October 2009

Niamh is doing so well! She is happily cruising furniture and has stood on her own for a few seconds at a time. She has even taken the odd step on her own, but is not yet walking independantly.

She has such a strong personality and is very happy. She is not talking yet but can say mumma, dadda and Bailey quite well. I think speech is something that will take a while to come for this little one. She loves playing with Bailey and Bailey loves her so much. He makes a creche for her in the playroom out of beanbags and toys and they read stories together and sometimes he even lets her play with his trains!

Niamhs health has been reasonable. She had bronchilitis last month but did really well and got over it pretty quickly. Last week she had gastro and she now has a rotten cold, but is happy all the time and still eats like a horse!!! Never leave food around as she will clear your plate!

Niamh loves to be tickled under the arms and will give a really cute giggle! Her voice makes lots of sing songy oohs and aahs and 'uh ohs' when she drops something!

August 2009

Wow, where has the year gone?! Its certainly been busy, lots of illness in the family seems to have taken up a lot of the time. Niamh was hospitalised in June overnight for bronchilitis again and has had it 3 times so far. She is currently fighting off a cold but is doing extremely well.

Here is a video I just took of her playing the piano. She is a real explorer, she cannot walk yet, but she can climb on chairs and up slides and loves sliding back down on her knees. She is a funny little girl, very happy with lots of personality. She has started to clap now and gives us kisses.

Beautiful Girl!

A lovely friend of mine took some photos of Niamh in the Botanic Gardens on Wednesday, they are amazing so I thought I would share:

Standing!

Niamh decided on Good Friday that she would stand up! There has been no stopping her since :) She isn't quite cruising furniture yet, but she did move her feet a bit last night. She stands up constantly now and is grabbing at everything! She is very proud of herself and shouts at us if we move things she wants out of the way!

Niamh has bronchiolitis yet again and we ended up taking her to hospital on Easter Saturday night at midnight. She was coughing and coughing and appeared not to be able to catch her breath. She improved a lot while we were there (of course) and we were home by 3am. They gave her some ventolin which didn't seem to do too much but little miss decided she wanted to go home so was smiling and very alert :) Thats my girl!

Choccy bunnies were on the menu for Easter Sunday and Niamh loved nibbling his ears.

Mumma!

Well Niamh has had a weekend of milestones. On Friday she said Mumma for the first time! I wasn't the only one to hear it too which was good!

Tonight Niamh stood up for the first time. We tried to catch it on video but she had done her piece and that was that! Bailey was in the bath and Niamh was desparately trying to see the bath toys, she is so cute and was very happy with herself.

A montage of Niamh's first year

Niamh's amazing first year

I have just put this together, it was so emotional looking at all those photos and reliving the feelings that I had at the time. Im really glad to have done it though and hope you like it :)

Play the music nice and loud and enjoy! Its 12 minutes long so make yourself a cuppa!!

The Class of 2008!

2008 Graduates!

Havent we done well! Its been a challenging year and there will be challenges ahead, but here we are, a year on all celebrating birthdays. It was fantastic to catch up with everyone at Bethany and Amelias first birthday. We had a great time ;)