Day 2: Ireland! and jet lag

We arrived in Ireland at about 5am local time (1am DC time). During the flight, Ian slept about an hour, Kevin and I slept about 2 hours, and I think Eleanor won the prize for the most sleep with 3 hours. We took a local bus from the airport to our beautiful seaside hotel at 7am and they checked us in right away. We ate breakfast, napped, and took a sunny walk along the dunes and beach. Our goal is to stay awake until about 6pm local before heading to bed so that we can head to London tomorrow!

Day 1: Travel

Friday, March 15. Over the next couple weeks, I am going to try to post daily about our adventures in Ireland. Today, so far, we've left home and driven to the Philadelphia airport where we saw PopPop Perese for a moment before he took off with our minivan (thanks, John!). We are waiting to board our flight to Boston...

Visiting

Ian and Eleanor are allowed to sleep in the same bed as long as its not a school night. Tonight, Jorge joined them.

Family band revisited

For Christmas, Kevin bought ukuleles for all three of us. Mine is a lovely natural wood, Eleanor's is yellow, and Ian's is green. I am excited to learn how to make music on mine so that I cn join the family band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ph0a2PVo_0

One tooth down - 19 more to go

Ian lost his first tooth today. The amazing thing about it is that it became loose and fell out in a period of about 24 hours! Also- it's kind of early, but apparently not abnormally early, according to the Mayo Clinic.

We have a reader!

Eleanor has been spelling our names, her classmates names, the names of her Halloween candy, and anything else she can find. In the past week or so, she has started reading. It's slow-going but it is pretty exciting...

Dear Santa

First letter to Santa:
Dream light
Remote control helicopter
Dear Santa
Ian