McAWilliams Photoblog

Its been a while since I put up any pictures of my little trouble maker, Rebecca. Well at 22 months, her personality is really shining through, she is a cheeky little madam, in a funny way not irritating way, active, and always happy. She is also really starting to talk now, which is great gas all together.

Anyhow since the weather was so good today the swing came out of the shed and got dusted down, not until after she spent 2 hours in the sand pit. She did look a ticket in her Dora Shades and hat though.

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How bad have I been, my first image for December. Well to be honest work is at its peak for me since I do sound for adverts and obviously christmas is an advertisers heaven.

Anyhow on to the picture in hand, over the weekend we put up our christmas tree and Rebecca tried to get involved at one point she even brought the fully decorated tree down but anyhow here she is in all her innocence showing of santa to one and all.

Update : I apologise for the lack of images for the month of December, my camera ran into all sorts of technical Difficulties and is getting repaired, please do come back soon and in the meantime merry christmas and a happy new year

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So there goes Halloween, here comes Christmas now in full flight.

I have to admit it was a much quieter Halloween then I have experienced over the last few years. Possibly because it was midweek or maybe because everybody had been firing off their fireworks for the past 2 weeks.

It was great though to be able to dress Rebecca up for the occasion, she was all dolled up as a little witch, with a cape that said “pretty pink witch” she really looked a treat.

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Back to Dublin Zoo, and this is one of the many play areas for kids scattered around the Zoo. This particular one is found at the new elephant enclosure and has 2 wonderfully carved wooden elephants for the kids to sit on.

I must also say that new huge elephant enclosure is fantastic. It is massive and obviously much better for the Dublin Zoo elephants but it also makes getting close up and personal with them a little more difficult.

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Lesson 4 from the Irish National heritage park brings us to some very early dwellings known as a crannog. A crannóg is an ancient artificial island or natural island in Ireland, used for a settlement. The name may also refer to a wooden platform erected on shallow lough floors, but understandably few remains of this sort have been found. The name crannóg derives from crannoge, from Middle Irish crannóc, from Old Irish, from crann, tree.

The choice of an island as a home is thought to have been for defence and for the availability of food in the form of fish nearby. The crannog could be reached from the nearest shore by means of a causeway built up with stones, or a wooden gangway built atop raised piles.

I have one or two more pictures to put up from this fantastic visitor attraction, but I shall try not to continue giving lessons and let you enjoy the pictures instead.

Oh by the way that is Paula and Rebecca exiting the crannog after going in for a snooze.

All the above historical facts taken from Wikipedia.

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Where has the past year gone, I remember this time last year I was putting the first picture of herself up.

Today Rebecca Williams hit the big 1, and I am so tired. We decided to have a party for her today and to be honest to all those parents out there who have done the first birthday party, how tiring an event is that, unfortunately for Rebecca she was quite unwell today so did not enjoy the party as much as she could have, but what a great day anyhow.

Next week I am on holidays and will be honest from Monday to Friday picture updates will not be happening, but since we are heading to wexford I should have a lot of shots to put up.

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Being a father is an amazing experience, the way you see your child learning all the time and also seeing traits of yourself in them is so weird.

But it does have its problems, the take over bid of toys.

They take over your house, they go all over the place, they can even hurt when you dont see them and trip over them.

So what did my brother, Rebeccas godfather, do…

He just went and bought her some more, in all honesty though Dave thanks a million really.

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