Reilly at 11 months

Here is Miss Reilly on the beach. The stylin' hat is at least 13 years old, it belonged to either Jacob or Seth (the Croft twins) and both Max and Quinlan wore it too.

She loved the ocean! She crawled right into the tide and tried to eat the sand, but only once!

She is cruising around the furniture and stands very well by herself. I don't think it will be long before she is walking. She doesn't like to sit still, she is my first "climber" and now she has decided that she is boycotting pureed food. She would rather eat diced fruits and no green veggies. Yuck.

Father's Day - 2007

We got home from the shore on Saturday and Father's Day was Sunday. It was pretty much just like any other Sunday except Max made a special card and signed his and Quinlan's name to it. Reilly gave her Dad a new frame for his "Daddy" wall and then they all went next door to go swimming. Happy Father's Day Daddy!

The Jersey Shore - Part 5

This is the Cape May, NJ Lighthouse. This particular structure was built in 1859 - the third to be built on this site. There are 199 metal steps in the cast iron spiral staircase - that is 199 steps UP and 199 steps DOWN!! The kids did pretty well. Behind them, in the picture below, you can see how high up we were.
It was a cold, windy, misty day but that didn't keep us from searching the beach at the lighthouse for Cape May "diamonds" (stones that are white in color and very smooth) and checking out the waterfowl. Reilly was in the backpack on the beach but Chris had to carry her up the stairs in his arms. Thankfully he didn't venture out onto the observation deck.

The Jersey Shore - Part 4

Here we all are in sun and surf......what a good looking group don't you think??

The Jersey Shore - Part 3

I think the Boardwalk and the amusement park were the kids' favorite parts of the vacation. We rode a bunch of rides, including a roller coaster, and had ice cream. Wait, maybe ice cream was their favorite part of the vacation. For some reason it seems to taste better when you pay a lot for it and it doesn't come from your freezer.

The Jersey Shore - Part 2

The pool was pretty popular too. I bought some pool toys just before we left. Chris, Max, Quinn and Reilly tried it out. We only had 3 days that were good enough to use it but it was fun.

The Jersey Shore

We vacationed at Wildwood NJ last week and here are some pictures. Max LOVED the water..... he jumped in it, sat in it, tried to drink it and even surfed in it (don't have pictures of that). His lips were blue and he was shivering, but he kept on jumping and swimming.

Quinlan especially liked playing in the sand with Elizabeth and Meagan Bennett (Eric's girls) and running into and out of the tides.

Reilly was crawling all over the place and she, too, loved the water.

Painting the Swingset

Here are Max and Chris painting the swingset. I decided that it looked old and run down so they used some of the left-over stain from the deck and spruced it up a bit. It looks much better now. Yesterday they went to Lowe's and bought new rope for the swings. Soon Reilly's swing (a gift from Santa) will be up and they can all play together!!