Memorial Day Weekend

Who doesn't love holiday weekends?! It was HOT, but we made the most of the long weekend and did our best to stay cool. Liam spent much of the weekend "swimming" in the little pool he got for Easter from Nana and Grandpa:



With the help of a deck umbrella, this was the perfect place to beat the heat! The Derry boys lounging pool-side:



On Sunday afternoon, we went to a cookout at Miss Doreen and Uncle Sam's house. Liam had a blast playing with Gina (EEEna), Louie (Douis), cousin Maura, and with Doreen and Sam's nephew, Sante. Liam's current favorite thing to do is to play baseball, so he was pretty happy when Louie wanted to play. Batter up!



The kids actually ended up spending most of the cookout jumping on the trampoline at the Shea's house next door. Liam had never been on one before, but Gina (in the black) took him under her wing, and he loved it! It took some creativity to peel him away from that trampoline at the end of the evening.



Joergen, on the other hand, preferred to stay in the shade and soak up attention from the ladies:



Uncle Sam, who has nicknamed Joergen "Kronk", even managed to steal him away for a little while himself. It was nice for Daddy and me to have both of the boys happily occupied!

On Monday morning, we took the boys for Joergen's first trip to the zoo. The Philly Zoo partnered with the Jim Henson Company to create this cool animal conservation program at the zoo, so we were looking forward to checking it out.



We stopped one of the puppet shows to learn about frogs from "Phibi", and we were proud of little Liam for being the only kid in the crowd brave enough to volunteer to go up to the stage to help teach everyone how to jump and ribbit!



Joergen, Mommy, and Liam in the primate house (how cool were those gorillas?!):



Liam and Daddy at the big cat exhibit. We saw jaguars, lions, and got up close and personal with a tiger!



Last stop before heading home was to check in on the "jaffes". Liam loves them and was excited to see the baby out!

It was pretty steamy out, so we didn't stay long-- while he was awake, poor Joergen was not exactly loving his zoo experience. All four of us took some serious naps that afternoon in the comfort of the AC at home!

We also used this weekend to start working on transitioning Joergen from sleeping pretty much exclusively in his swing (which was a habit he got into when he was so congested and needed to be upright) back to sleeping horizontally in his pack-and-play. And I'm very happy to report success! Joey slept for 6 hours straight last night!