Christmas is here! - Tá an Nollaig anseo!
Here are some photos of Ciara opening her few hundred presents! The first ones are with our friends Holly and Jeremy (she loves the My Little Pony) and the rest are from this morning. She loves her new Cabbage Patch Kid, "Da Baby!". She has been pushing it around all morning with her purse in her hand. When she gets a little tired she sits down in her new chair to feed "Da Baby". She got lots of presents from Santa and her family. Heather got Music, Candy, Digital Picture Frame, and new n.a.p. slippers. Stephen got a paintball gun and lots of candy!!
Hope everybody has a Merry Christmas! Love you all!
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Catching Up!
I have a new job at Christopher Newport University in Newport News Virginia. Both Heather and I work there now, so we get to ride to work together. Daniel and Chasity are coming up here in late December and Mam and Dad are coming over from Ireland New Year's Eve - we're so excited about that.
Ciara is running around the house these days. The words that she has some grasp of are: More!, Daddy, Mamma, doggy, da Baby!, Ball (baw), Show (goo), light (lie), Night Night (nie nie), Bye, Yeah, Uh Oh, Oh No (no no), Tree, Kitty (itty), Down, Get Down, Hot (ha), Fish (geesh), Thank you (tid-too, sometimes tid-yoo), diaper (giper), Pooh (as in Winnie the), Book (boo), boo (as in peek-a-), jump (um!), Banana (nana), vroom vroom (rum rum).
Right now she has bronchitis, so she's not feeling the best. It should clear up early next week with the medication she's on.
All the craziness of the last few months has died down, so I'm going to try and get back into the swing of the blog. The last few posts I did tonight are an attempt to catch up on all the photos since we were in Ireland last. Enjoy them and don't forget to click on the photo to go to the full gallery!
New York, New York - Nua-Eabhrac
We went with Angela to New York for Heather's birthday (Nov 4). It was a lot of fun and it was great to see Ciara old enough to take in some of the sights herself. She truly was amazed at the top of the GE building at Rockafellar Plaza. You'll see how she helped herself to some of our snacks.
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1st Birthday August 16 2007
Ciaras 1st Birthday was at our friends Holly and Jeremy's house. Some of you have met them, there's a picture of the pair in the gallery. The theme was Care Bears, seen as Ciara-Bear tends to be Ciara's most used nickname. We all had a blast and Heather made a Care Bear cake that Ciara made short work of.
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August - October - Lúnasa - Deireadh Fómhair
Ok, lots in this one. One of her in a Virginia Tech jersey, asleep. Some of her with Grandaddy Barney and her new baby cousin Keegan. There's one of Keegan with his mommy and daddy, Shawn and Krista. Some cute bath time pictures. Some pictures of us at the Living Museum in Newport News. One of myself and Heather enjoying a sunset over the Shenandoah on a camping trip. Some of our pumpkins, before and after we tried our hand at carving them.
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Water Country July
This was Ciara's first trip to Water Country in Williamsburg, where her Aunty Angela works.
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June Ireland Trip
Here are pictures of our June trip to Ireland. It was great for everyone to finally meet Ciara. Family means so much to us and we can't wait to get back over again. When we were in Ireland Ciara was just learning to stand.
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