Eamonn's Adventures

Visit from Grammie and Grandpa

We had a great Halloween visit with Greg's parents in from Boston. Here are a few pics from our trip to the zoo. I will post pictures of E in his monkey costume soon!

We also paid a visit to the studio for some spur of the moment pictures - these turned out a LOT better than the last visit...

Favorite activities

Eamonn's favorite activities this week are (in order of preference):

1. Walking the neighborhood (he can now open the new latch on our front gate which is a problem)

2. Finding Goldbug in his Richard Scarry book

3. Cooking in his new kitchen!!! I bought this off Craigslist and it is AWESOME. He loves it! Woo hoo! Top Chef in training!

Visit with Peachie and Rollie

Greg's second cousins came to California for Boston to celebrate some milestone birthdays and were able to meet Eamonn.

I am including both photos because I think his face is so funny in these - I swear Eamonn is a very happy child - but in front of the camera he is the master of the sourpuss face!!!

This month

I just watched a video clip of Eamonn trying to crawl at 8 months old and realized I cannot believe this is the same kid who now asks for popcorn by name and finds Goldbug before I can - when less than a year ago he couldn't move! I just wish I had enjoyed his babyhood more - the time flew by and my most vivid memory is that we were exhausted - ALL the time. But he sure was cute! And thank goodness we're not as tired now but he still is darn cute.

This month we went up to Cabrillo for the first time...

The next day we tried to pick apples with friends in the mountains (but it was 95 degrees so we left for home after only 1 hour!!!)...

These kids love tractors!

And horses!

Here is Eamonn kicking back with his books before bedtime.

Eamonn reads his John Deere tractor catalog almost daily.

Two weeks ago - new skill!

Eamonn discovered he could step over things a couple of weeks ago and he practiced over and over and over.....it has been so much fun watching him discover how to use his body - first to walk, then climb, then walk backwards, bounce up and down, stamp his feet, step over things, walk on his knees....he pursues each activity with such enthusiasm and delight at the "newness" of it all. The "teacher" and "audience" part of parenting is a lot of fun!