Saturday Morning

The place we stayed in was old railroad cars converted into a house. It was a pretty cool place. There was a spot for the kids to drive the train and there was even a button for them to push that would make train sounds. Marcus liked to drive the train.

Our family stayed in the Caboose. It was really nice. It was like a Master Bedroom complete with a King bed, a little area for the kids blow up beds and even a bathroom. Gia liked our room too...Marcus sure loves Gia.

Saturday morning the boys got busy cleaning clams. Marcus thought it was pretty cool.

He wanted to do a little taste testing too...YUCK!

While the boys worked hard cleaning the clams...it was back to the beach for the kids.

The kids played hard for most of the morning then it was back to the train for lunch.

Emma decided to take the train for a ride too.

Gia wants to know when lunch is going to be ready.

Sophie taught Olivia how to balance on the steel rails outside. Nice job Olivia!

I took the girls for a little walk around the area. We had a lot of fun.

Friday Night: Clam Digging Begins

The cousins arrived and it was back to the beach for some clam digging. Elle and Gia were ready.

Elle is happy to be there.

Auntie Tracy shows off one of the first clams.

Poppi took this clam digging seriously...he was digging holes all over the beach.

Marc was pretty serious too.

While the grown ups worked hard to get the clams the kids played on the beach.

Here are all the big kids.

Grami was in charge of watching the kids and taking them back to the house when they got cold. This is all the grand kids...Elle is hiding behind Gia.

The Beach!

We went to Ocean City this weekend for some clam digging. We arrived Friday afternoon. The first thing we did was find the beach which was just a short walk from where we were staying. The kids saw the ocean and went running.


Emma had a mission to gather some shells. She started right away and got some nice ones.

Olivia was just soaking it all in and thought this was so cool!

Marcus just hung out with Daddy and Raymond...just the boys.

Of course Marcus had to test out the water...splash!

Mommy needs a family photo...say cheese!

Olivia and Marcus learned about the tides. They screamed and ran every time the tide came in.

"WE LOVE THE BEACH!"

Hey Mom! This is cool.

What's that Marcus?

Walking along the beach. Thank goodness for Raymond...we would have never gotten this picture.

There's Uncle Raymond!

Marcus' Godfather.

This was the field we walked through to get from the house to the beach. We only did it once due to the water being quite deep in places. It was hard to walk through and we found out we could actually drive right onto the beach so opted for that route instead.

Oh No!

Marcus fell outside today.

He said "I'm Really Mad!" His biggest disappointment was that he could not put his hands in his pocket on his sweatshirt. Poor kid. But funny!

Dress up

Never a dull moment with these three. I remember when that dress that Olivia is wearing touched the floor! It really wasn't that long ago. Notice Emma wearing the pink cowgirl boots now. She is so proud they finally fit her!

Leftovers

The snow hit us a little sooner than expected this year and we didn't quite get all the leaves up. Now that the snow is gone, Marc is sending out the troops to pick up the left over leaves. Yesterday Olivia and Marcus were all over it.

Look at those hard little workers...

Done already? They didn't get too far before they decided it was time to play.

Who could blame them though. It's finally getting nice enough to play outside now. We have to take advantage of it every chance we get!

Bring a Picture Day

Daycare has been doing "theme days" the last couple of months and today's theme was "Bring a Picture to Share" day. I brought all of the printed pictures out for the kids to sift through and this is what they came up with:

MARCUS:

He said he LOVES this picture because it shows how good his sisters play with him...

EMMA:

She said she loves this picture because it has her binky in it (I never really thought she cared much about that binky but I guess she really did...).


OLIVIA:

She just said "this is SOOOOO CUTE!" I agreed.

I just thought it was so funny of all the pictures they had to chose from these were the ones they wanted. Such sweet personalities. Can't wait to hear how their sharing went :-)

Night Light

One night we had a really hard time getting Marcus to stay in bed. I finally handed him his head light and said to get to bed or he'd lose it forever. That was all he needed; we didn't hear another word from him. When I went in to check on him before my bedtime, this is how I found him. He was sound asleep and the room was dark (my camera had the flash on so it's hard to tell). The only light in there was the one from his head shining on the wall. I thought this was so precious.