We just came back from a quick trip to visit the grandparents.  The drives both ways were smooth.  We did not hit any traffic and the boys were very good; we made each way in total 6 hours with only one stop.  On the way there, the boys were so excited to see the grandparents that Connor kept asking “Here?”.  They gave hugs to grandma and grandpa, and jumped right in to play with grandma.  During this trip, they spent lots of quality time with the grandparents, especially with Grandma.  They played with blocks and cars, played in the backyard, and on the Nickjr website.  Grandma also watched Logan during his quiet time each day while the rest of us taking naps.  Grandma has learned to understand Connor’s imperfect pronunciation quite well by the end of the trip.

     On Friday as the weather was nice, we all headed to the beach.  It was a quiet day there and so we felt like we had the beach all to ourselves.  The grandparents sat and enjoyed some sunlight while the boys played with sand and water.  Logan enjoyed playing near the waves while Connor was scare by it and only wanted to watch.  Connor also liked carrying water back to mix in with sand.  The boys also had fun having their feet buried by Stuart in the sand; they had quite a giggle there.  We had a picnic lunch at the beach too; so it was a very pleasant afternoon.

    We went for a walk at Manhattan pier on Saturday morning.  It was cloudy and much cooler that day, so we all had to bundle up.  We walked down the pier and took a look inside the small aquarium at the end.  On the way back, we spent some time watching the surfers.  We were playing a game watching which surfer would make it up on wave or not; the boys had a great laugh calling out “Maybe not”.

   On Saturday night, Andrew, Trevor and his friend Deanna came to join us for dinner.  We had a nice dinner out, then we all returned to the house for some tea and cookies.  Somehow the boys started a game “Hide the gun” with everyone; we all took turn hiding their pirate gun in the room, and Logan and Connor would come back to the room to find it.   Logan got slightly upset initially when Connor found the gun instead, but he got over it and continued to play.  They loved the game and we all had a good laugh watching them finding the gun too.  It seemed that we had played more than a dozen time before we had to finally end the night.

    The trip was a nice way to wrap up the boys’ spring break.  Now everyone is back to routine, and back to school and work tomorrow.

Here are a few video clips at the beach.  Logan, Connor, Burying feet