the end of September when Lorcan was between 5 and 6 months old. As you all know, he has since then had his cleft lip operation and is recovering very, very well. His scar is healing well and he is looking more handsome than ever!
Literally 'hanging' out with mammy in the attick office!
Those sparkly blue eyes get me every time!
Lying around with my mammy and her camera!
Just look at that green grass!
There were some wild storms at the end of the summer. Many of the smaller, weaker trees in the park were damaged.
That's Teddy Mór (Irish for big) watching the boys play.
Jaime's old friend Jude came over to spend the day with us one Saturday back in September.
The lads had some great laughs together!
Later that evening Jacqui came over too and we had a lovely meal cooked by Jaime mmmmm! Jude and Jaime got into the swing of things and even gave us and impromtu salsa display!
We discovered long ago that our digital camera does not do particularly good quality pix. BUT in all honesty we don't care since it makes up for that by being completely unbreakable! So... everyone's allowed to use it! Liam loves doing little photo shoots every now and then. Malachy also loves getting his hands on the camera but all he tends to do is stick the lens in his own eye, aim the back of the camera at me and say "Say Cheese!".
This photo may not mean anything to YOU, but to ME this was a historical moment!! :)
OK, I know. It's a strange time of year to be posting beach pix... but my update backlog is soooo loooong that we have actually changed seasons twice!
