Happy Earth Day! I admit, we didn't do anything very "earthy" today, but we certainly tried. In the morning we went to Kidzone and had tons of fun playing on their go-kart roller coasters. Only thing was that it was indoors. So to make up for it I invited some friends over for a little beach cleanup. Jack's friends Jax and Isaac (along with little bro Luke) came over and we all had a beautiful beachy afternoon. It was so beautiful that it distracted us from our trash cleanup goals! Actually, there wasn't even that much trash on the beach.. there must have been a lot of cleanups this week.

No, he's not crawling yet... but he did pull himself up on his feet all by himself yesterday. I was really surprised. I didn't get it filmed yet, but there's a video at the bottom of this post of him ALMOST standing up. We're watching The Wiggles on tv. Jack loves it.

BEACH SEASON IS HERE!! Finally, after the longest cold season on record since the 80's , we have been released from the terrorism of lingering cold temperatures. Yippee! Today was our first trip to the beach that wasn't just a walk down the shore. Eamon loves to eat sand like his big brother did when he was his age. Jack is getting better at not trying to constantly drown himself in the ocean. He avoids the waves as much as he can, but he still has the compulsion to run into the water every once in a while just to keep his parents on their toes. He loves to collect trash and throw seaweed and rocks into the water.

Eamon is making leaps and bounds on his crawling progression... yet no actual crawling so far. He can lean forward from a sitting position into the crawling position and can heave his whole 20 lbs self up if you give him an arm to hang on to. When are ya gonna start crawling, kid?!? His sleeping, or lack thereof I should say, is insane lately. I'm hoping hoping hoping that he will start crawling and then tire himself out and nap. That'd be great.

We went to visit Mimi (what Jack is now calling Mary) and Poppy for Easter. We arrived Thursday night at about 3:30am and J & E were so excited they couldn't sleep in the car. Poppy's house is just so much fun neither of the boys slept much during our visit. Eamon kept waking up before the birds and even one day at 4am. Jack wanted to party with everyone until the wee hours of the night.


Jack had a fantastic time. He is 100%, totally, absolutely in love with Poppy. Sorry Mimi, but you're just the person that feeds, changes, washes, and takes him on countless walks and park trips. Poppy has his car and the tractor!