Zoo Trip

Walking the pier

Well our holiday continues yesterday we went to Dun laoghaire (pronounced dun leary) to walk the pier and show Rory the boats. It was a bit cold at the sea but we all wrapped up warm and it was much warmer away from the water. I took a photo of Brad and Rory which I really like. Brad will post the zoo video later but I forgot to mention Rory loved feeding the goats at the farm which we got on camera. Brad might post this video instead.

Rory's zoo trip!

Brad and I are on holidays this week! It's great to be off together for more than a day. We were busy monday sorting out the house, getting rid of old clothes and boxing up Rory's baby things. Today though we decided to take Rory to the zoo. The weather was bright but cold so Rory was all bundled up. He wanted out of his buggy most of the time and was interested in lots of the animals. He liked the sealions and the penguins the elephants and the lions but he paid attention to anything that moved. Check out the video of Rory watching the elephants that Brad will post, he is very serious watching them and looses interest easily but he was fascinated when he first saw them. It was a great day for us all and Rory was full of smiles before he fell asleep on the way home.

Rory has mastered the art of turning his walker as he demonstrates by chasing me in this video.

Talking

Well on Monday Rory started talking. His first word was "dada" and now he is saying dadadadadada over and over again! We are delighted he's starting to communicate but as Brad has pointed out he still hasn't worked out that dada means Brad!

Rory at the beach

Well its been a while since the last post and lots has happened. I had a wonderful birthday with lots of cards and presents. I also finished my patchwork playmat for Rory with help from Niamh and her mum Tina. Rory has been coming on in leaps and bounds. He has been getting around by commando crawling (wriggling along on his tummy) until last Friday when he got up on his hands and knees and crawled across the floor much to our delight! Now we really cant slow him down! He is starting to pull himself up on furniture now too!!
We have been watching the Olympics and cheering on every country he seemed to like the swimming a lot. This is no surprise as he loves his bath and his paddling pool. So yesterday we took him to the beach for a paddle in the sea! Brad, Rory and I went along with my mam, dad and uncle Mairtin. We had a lovely day sun was shinning the beach was beautiful and Rory loved the sand! The cold sea he was not so sure about but you can see from the photo he got used to it and started enjoying it. So we may have a swimmer on our hands!!