sixtwentyone

You can't see it, but I have a tooth!!

I have a tooth!! As of today, my first tooth… finally, came through. After weeks of feeling it, it’s broken the surface.

And it came though on the day that my great grandfather – on my daddy’s side – would have been 100 years old, which is quite cool!

We were in Pascal’s cafe in town – Patisserie de Pascal – having lunch to celebrate daddy’s latest work, when the tooth was discovered. Now I’ve to work on my smile so I can show it off to the world.

My new favourite toys are two plastic spoons that mummy and daddy sometimes use to feed me with.

Forget the expensive, shiny toys that people have spent years designing…!

Me and Seoirse at the launch

Today my mummy helped to launch the Inishowen Rural Arts Network. The launch was held in Patisserie de Pascal with an exhibition of lots of artwork, music, poetry and some of Pascal’s lovely food.

This is a photo of me with Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh – a musician and artist who was at the launch.

And I can’t leave today without a shameless plug for my mummy’s website – sineadsmyth.net

Finding Easter eggs

On Easter Saturday (because we’d arranged it specially with the Easter Bunny) we spent the morning hunting for chocolate eggs in the garden.

It was warm a couple of weeks ago, well spring had returned and it was cold again, so we wrapped up and followed signs outside that helped us find the eggs – the Easter Bunny was helpful.

Both Kate and Darragh were egg-cited and our haul was impressive, although I’m told I’m too young to enjoy the eggs beyond finding them!

One cat wondering why the other cat smells so bad

We live amongst farmland, with sheep and cows in the fields near our house. Our pure white cat, Snowdrop, loves to venture across the fields and into the neighbouring barns.

Today, we were wondering why the smell of slurry was so strong. We put it down to the muck being spread on the fields and the wind blowing the smell towards the house.

It wasn’t until we found Snowdrop, that we realised she’d brought the smell into the house!

We don’t know how it happened, but she was covered in slurry, absolutely covered from head to toe.

Pulling funny faces

I’ve been practising pulling faces this past week. It’s amazing what you can do with your tongue too – I never realised it was so much fun!

And the more I exercise, the more I can do.

Daddy keeps pointing the camera at me and I can’t help but show off a little now when he does…

Poppy

Our lovely wee dog Poppy died last night. She was two. Here’s some pictures from her short life.

She’ll be missed by us all as she was one of us – a companion, a protector and a friend.

We don’t know what it was that took her away from us. She’d been ill on and off since Christmas, but, each time, seemed to recover. The most recent photographs here were taken on St. Patrick’s Day, when she seemed full of the joys of spring.

She took ill again on Friday last and, despite going backwards and forward to the vets, she gave up late last night. We all had the chance to say goodbye to her and now her body lies buried in our garden.

Her spirit is running around the beach at Lagg!

Me in the sunshine

The weather has been lovely recently and it’s been feeling like spring. Far too warm, far too early, but it doesn’t stop everyone from getting out into the sunshine and enjoying themselves – just too early to be busy in the garden!

I was even allowed out for a short time on the doorstep, but I had to be protected from the sun as my skin is very delicate – beats those vitamin D drops though any time!!

Daddy’s been cutting down trees even though they seem to be his favourite thing – not sure I understand that…

Hello kitty (Snowdrop)

Snowdrop is one of our cats. She’s deaf and completely white with one green eye and one blue eye. She’s a mouse catcher extraordinaire!

Kate, my sister, put a pink ribbon on Snowdrop when she was asleep one time, which made her look just like Hello Kitty – one of Kate’s favourites!

I went along with mum and dad to the final instalment of a project my mum had been working on.

She was the resident artist with Royal and Prior Comprehensive School for the Rivers of the World project.

It was a spectacular end, with the children setting fire to ‘Father Thames’, a figure that they’d made out of willow, straw and clay. Some picture taken by daddy below!