Florence

Florence (or Firenze, Florentina and Fiorenza) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, and of the province of Florence. (Wikipedia)


This perfect example of gorgeousness is my new baby niece, Florence. She was born last week, on 9th July, and she is just perfect! I went to see her for the second time today and got to have a really long cuddle with her. I do feel sorry for Lyla though, it must be strange for her because at least with older children you can explain that a baby is coming and get them prepared, but with Lyla, her mum just went away for a couple of days, and now there's this new baby in the room that everyone is cooing over and wanting to cuddle! So I made sure that I went straight to Lyla when I went into the room, because I don't want her to think that I don't love her anymore! Florence was a much bigger baby than Lyla, and she is completely different in lots of ways, but they are both wonderfully gorgeous and I hope that they will grow up to be best of friends! I am glad for them that they have brothers and a sister each, and it's nice that Lyla and Flo will be so close in age!


It was Sarah's birthday party in the pub last night, and Abbie and I did some karaoke again - this time a song from High School Musical. It was truly awful! For some reason Abbie wanted to do it as a duet, instead of just singing it together, which meant that of course I was singing bits on my own! Which is a disaster, as anyone who has ever heard me sing will testify! In the end we just starting singing together, and it wasn't too bad!


I am reading a really good book at the moment, called Thanks for the Memories, by Cecilia Ahern. It's very good and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes chick lit with a bit of a twist! I can see it being made into a film, because it's so good! It would nice if they set it in Ireland if they do make it, but I can't see it happening!