Gremlin’s Fireside Chat

I think my 4 year old daughter has a secret life because we were out driving this evening and my daughter notices that a police car behind us and says ‘Daddy the Police are following us!!! We have to loose them’ – I almost crashed the car with laughing so much.

Today was Maeve’s last day in the Giraffe creche in the IFSC Dublin. The creche let me state is excellent and I would recommend to anyone. Maeve has gone from a small 7 month old toddler to a confident, brash, smart and totally lovable 4.5 year old little lady under their tutorship who can count and can write her name. Tomorrow she starts the next phase of her life – primary school in Donabate and is something she has been excited about for months. It will mean of course a change in her moms and dads lives to cater for the school location and times (less time in school than was spent in the creche), but it should work out well for everyone concerned.

One big personal thing for me (and re-enforced by her new Passport arriving yesterday) is – where has the last four and a half years gone, and my how she has grown and matured!!!

Still love her and her mom to bits though.

I took this photo yesterday of my daughter in my home-office “relaxing” watching Spider-Man. Talk about cute….

Finding it hard to believe she is only Four years old and is starting school in September.

Got a shock last night. I handed my daughter my Asus Transformer tablet with a drawing app opened and she then proceeded to draw/write this with her finger:

My 4 year 3 month old daughter can write her name (and I found out later my name too) and the numbers. I was an am in awe at her. I am also really pleased with the teaching at the creche Maeve goes to in the IFSC in Dublin.

Maeve is still charming everyone she meets – “so cute” is the most comment I have heard; and her English is excellent and advanced. Her emotional development is progressing nicely in that she understands others emotions (even that they are sad) and empathizes with those who have lost someone or someone is insulted.

Our 4 year old daughter has qualified as a “Seal 2″ (or “Navy Seal” as I call her) and we are really proud of her.

Really impressed in how she is taken to swimming – although its more “familiarity” than swimming at the moment. Ireland has an appalling track record when we come to swimming, its not usually taught in school – I was lucky in that I was taught when I was 7 or so – and it is important to learn from both a safety and fun perspective. Both my wife and I qualified as PADI divers.