Easter picnic

My friend (her pics are amazing, check them out) hosted an amazing Easter Egg picnic in Central Park. It was an absolute gorgeous day in Central Park. Loren was able to join Sophie and Erica for the weekend as well. We dyed Easter eggs after the picnic and ended the day at Patsy's!

Sophie and Erica came for a visit

Sophie and Erica came to visit along with Erica's family just before Easter. The boys loved having their cousin here and we enjoyed having all of them.  The weather was perfect while they were here.  We finally went to the row boats in Central Park!

Row boats in Central Park

Erica insisted on riding by herself.  ahha.  Sophie wanted to ride with her cousins

adorable

Lots of play time

Sophie is a cutie

WE did a lot of this while they were here. 

Gavin, Eli, and Joshua 6 months comparison

Gavin: 20lbs 5 oz  and 29 inches

Eli- 19lbs 2 oz and 28 1/2 inches

Joshua-18 lbs 12 oz and 29 1/4 inches

The Awakening Joshua-6-7 months

Joshua is now 7 Months!  He has definetely reached "the awakening" period.  I don't know if I heard that somewhere or if I just named it that because babies finally come realize that there is a lot of really cool things within their grasp.  He has started eating solids and is loving it.  He still smiles continually and at anyone who pays him attention.  He has 2 teeth.  He finally started sitting up (closer to 7 months), he also finally rolled from front to back.   He is still pretty much bald and I love it.   Here are his 6 months stats:

Height: 29 1/4 inches 97th percentile
Weight: 18 lbs 12 oz abd 60th percentile
Head : 46 cm  It's big.

Random Pics

Here are few random pictures and happenings from the last few months:

Gavin and Grace while visiting Long Island

I love how carefree my kids are when we are there. It is one of our favorite places to visit

Eli's soccer class.  He was so fast in his class and quite aggressive when he wanted to be.

Boyd took the kids to the St. Patty's Day Parade

With a bunch of friends at the Parade

Belvedere Castle

On a family walk to Riverside

I am working on my photography skills now that we have a new camera.  I am even taking a class and I can't wait.  I love this picture of Eli and I worked on it for a while. 

Joshua loves to give kisses, or he loves to try and bite our faces

I had preschool at my house.  I love this little gang.  It is sad to think that they will be going their separate ways next year for Kindergarten. Most have been together for 2 years now at Book Buddies and with our coop this year.

Cayman Islands

This face says it all..

We had a blast.

We pretty much spent our time going between eating, beach, and pool.

The beach was perfect.

Joshua is happy here and he would be happy for a bit in the water, but for the most part he was not too happy with the water temp or the bright sun. :)

We got to watch the sunset almost every night.

Grandma Miggy was able to join us for this trip!  Hooray!  We sure loved our breakfasts at the hotel.

We went on one excursion while we were there.  We sailed on a large catamaran.

to Stingray City.  It is a large sandbar in the ocean that is home to more than two dozen "tame" Atlantic Southern Stingray's that enjoy the company of humans. The Stingray's swim freely with humans in only three feet of water at the shallow Sandbar area.

  We got to get in the water with them and touch them.  The boys both did it it, but Eli got nervous after about 5 minutes.  It was a little freaky for me too.  Doesn't the water look like pool water?  Crazy.

ON the same excursion they took us to another stop to snorkel.  Gavin was a little nervous about doing it, because it was deep water, but he was very brave and decided to try.  He loved it and he had snorkel and flippers on pretty much for then on out, even in the pool.  The underwater life there was spectacular.   At the beach we were staying at there was pretty incredible snorkeling.  There was a reef not too far of the beach that you could swim to.  Boyd and Eli took a kayak and Gavin and I attempted to swim out there.  It was a bit much for Gavin, so luckily Boyd picked him up in the kayak.  We were swarmed by a large school of fish while we were out there.  It was pretty cool, but again, made me feel a little vulnerable. 

WE at a place called The Warf and it was delicious.

Every night after sunset we would have this beautiful view of the moon and 2 planets.  (Jupiter and Venus?) 
Of course, one of the best parts was catching up on our sleep.  We would go to bed shortly after the boys every night.

Here's gavin in his full Snorkel gear. 

This was our last night there and it was the memorable.  We stayed at the beach until it was almost dark.  The sunset was spectacular.  The water was perfect.  We just couldn't get enough.