Showing posts with label Aoife stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aoife stories. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Glamour Girl
I decided to take a few professional style photos seeing as our poor little second child isn't even up on our wall yet!
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Pop Quiz and Other Stuff
Pop Quiz: Can you understand Euey-speak?
Every day since we went to visit George, Phil, Anna and Charlie at the farm Euey has told me the following: Anna ... ra ra ... bop ... bwork ... egg ... duck nuuum ... wawa ... Jeh ca-ca.
Ie. We saw Anna and some big dogs and a small dog called Bob and some chickens and we collected eggs and fed the ducks and jumped in puddles and we went in Gen's car.
Today for lunch we had coh with buh-gee and for brekkie we had tode with pee-gut buh-gee and geese and vege.
Ie. for lunch we had corn with butter and for brekkie we had toast with peanut butter, cheese and vegemite (not all on the one piece of toast!).
Every day since we went to visit George, Phil, Anna and Charlie at the farm Euey has told me the following: Anna ... ra ra ... bop ... bwork ... egg ... duck nuuum ... wawa ... Jeh ca-ca.
Ie. We saw Anna and some big dogs and a small dog called Bob and some chickens and we collected eggs and fed the ducks and jumped in puddles and we went in Gen's car.
Today for lunch we had coh with buh-gee and for brekkie we had tode with pee-gut buh-gee and geese and vege.
Ie. for lunch we had corn with butter and for brekkie we had toast with peanut butter, cheese and vegemite (not all on the one piece of toast!).
When I change his nappy he asks for pow-gee, at dinner time he often asks for sow-gu and when we put him to bed he says nigh-night and lo-loo.
That would be powder, sausage, night-night and love you respectively.
That would be powder, sausage, night-night and love you respectively.
Other Stuff
Aoife is 3 months old today. She giggles and
spends most of her waking hours grinning her face off. She has just learnt to suck her thumb which is a blessing as she self-soothes. She still loves her brother to death and the sounds she makes often mirror his! She is much much more vocal than Euey was but less physical. By this stage Euey wouldn't sit on our laps, only stand, Aoife sits (although wriggles) and stares into our eyes chatting incessantly. She puts herself to sleep mostly and has slept through the night every night (except 2) for over two weeks now. In short she is still behaving like a dream baby.
Aoife is 3 months old today. She giggles and
spends most of her waking hours grinning her face off. She has just learnt to suck her thumb which is a blessing as she self-soothes. She still loves her brother to death and the sounds she makes often mirror his! She is much much more vocal than Euey was but less physical. By this stage Euey wouldn't sit on our laps, only stand, Aoife sits (although wriggles) and stares into our eyes chatting incessantly. She puts herself to sleep mostly and has slept through the night every night (except 2) for over two weeks now. In short she is still behaving like a dream baby.Euey turned 22 months last Saturday. He is a madman and he loves jumping.
He climbs onto the furniture and jumps off. When I take him outside or to the shops he jumps off all the gutters and climbs any steps he sees just so he can jump down. He chatters away all day, mostly in words, sometimes in nonsense. He has just begun to pair words (Gnuck Dada = Dad's truck, Bup mall = Small bus aka van) and the flavour of the month at the moment is mall. Everything that could conceivably be smaller than something else is pronounced to be mall and his favourite is mall mon-nee - 5c pieces that he puts into his footy bank.His activities are changing as he gets older. He now colours and draws (same thing really in his book, just hold a random pencil and move it around the page) and loves to glue. Or rather, loves to put glue all over whatever is in front of him, but doesn't really care if any of the pictures I lovingly cut out of magazines are then placed on top of the glue.
He still loves his sister to death - really, those Euey-hugs could one day really harm her! The other day I left her in the bouncer and went into the kitchen to get Euey a cup of water. When I came back out she was lying on the ground and Euey was tickling her tummy. I have no idea how he managed to pick her up and put her down without hurting her, but I guess all that trying to be gentle paid off. Sometimes he gets a 
little jealous and wants to do whatever she is doing (eg lying down right beside her on her blanket) but he also wants to share what he's doing with her and often gives her presents of his toys. He holds things out to her, tells her ta then tries to put it in her hand. At first he used to get annoyed at her when she didn't accept his gifts, now he just leaves them on her tummy and takes them back when he wants them later.
little jealous and wants to do whatever she is doing (eg lying down right beside her on her blanket) but he also wants to share what he's doing with her and often gives her presents of his toys. He holds things out to her, tells her ta then tries to put it in her hand. At first he used to get annoyed at her when she didn't accept his gifts, now he just leaves them on her tummy and takes them back when he wants them later.The latest news: tonight he went to sleep in his big bed for the first time. He is there right now, my humungous boy in his ginormous bed. Wow!
Saturday, 3 February 2007
Aoife, Adie or Dot?
Now I know we've driven everyone mad with the names for our little girl, so I just thought I'd share the reasons why.
