Half Pint Pixie

Our little holiday to Dublin was great, littlepixie had an amazing time. NaBloPoMo completely took my ability to create coherent posts away so I’ll do bullet points to summarise for now, and follow up with some pictures tomorrow…

The Taitasi was unbelievably comfortable, we did both front & back carries, some days littlepixie was carried for about three or four hours and napped cosily all snuggled up in it.

The MaM cover is worth its weight in gold, it was extremely cold in Dublin with a biting cold breeze but littlepixie was all warm with just her regular clothes (vest, top, fleecy trousers & fleecy jacket), no need for a snow suit or bulky jacket. The hat is excellent too, it completely covers all around her neck. I’ll post an action shot soon…

Dundrum centre pleased us greatly, Yo Sushi has opened there, with a conveyor belt of goodies, plenty of veggie options, bringing back delicious memories of our love of Sushi King in Malaysia. We rolled out of there full of kappa maki and inari.

Another plus for the Dundrum centre, it has (finally) opened a really nice feeding room, with three armchairs, big flopsy cushions, lovely animal murals on the walls and a little play table for bigger kids. The large, unsmelly changing room was completely separate too.

You can feed anywhere you want in Ireland, but sometimes overstimulated littlepixies benefit from a little break with some classical music in a lovely peaceful room away from the crazy Christmas shoppers. Here’s a pic of the feeding room…

Wagamama, wagamama…. yum, yum, yum! We only have two in Ireland, one in Cork & one in Dublin, so it was first on our list of things to do. Mr HalfPintPixie often jokes that they sponsored my pregnancy as he used to be inundated with takeaway requests!

Went to see The Golden Compass, I really enjoyed it. It’s a great, race-along ride of a movie. The world was beautifully realised, I loved the airships and Oxford. Have a look at the movie’s website, you can have a bit of fun meeting your own daemon! Mine’s a mouse

I’m looking forward to seeing the sequels, as I really enjoyed His Dark Materials. It’ll be interesting to see how they treat some of the more controversial elements of the story in the later movies!

On an aside, it’s really annoying that they’ve re-released the book in Ireland as The Golden Compass, I muchly prefer the original title, The Northern Lights, it’s much more evocative.

The Christmas lights on Grafton Street are beautiful, will post photo soon too…

That’s all for now, I must go and catch up on a week’s work of emails and other people’s blog posts, wish me luck!