Beach Bums

The weather has been amazing lately and we are trying to take advantage of every minute of it. This past weekend we spent time with Eric's parents are their new beach house in Eastham. The beach is perfect for little kids because the tide goes out leaving shallow water and sandbars for the kids to run around in. Will was having the time of his life playing in the water and making new friends. At one point, Will managed to join in on a game of pickle with some people and was having a blast running back and forth with the rest of the kids. While we had a rough start with Jack and the water in Myrtle Beach, he loves it now. Here are some pictures from our day at the beach.....

7 Months

Gosh..I just realized it has been a while since my last post. I feel like the days are moving in fast forward especially because I can't believe Jack is already 7 months. I also can't believe it is already the end of June and we have been back in MA for almost a year! I think this is definitely one of the best ages right now. Jack has been growing like a weed this month and enjoying lots of new things. Here are a few highlights from the month.

- Jack is an EARLY riser just like his brother use to be. Most days he is up by 5am on the dot. Occasionally he sleeps in a little and gets up at 5:30 instead. :-) You would think I would be used to it by now but I don't think I will ever get used to getting up at 5am...that is just too darn early. We've tried the whole leaving him in his crib so that he learns that he can't get up that early. However, that usually backfires on us because then he wakes Will up and now instead of just having to deal with one at 5am, we have two of them ready and raring to go for the day. ugh...
- He does take 3 naps a day and is usually down for his first nap at 8am due to the fact that he up at the crack of dawn. I'm definitely not as strict with naps as I was with Will and he tends to take at least one of his naps in his car seat. I'm not quite sure what I am going to do once he moves out of the bucket seat into the big car seat.
- He is starting to become a mobile little bugger. He is not crawling yet but he rolls all over the place. He is very close to crawling and is able to do the backward crawl/slide. Any day now I expect that he is going to take off and our world will be forever changed.
- He is eating 3 meals a day still consisting of cereal and some sort of fruit or veggie. However, he definitely would prefer to eat whatever it is we are eating and usually stares longingly at our food. Here is a clip of him trying to take the pizza crust away from his friend who wasn't going to stand for that.....


-He loves to yell so he can hear his voice. Of course, he usually decides that he wants to be vocal when Will is sleeping and there is no stopping him once he gets started. The whole "shhhh..." thing is kind of lost on him. :-) He has this funny little growling sound he likes to make too which cracks me up.

I've really been slacking this month on taking pictures. Here are a few from the slim pickn's that I had to chose from.

Jane and Paul's Farm

I took the boys strawberry picking this afternoon at this cute little farm not too far from our house. I wasn't sure how long Will would last but he really seemed to enjoy walking through the fields. I picked the strawberries and Will walked behind me putting them in the container. However, every time I turned around, he had another strawberry in his mouth and he would freeze and start giggling because he knew he was eating everything that I picked! Of course I had to snap a few pictures before we left....

Mommy

Well, I am officially "mommy" as of today. I know that probably doesn't sound like that big of a deal since he has been saying my name for a while now. But up to this point, I have been "mama" and all of a sudden today he just started calling me mommy. It is so cute to hear him say mommy but at the same time it makes me a little sad because he is losing that last little bit of baby he was still holding on to. My little man is growing up.....

Name that Color

Will is learning his colors right now and loves to practice saying the different color names. We are still working on differentiating between colors and matching the correct word with the color. I think right now his color choice depends more on what his favorite word happens to be that day, than actually knowing what the right color is. However, he usually is able to correctly name blue and yellow. His pronunciation of some of the words cracks me up and purple is my favorite. I had to catch it on video so I could show it to him one day. Here is a clip.....

Memorial Day

Myrtle Beach 2010

We made the 15 hour trek down to Myrtle Beach again this year. It was great being able to get away as a family and just relax and spend time together. The past few months have been so busy between working, house projects and weekend plans that it was nice to just get away from it all and decompress. The drive down went surprisingly smooth and both boys handled the ride fairly well. If anything, Jack gave us the most problems because without fail, every time we pulled onto the road, within 5 minutes we were pulling off the road to change a dirty diaper. We had great weather and spent our time hanging out at the pool and beach and Eric was able to get in a few rounds of golf. We had a few minor incidents during the week which involved Will falling out of bed in the middle of the night, Eric making a late night trip to the ER, and Will nearly knocking his front tooth out on the side of the pool (which is now a light shade of grey) but aside from that we had a great vacation!

Here are a few pictures from the trip.....