Birthday, rolls and letters

Aidan had a lovely birthday on Wednesday. He had some wonderful presents, had a special birthday fish and chip lunch with friends and a small family dinner (complete with an icecream birthday cake, just like big sister had). His friends party is on Saturday.

Orla has started to clap her hands together. She is a real roly-poly girl at the moment. She is at the stage where she is starting to be mobile as a consequence of multiple rolls - nothing on the floor is absolutely safe any more! Our saving grace is that her rolls do not yet have a particular purpose or focus - she doesn't really seem to realise that it is her own self that is causing her to move from A to B, that she can choose direction or have a specific goal in mind.

Isabelle is a bit tired at the moment. I think she's fighting a cold, and it is likely that the new school thing is a factor too. Her writing is developing before my eyes and she seems to be enjoying reading.