Saturday, November 27, 2010

Yummy Crabs!

Eoin trying crab for the first time on a recent trip to Monteray.

Friday, November 26, 2010

A band aid makes everything better.



Here's Eoin 'fixing' Uncle Joe's head with a pink Dora the Explorer band aid. Eoin thinks a band aid fixes everything luckily 'Frank' (Joe's tumor) has gone but I'm sure the Dora band aid helps a little.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving Football Game


Uncle Joe and Auntie Martina trying to tire Eoin out before Thanksgiving dinner.





Saturday, November 20, 2010

Taking things literally


Last night we celebrated National Adoption Day with pizza. Eoin and I love to have ranch sauce with our pizza however Eoin ended up with quite a lot of ranch sauce. Uncle Matt was rather surprised and when I said 'oh don't worry Eoin would drink ranch with a straw if he could' Eoin insisted on a straw to drink his extra ranch sauce. Man we have to be so careful what we say now a days!



Friday, November 19, 2010

A day of climbing


Eoin certainly got up to much mischief today - mainly climbing to try and get at stuff. Every now and again I would here him shouting through the house 'Mommy I need a little bit of rescuing'. Cue the camera and trying to keep a straight face and tell him that climbing on the counters was not allowed. 

Thursday, November 18, 2010

A visit to Santa Cruz

 As today was looking like the only dry day Uncle Matt would see while he was visiting from the UK we decided to go to Santa Cruz. We weren't expecting everything to be closed up (but it makes sense really) so we only got to play crazy golf and do a couple of other fun games. Eoin played air hockey for the first time and tried to play foos-ice-hockey. Once we hit Eoin's nap time we drove up route 1 which was sunny and stunning and then we grabbed a late lunch at Alice's.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Advent Calendar

Today I finished painting Eoin's advent calendar. It is the first painting project I have done - normally I am a paper crafter. I enjoyed this one but have learnt many things I would do differently next time. Still I hope Eoin enjoys using his calendar for the month of December.


Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Double Success


Today has been a double success day! First off Eoin got another swim ribbon this morning. He now has Level 1 and Level 2 under his belt. Then after a very short nap Eoin decided he wanted to not wear diapers and wear underwear. Now he has done this before so I was so proud of him when he went the whole afternoon without any accidents and even used the bathroom at a neighbors house. Maybe just maybe it has something to do with his new Jelly Belly dispenser - he only gets jelly belly beans if he uses the bathroom. So far he has made it to the bathroom 4 times without any help from Mommy!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Getting ready for Thanksgiving

Here is Eoin showing off his leaf garlands that he made with Mommy. We are busy decorating our new place for Thanksgiving and can't wait to have friends and family visit us.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

3 year check up

Yesterday Eoin had his three year check - up with our family doctor. Eoin loves going to see Dr Walton normally but this time round he was a little apprehensive. This check up was very different to his past check ups - we were told it was a big boy check up now. Eoin had to get into a gown and have his blood pressure checked!

Anyhow the stats - at three years old Eoin weighs 42 lbs and is 42 inches tall (19 kilos and 106.6 cm). That put him firmly on the 100 percentile for his age group. In fact it puts him in the 80 percentile if he was 4 and 30 percentile if he was 5. So I guess right now we have a 3 year old who looks like a small 5 year old! That in itself brings its own issues but another blog entry I'm sure will turn up about that soon.

 
Eoin had his eyes and hearing tested and he passed all the developmental milestones with flying colors. Now we just have to work on getting him to dress and undress himself and not getting so easily frustrated.

Finally at the age of three Eoin is sleeping through the night which is HUGE. He is a happier kid and we are happier parents :-).

Monday, November 8, 2010

Imaginary Friend



Eoin has an imaginary friend called Dino. Dino arrived about six weeks ago right about the same time as his play structure and our move to our new home.
Dino is a red creature maybe a cross between a dragon and a dinosaur from what we can tell. Dino comes with Eoin most places and if we forget him we have to open the car window to let him fly in.
Dino seems to have a family too and often the neighborhood is deafened by the noise of Eoin shouting Dino to come play.
So far Dino hasn't been blamed for any bad behavior but I'm sure that is the next step.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

The best sound ever!


Eoin was in fits of laughter when he realized that using the arrow keys he could make videos of himself and his swim teacher move faster or slower.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Fall Time

Eoin and I spent all day making our Fall/Thanksgiving door wreath. We traced around Eoin's hand and then cut it many times out of felt. I covered a foam circle in red ribbon and then we covered the circle in the felt hands. Finally Eoin helped pick out all the buttons to be glued onto the wreath. As you can tell Eoin (and me) are super proud of our little craft project.