The babies are here!

Our yard is filled with beautiful birds, but our favorite has to be the robins. We have the fattest, happiest robins around! They are completely unafraid of us...and hop around the yard like they own it. In fact, they are so trusting... that this year, a red breasted robin decided to build her nest in a tree right beside our front door.

With five little blue eggs tucked inside, we've been watching the mother robin as she tends to her nest from our window. The boys love it! Over the last week, we even started going in and out of the garage door so as not to disturb her as we felt the time must be drawing closer for the eggs to hatch.

Well, we were right! The babies are here and they are SO cute. Sometimes when we go out the front door all we can see are these fuzzy little heads. Other times their little beaks are straight up calling out for food. I was able to get some cool photos today of the mother feeding the babies. Enjoy!

Nana and Papa's

We spent the day on Saturday with my parents. We stopped over to help move something and ended up staying all day! Their house has that affect on people. :) The boys love Nana and Papa's as there are so many places to explore.

In the garden, they spent some time spotting the different statues like the frog, duck and bunny. Then it was off to the beach for some digging in the sand and playing with their trucks. They even dipped their toes in the water with Nana...but it was too cold. We went for a quick boat ride, then Kevin and Papa dropped the kids, myself and my mom back at the house for nap time. Tommy was SO excited to see them come back from their boat ride. (Daddy and Papa are like super heroes to these two!)

After dinner Tommy and my dad were being silly. The photos of the two of them are funny as Tommy is making the SAME exact expression as my dad. Lately, they are like monkey-see, monkey do!

Double Trouble

The boys are really partners in crime around here.  Silence speaks VOLUMES.  When it is quiet...Kevin and I start sweating.   But when they are caught...their reactions are so funny!!  Cole is a runner.  He drops whatever he has...runs away and acts like it was Tommy's idea.  Tommy on the other hand, tries to remedy whatever they've done at the last minute.  If it can't be fixed, he just stands there and says sweetly like nothing is wrong, "Hi!" 

The other day, the boys were in the kitchen.  I walked out onto the back porch to water the plants and when I came back in...there was silence.  I said out loud, "Boys?  What are you doing?"  At that...there was a gasp...and then Tommy came tearing around the corner from the living room with two bananas in his hands, pushed them back up on the counter and ran out.  It cracked me up.

This week, I was in the family room when I noticed the silence.  Uh oh.  Then I heard it.   When I turned the corner into the kitchen there was an entire box of elbow macaroni on the floor!  At my intake of breath...Cole ran.  Tommy immediately sat down and started putting the macaroni back INTO the box.  :)  It was so funny!!  In the end...they both sat down and helped mommy clean it up.  Every once in a while Tommy would say, "hi!" just to be sure that all angles were covered.  

Our Boston Adventure

On a total whim, my mom and I took the boys on the ferry into Boston to get them some new crocs and have lunch.  The boys have never been on the ferry before and it was a pretty amazing ride.  We saw helicopters, airplanes, freighters, a British naval ship, sailboats...we even passed by fire engines that we're conducting training out on Moon Island.  

Cole loved every second...screaming "HI!" to passing boats and lots of "WOWS!"  Tommy was a bit more hesitant.  Preferring to sit on mommy's lap and use his trigger finger to point out interesting things.

We arrived in Boston and browsed the shops at Fanueil Hall...got some snazzy new crocs for the boys, chased a few pigeons and then headed to American Joe's Bar and Grill in the North End for a leisurely lunch.

Tommy colored on everything but his place mat.

Cole was ALL business about the apple juice.  I am pretty sure he finished it before his meal even arrived.  I think he lives in fear that Tommy is going to swipe whatever he is eating or drinking.  "Quick!  Down the hatch!"

After lunch we caught the next ferry boat home.  This ferry took a longer route which was really scenic...and a bit rocky.  Cole loved the movement on the boat and was laughing hysterically.  Tommy stood with Nana at the front window pointing out airplanes and boats, until he noticed a woman with a baby.  Then off he went to stand near the baby and stare.  He LOVES babies.  

I don't even think I had pulled out of the parking lot when the boys fell fast asleep.    

Tommy

Cole

It was such an easy trip into the city - maybe 35 minutes tops.  The ferry pulls right up at the Marriott Long Wharf...which is next to the Aquarium, across the street from Fanueil Hall and adjacent to the North End.   It's perfect...and the boys loved every minute.  :)  Next adventure?  The Boston Aquarium!

Car! Car! Car!

The boys are obsessed with cars and trucks...seriously.  When we are driving anywhere...all I hear for the majority of the ride is..."woah!  car!  car!  car!" and they point to every truck, car, motorcycle, etc. that we pass.  And...this NEVER gets old to them.

I took this video while driving; however, I just propped it up on my shoulder and hoped for the best.  I had no idea whether it was even aimed in their direction as my eyes were on the road - -PROMISE.  I was so happy when I came home and realized that I caught them.  It is so funny to me that they do this...