St Patrick's Day & Easter holidays :)

It's been a brilliant few weeks.  Busy but good.  Just simple ordinary things like outings with my girls, cuddles, playing and best of all it was time to start heading up to Donegal again to my parent's mobile home.  So that's were we headed for St. Patrick's weekend! The mobile home is in a caravan holiday park, which has a playground, and a place called Little Rocker's which is a huge play area for 0-4 year olds and they run activities for the kids too.  Caitlin adores it.  It's right by the beach too.  Unfortunately it was far too cold to actually go to the beach but when I go down to the mobile home I just feel so relaxed, and Caitlin is too.

St Patricks Day is of course a big occasion here in Ireland and we sure had fun celebrating it!

This was Aoife's first St, Patricks Day and to a 4month old it was just like any other day.  As long as she got her milk and her naps she was fine!

 Caitlin loved the parade.  She thought it was great, sitting up on her Daddy's shoulders,

She was amazed at the dinosaur display,

And enjoyed waving her country's flag :) :)

She was only back at school a few days before she got off for her Easter break - 2 whole weeks with both the kids at home, I didn't know how I was going to do it! Aoife likes to be held and given attention pretty much every minute of the day except when she's napping, and when she naps I did my cleaning or if it was the afternoon spent time with Caitlin.  So I worried about how I would keep Caitlin and Aoife happy all day long.  It hasn't been as bad as I thought.  It's been nice having Caitlin at home all day!  We've done lots of trips out... to soft play, to w5,

Quite a few trips to the park,

Of course a trip to the farm had to be squeezed in, (no pics of it though!)

And lots & lots of playdates!

As always Easter weekend, like St. Patrick's weekend was spent up in Donegal with the family.  The girls enjoyed their Easter Eggs & the Easter Egg Hunt,

The annual photo with the Tricolour. (My mum and dad fly it over Easter to remember Ireland's dead). Caitlin's didn't like doing it this year, Aoife thought it was funny!

More Easter pics,

(What kid doesn't like to play with pots, even in the bath!) lol

One of our many visits to little Rocker's!

It was a lovely break, nothing quite beats family time!

The cherry on the cake is that Caitlin's walking is coming along great.  She hasn't used her walker around the house in a couple of weeks.  She crawls if she gets tired, sometimes holds my hand but more and more she is walking by herself and is working on walking with her hands by her sides rather than the hands flying all over the place while she walks, trying to balance herself.  She's trying really hard and it's really wonderful to see her growing in confidence with her walking.  It's hard to believe it's only been just over a month since her last operation, she's bounced back so well as always, she's just my little gem :)