We stayed with Uncle Nick, Aunt Aine and cousins Aoife and Dan. Declan had so much fun at the house- rough housing in the living room with his cousins and playing with Bonnie the dog, jumping on the trampoline, kicking and throwing the soccer ball around and going for buggy rides.
Trampoline fun with Dan....
Playing with Dan and Aoife....
Hurling with Padraic and Uncle Alan at Ed & Ann Marie's
Declan and Bonnie
One of the first evenings in Ireland, Declan's cousins Dan and Padraic had a Gaelic Football game. Declan enjoyed being amongst the football stars and running around on the pitch.
Declan with Padraic and friends
Declan and Dan
Declan and Aoife
We spent a day in Carlow town at Ranch O'Reily's with cousins Evin, Eve, Isabelle, Cara, Eammon, Fina and Manus. It's a fantastic outdoor farm/petting zoo with tractor rides, obstacle courses, big wheel car race track and playground area. Declan enjoyed it all from feeding goats to jumping on trampolines and muddy tractor rides!
Declan and Isabelle in the tree house
Declan w cousins
Tractor ride
Trampoline Fun!
Sand Box fun with Eve
We spent a beautiful day at the beach in Curracloe. It was a gorgeous Irish day-chilly and breezy. The only time I had ever been to a beach where we put on more clothes once we arrived
Ireland came and went all too fast. It was so good to be home on the farm and to see everyone in such great form. Declan had a blast with his cousins, exploring the farm and toddling around all the open space, checking out the animals and most memorable a tractor ride with Uncle and Godfather Eddie!
Declan with first cousins Padraic, Aoife and Dan
Granny and Granddad teaching Declan some Irish dance steps...
Declan and Granddad reading...
Declan with Cousin Aoife and Aunt/Godmother Magaret
We've had a lot of rain lately, a few great lightning storms and a ton of thunder. Sunday morning we were letting daddy sleep in from his late night at the bar, so we enjoyed breakfast downstairs and played in the rain.
Here is Declan enjoying the rain drops and splashing in the puddles
Declan pushes and rides on the choo choo train from his grammy all the time in the house and down the hallway. Daddy decided to take a ride and see what all the fun was about...
We have a fruit bowl on the counter and Declan will point and have us take him over to it so he can choose a piece of fruit. Here is a video of him with a peach. One of his new favorites.
We watched Declan's friend Chase for two days last week. We had lots of fun. Declan played a little rough sometimes and is learning to share, but overall did great. Declan though was very curious of Chase's face, head and mouth. He wanted to keep poking at him, and by the end of the day Chase had had enough. They were in the stroller together and Declan had his finger in Chase's mouth for probably the tenth time and what do you know Chase chomped down. Not hard enough to do anything but just enough to let Declan know he was over it, it was quite funny.
