Does he dare.....

Does he dare pull Sappho's tail? The cat is asking for her tail to be pulled especially as Eoin has now worked out that he can roll to get to where he wants!

Clean face

more eating

Ummm breakfast

Eoin is now eating two solid meals a day and is down to three or four six ounce bottles a day. We give him some water too when he wants it. His favorite foods so far are bananas and sweet potatoes and he will generally eat about four ounces at a feeding. He makes the best 'ummm' noises while he eats and is very good at opening his mouth!

Finding my toes

Eoin is beginning to discover toes but has yet to put them in his mouth without help.

Cheeky Boy

We just love the cheeky grin on Eoin's face!

Easter chocolate

I'm going to get into this if it's the last thing I do!

Happy Easter everyone!

Happy Easter everyone! We are having a really fun day together with friends and family.

Poor Eoin can't have chocolate yet but that doesn't mean he can't enjoy the crinkly paper that the chocolate comes in!

Picnic at the beach

We've had a couple of picnic's at the beach in the last couple of days and Eoin has loved it. He sits in his little seat and enjoys his food and the fresh air.

Five months old

Eoin is five months old today and wow has he grown and changed in those five months. He is now eating solid food and really enjoying it. Eoin has tried sweet potatoes, apples and bananas. Eoin is weighing in at just over 20lbs and is 27 inches long.

Eoin is almost rolling from his back to his tummy and can now scoot around on both his back and tummy by pushing with his legs. He is really enjoying his books now and loves to have stories read. He helps by turning the page over. Eoin's favorite song is Head Shoulders Knees and Toes and he pulls your hands to his head when you finish to tell you to start again.

Eoin still loves going to the park and playing on the swings but just as much he loves to watch the other kids playing. He is very social and likes his play dates with his friends. He will talk to them and try and grab their hands. He has also discovered Sappho the cat and likes to stroke her. Sappho is very patient and lets him do what ever he likes to her.

Day out

Andy took a days vacation today and we went off to Muir Woods. Eoin loved being outdoors and talked the whole way round the park. He kept leaning back and looking at the trees.
We had a picnic lunch on Muir Beach and Eoin's grandparents were brave enough to dip their toes into the Pacific but it's much much colder than the Atlantic back home!

Grandparents

Eoin's grandparents arrived safe and sound from Ireland today. They are having a great time getting to know each other.

Luckily the weather is great for their visit so there will be lots of trips to the park and hopefully the beach.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Thanks to all you guys for sending me birthday wishes. We had a great time out last night at one of our favorite places in town. After dinner we all came home and kept celebrating with Katie, Liz and Max. Mommy is a little worse for wear today but hey you are only 31 once!

We had another reason to celebrate too - the end of our social worker visits. We have fulfilled all the criteria for adopting Eoin and now we just have to wait for his six month birthday and then we can go to court to finalize.

Double Trouble

We had so much fun today at the park with our friends Max and Liz. Max and Eoin love spending time together and are so cute with each other. They talk to each other and try and grab each other's hands. We keep wondering if they can understand each other. They loved swinging together - we thought they looked just like a push-me-pull-you from Dr Doolittle. This is such a great way to swing when the park is busy. We first tired this out a week ago with our little friend Anthony and it works so well.

Nap time

This week's task is to teach Eoin to take his naps on his own and not in Mommy's arms. So today was the beginning of 'independent nap boot camp'.

Eoin's first nap of the day was in his stroller as we had errands to run but right now he is in his crib asleep (well he keeps stirring but he is asleep for the most part). I downloaded some white noise and that is playing on a loop on his IPod, he has his blankee and dumbly (Pomianowski name for a pacifier) and so I hope now that he is asleep he will get at least an hour. Mind he complained for half and hour before he feel asleep. What did it in the end was that I stroked his nose for five minutes and that helped him drop off.

Once he has nap time in his crib down we will start thinking about moving him in there for the night but one step at a time!

I don't know if this is going to be harder for him or me - I loved having all that cuddle time but it was just becoming very impractical. Right he is stirring again so off to settle him down again.

Sunny Day

We had a fun afternoon together in the park today. It has been such great weather (sorry you guys back home who are battling storms! Come visit and get some California sun) that we decided to pack a picnic lunch and hang out at the park just round the corner from our house. The temperature is perfect at the moment warm by day and not too hot to sleep at night. Eoin loves being out doors and frankly complains if he doesn't get to go out at least twice a day. He even recognizes the park now and gets excited because he knows he gets to go in the swings.

Almost rolling over

Eoin is almost rolling from his back to his tummy. He has rolled from his tummy to his back once before but as he doesn't much like tummy time my guess is that he will roll from back to tummy regularly first.

Tummy Time

Eoin doesn't much like tummy time but he is getting better at it. He now moves himself around by kicking his legs whether he's on his tummy or back. If he is on his back he can move quite a distance now, in fact the other day he managed to get half way across his room.

Surprise ending

It's the attack of the killer mouth..........

Gardening

We had fun today in the garden. Eoin tried to help but mainly watched Mommy plant ivy, primroses and cyclamen. Eoin was fasintated by the water hose and giggled when I put on the mist setting and gently misted him.