Sleeping bunnies & Kill City Defectors

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:32 PM by lauranen

We arrived back to Kildare on Monday night, and I was busy working for the best part of the week. I've been translating material for a a big photography exhibition produced by the Jyväskylä Art Museum. I love working on interesting stuff like that and I can't wait to see the exhibition.

We went to the musical playgroup again on Wednesday morning, and Lukas still wasn't very interested in taking part in the musical play. He kept going to this one corner, and doing his little dancing moves and wriggles there. I think the other kids are distracting him from the music and the pace is a bit too fast for him. We've been singing and playing the Sleeping Bunnies -song at home, and he now knows the 'sleeping' and 'hopping' parts of the song, which I would call a major breakthrough. He has a musical cookie jar -toy that plays a tune, and when we sang the tune last night he went and got the cookie jar. He's such a sweetheart.

His favourite game at the moment is to get a big plastic bown from one of the kitchen cupboards, and a big ladle from the drawer, and play what looks like some sort of a cooking game. He dances every time he hears music, uses the ladles to do some 'gardening' on the pot plant in the kitchen, and he's getting incredibly fast in climbing the stairs - never unattended though.

We went to see the new place this afternoon again, and it's even lovelier now that it's nearly finished! The bedrooms are bigger than I remembered, there's a dishwasher (luxury!) and the floors turned out really nice: light marble effect tiles in kitchen and hall, cherry wood floors in the lounge and Hessian-type carpet upstairs. She's going to put a white leather suite in the lounge, and a white wooden table and chairs in the kitchen. We'll have 2 double beds with bedside lockers, and all the bedrooms have elegant built-in wardrobes and loads of storage. We're going to keep the decorating to minimum, but we're going out tomorrow morning to get at few bits and pieces foe the house, I can't wait!

It feels weird to spend the weekend in Kildare, it feels that we should be going to Spanish Point again. I have some photos from our recent trips to Clare on my own Flickr account, definitely worth checking out. I got a few nice shots of wild seas, cherry blossoms, foam on the rocks and whatnot.

Not much planned for this weekend, trying to get ourselves up to date with all the paperwork, changes of address and all that. I'm cooking a nice dinner tomorrow night - asparagus with hollandaise sauce for starters, and nice steaks and potatoes dauphinoise with garlic.

Actually, we might nip out tomorrow after the dinner to the local here to see the incredible (but yet very credible) Kill City Defectors, supported by Super Extra Bonus Party playing a fundraised gig in aid of Touch Ireland. We might even run into Nialler9 there as we discussed the gig on the blog awards night, and he confessed to be a fan of both bands.