1. We have always loved Aoife, since before Euey was born.
2. We came across Adie in a series of fantasy novels we both read (she's a blind old witch, but a nice one) and we loved it as well.
3. We couldn't find any name that we liked that could be a more formal version of Adie, and she could never be Dame Adie could she?
So the ultimate conclusion was to give her Aoife legally and nickname her Adie. We call her both, with the occasional Dot thrown in. It's funny how Bean never suited Euey once he was born, but Dot just flows off the tongue naturally for Aoife.
1. We have always loved Aoife, since before Euey was born.
2. We came across Adie in a series of fantasy novels we both read (she's a blind old witch, but a nice one) and we loved it as well.
3. We couldn't find any name that we liked that could be a more formal version of Adie, and she could never be Dame Adie could she?
So the ultimate conclusion was to give her Aoife legally and nickname her Adie. We call her both, with the occasional Dot thrown in. It's funny how Bean never suited Euey once he was born, but Dot just flows off the tongue naturally for Aoife.
Friday, 26 January 2007
Thursday, 25 January 2007
Aoife is pronounced Ee-fa!
The night before.
Why won't they let me watch what's going on??? Ahhh, the anticipation is killing me!!
The first glimpse.
Here she is.
You little beauty!
Proud Daddy of a little girl.
Oh, wow, I love her.
Me too, my little sister rocks!
Hey Georgie, check out what we've got.Awsome, but right now I'm eating!
She's all mine.
Yep, that was hard work, time for a nap.
My Little China Doll.
Mum of two finally.
MC Baby.
The blanket stole my baby.
Going home outfit - Booties courtesy of Amelia's Mum!
And bub makes four (sorry Bubble, five).
Dad squeezing a blackhead.
At home.Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Dear Dot
Dear Dot,
You can come out now. I know you want to. It can't be comfortable for you in there, otherwise why would you persist in doing the YMCA and split jumps on my bladder? Maybe that's your idea of fun, but at the moment my idea of fun is lying on my back with a guy cutting open my stomach in an air conditioned room. 3 days, that's all. Actually, 2 days and 18 hours, give or take a few minutes.
Strange that, knowing exactly when you'll arrive. We could write your birthday in the birthday book already. I watched Mum write 'Dot due, 1:30pm' in her diary the other day - that was weird. With your brother we knew he would be induced on the 14th of June (his due date), but after the first induction failed we didn't really lend much faith to that method. This is different, come Friday they will cut you out no matter what.
We still have no name. Well, that's not true, we have one; Aoife (pronounced 'ee-fa').
According to http://www.babynamesofireland.com/ it means "beautiful, radiant, joyful."
Known as the greatest woman warrior in the world, Aoife was the mother of Cuchulainn's only son, Connlach. Aoife Dearg ("Red Aoife") was a daughter of a king of Connacht who had her marriage arranged by St. Patrick himself.
We have loved the name since before Euey was born. The only drawback is that it's taken us this long to learn how to spell it - so how long will it take you? I'm sure you'll be clever enough to get the hang of it.
The real problem is: what if you don't LOOK like an Aoife? So, we need a list. But we can't find the baby name book we used when Euey didn't look like a Jack or any other name we picked. Maybe we'll download some stuff from the net. But really Dot, as disorganised as we sound, we actually have everything else completely ready for you, I promise.
Love Mum
You can come out now. I know you want to. It can't be comfortable for you in there, otherwise why would you persist in doing the YMCA and split jumps on my bladder? Maybe that's your idea of fun, but at the moment my idea of fun is lying on my back with a guy cutting open my stomach in an air conditioned room. 3 days, that's all. Actually, 2 days and 18 hours, give or take a few minutes.
Strange that, knowing exactly when you'll arrive. We could write your birthday in the birthday book already. I watched Mum write 'Dot due, 1:30pm' in her diary the other day - that was weird. With your brother we knew he would be induced on the 14th of June (his due date), but after the first induction failed we didn't really lend much faith to that method. This is different, come Friday they will cut you out no matter what.
We still have no name. Well, that's not true, we have one; Aoife (pronounced 'ee-fa').
According to http://www.babynamesofireland.com/ it means "beautiful, radiant, joyful."
Known as the greatest woman warrior in the world, Aoife was the mother of Cuchulainn's only son, Connlach. Aoife Dearg ("Red Aoife") was a daughter of a king of Connacht who had her marriage arranged by St. Patrick himself.
We have loved the name since before Euey was born. The only drawback is that it's taken us this long to learn how to spell it - so how long will it take you? I'm sure you'll be clever enough to get the hang of it.
The real problem is: what if you don't LOOK like an Aoife? So, we need a list. But we can't find the baby name book we used when Euey didn't look like a Jack or any other name we picked. Maybe we'll download some stuff from the net. But really Dot, as disorganised as we sound, we actually have everything else completely ready for you, I promise.
Love Mum
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