Yesterday Frunty and I made rice pudding together and I will include a picture once I download it. We had fun and I decided to use the rice cooker. I measured the ingredients and Frunty put them into the rice cooker. Then he stirred everything, a little roughly at first and some of the milk flew onto his chin. You'll see it in the photo so stay tuned!

At one point, a bit of the milk bubbled onto the counter but oh well. While it was cooking J&J came over and when it was done, we all had some before setting out for the park.



We had a fun time at our Luxembourg farmstay this past four day weekend. It was a sheep farm and Frunty got to feed a baby lamb with a big milk bottle. We did quite a bit of hiking as there were a lot of trails near the farm. When Frunty hikes it means running along the trails and boy can he run for a long time. Sometimes he needs breaks by sitting in the carrier and he has fun doing the "claw" to Daddy, pulling off his hat, tugging on his ears etc. We also went to the Villeroy and Boch outlet shop and bought a cake plate for a gift. We have another long weekend coming up and will look for another "rural gite".

First of all, a huge thanks to the Daddy for writing in our blog while we stayed in Ireland. We had a wonderful trip and the highlights included: super-friendly people, good food, beautiful scenery and best of all, NO SMOKING EVERYWHERE. Actually, the best part was watching Frunty and his grandparents have fun together! Frunty wanted to hug Grandpa every morning. His first word usually was "Grandpa". We got home on Saturday to find the other set of grandparents already in Brussels! How fun! Today they took off to Spain for a few weeks but will be back for more fun. So Frunty and I spent the day with J&J and enjoyed catching up with them. So sunny and warm too. We walked to the mall and back through the park! then Daddy met us with Mowgli and we all walked home together. Bath time, gotta go!

A taxi came early at 7:30 am to take the Daddy to the airport today. The Daddy had to go back to work. The weather was extremely stormy with sheets of rain and strong winds. Luckily, the flight was on time with no delays. Now, the Daddy is back at home while the rest of the crew enjoy Ireland for another 10 days. In the meantime, the Daddy has time to work on some projects around the house. Here's a video showing the Baby and the Dog spending time together. (This video requires a broadband connection since the file is 4.5MB large. You might also need Windows Media Player to view it. If the media player doesn't start immediately, then try downloading the file first, then opening the file.)

We had another relaxing morning in our courtyard cottage and then headed out by car again to the Dingle Peninsula to explore Inch Beach. We took a slightly different road than before and ended up on a very narrow single lane way country road. It was very exciting just getting to the beach. Inch Beach is incredibly large, wide and flat. We were able to drive right on the beach and go a long, long way from the road. The Baby is able to say very clearly "shells" and everytime he saw a shell on the beach we would shout out with plenty exuberence. There wasn't much else at the beach except the beach, so we headed to Dingle town for lunch at Murphy's. After lunch, we drove a short way from Dingle to visit the Beehive huts, stone dwellings dating from 6000 BC. It was very impressive and even more so was the scenery with steep cliffs, green hills and rough ocean. The wind and weather made us all very cold and dreamy for our cozy accomodation and tasty dinner.

After a leisurely breakfast, we drove to the Dingle Peninsula. We stopped at one point to enjoy a large beach where we had a chance to get our feet wet.







The baby had a ball running around and giggling while splashing in the shallow water. Despite the wind, it felt somewhat warm to be barefoot on the beach. The baby had fun digging in the sand too.







The scenary is very beautiful on the Dingle peninsula. The hills are about 800 to 900 m. above the sealevel. We left the beach to continue our way to Dingle town for lunch. The best road to Dingle was via the Connor Pass where we stopped to enjoy a short hike to a nice viewpoint. The baby was very keen to hike and run the whole way up.







Eventually, we made it to Dingle town and had fun walking along the docks of this fishing village. We had lunch at Murphy's Pub and all of us enjoyed nice seafood dishes. It was a full day and so we headed back to our cottage about an hour drive away.

We got up early this morning to get to the airport with lots of time to spare before our flight to Ireland. I went to find parking and was lucky to find a new place that was free! Then we got our boarding passes and made our way through the scrum to get on board. It was total chaos with people pushing and shoving because there's no pre-assigned seating. The flight was 1.5 hours and the baby was good the whole time. When we arrived, the grandparents were waiting outside and we left the baby with them. He clearly remembered who they were and was happy to see them and so he was not scared or anxious at being left with them while we waited inside the arrival hall for our luggage.







After we got our luggage, we loaded up in the rental car and grandpa drove us to the cottage we booked for one week. The drive was eventful since as we passed through Limirick, Adare, and several other quaint little Irish villages. We found our cottage on the Internet at www.countykerryholidays.com and it turned to be truly very nice. With a full kitchen, we were able to have breakfast and dinner in-house. The first night, the mommy and the daddy went into the town of Tralee for dinner for Italian pasta at Bella Bia while the grandparents had an early night. The baby is very good at saying "pasta" whenever he is hungry for dinner.