Everyone met up at home in Ireland for Sophie’s party at the weekend. Sophie had a lot of fun with her friend Ciaran. They look a right pair. They spent the whole time running up and down in the garden and couldn’t be persuaded back in to the house. Baby Cian wasn’t quite up to the excitement but I’m sure he will be next year!
Definitely very happy cycling around – we headed off for what I thought would be a quick spin but she decided to go for coffee (ie. “cake”) in town so we went right into the town and stopped for food, and then back again. Thankfully I wasn’t required to carry both the bike and Sophie home.
Hope you enjoyed your birthday party with Cian, Helen and Marc, Owen, Mimi, Grandad, and your Mummy and Daddy!
Sophie was playing with the bike in the kitchen the night she got it and then disappeared into her room – crashing noise of lego and other toys being cast over her shoulder. I was envisaging Yoda in the swamp on Dagobah. Then she re-emerged with the red strap from her guitar. “To lock the bicycle” she said . Rough town obviously!
OK I know it’s sideways. Reminds me of Ronan videoing Fin’s wedding on Angela’s camcorder – we had to turn a portable telly on it’s side to watch it. Another archive video from I think August 2005. Sophie headbanging to Greenday on the radio. I kept turning it down and she kept turning it right back up again. Finally she bangs her head on the steering wheel and gets really annoyed. Not a huge Greenday fan myself (the whole neo-punk thing seems a little forced after 1979 although I like their politics), but Sophie has an eclectic taste shall we say!
Definitely a little girl – she loves “going shopping”, buying clothes, going for coffee, and doing all the above with a handbag clutched under her arm. Of course she has a plastic hippo bath toy in her handbag, which is not accepted at any of the major outlets as far as I’m aware. Adam
I originally posted a tiny video from the Nokia 7610 showing the first time she let go of the furniture and headed off by herself. Well I found this video from the Nikon about 20 minutes later which I can now present in it’s full glory, for the first time, directors cut. Having seen her starting to walk I trailed her every move with the camera that evening and caught her for the first time going to the middle of the floor and standing up unaided – you can see the look of achievement on her face.
Sophie will be three in a few weeks and I thought it might be nice to put up some older stuff for you to enjoy!
That’s a satellite dish cable she’s chewing on by the way!