My first family visit in London! So fun!

Very nice Traditional Pies at the Borough Market

My grandparents are visiting us this month.
We've done lots of fun things, including walking

all over the place! We went to The Borough Market,

saw the Old Globe Theatre where some guy
named William used to put on plays he wrote a
very very long time ago.

On the way home from our big walk, we walked across
the Millenium Bridge, over the Thames River.
The sun was setting which all the grownups seemed to like.
My favorite thing actually was the way the shiny floor
made my buggy vibrate. Good for relaxing!

On my first big day out with my grandparents,
we went to Gymboree. My first class ever and
boy did I have fun!! Popo took lots of pictures,
so we'll try to have them up soon so everyone
can see how much fun I had!
On the second day we wanted to do something
that Grandma and Popo have been looking
forward to since they were last in London 4
years ago! (That's a super duper long time.)
We went to Ye Olde Mitre. Here's a picture of me at the table in front of our little area where we had a fireplace. Yes, that's my Guardsman from the Queen's Palace at Westminster.
Here's a video of Grandma and Popo and me at the Mitre.

We'll check in again soon with more to report.
Big hugs and kisses!

The Great Big Move!!

I'm sure you would all like some details on our immigrating to London yesterday. To start it went very very smoothly. We however snapped nary a picture... so here's my account:
After getting our tickets less than 12 hours before departure, we all had a great flight. Eamon slept like a dream for a lot of it, and we got some in as well. For the part Eamon wasn't sleeping he was flirting, nibbling on our food and playing with his toys at our feet. All amazing behavior
considering he is definitely just about to get two more teeth.
Getting all of the luggage to check in and then from baggage claim to the car service was pretty hilarious, two carts stacked 4 high, precariously balanced, pushed by one person and the other with E in his stroller and another bag pulled behind. Pretty funny and we didn't take a single
picture, it's too bad. We managed to get everything without a spill to the pick u area and when we were looking for our driver Sean said "Oh, there he is with the grey shirt and the brown tie." He should have said- oh he's the guy with the mullet of the millenium. About 6 inches of grey locks hanging from a respectably shorn top with a nice bald spot in back. The guy was very nice, but I couldn't stop looking at the mullet and wondering what hair bands he used to listen to in the 80s.
We had a lovely drive to our flat, weaving through Chiswick, being let by the "SatNav" (GPS). I still can't get my head around driving on the left. I kept getting confused by our turns. Luckily no car and driving awaits us here in our new life.
The flat is a little bit posh and a little bit cheesy, but bit by bit we're making it our own for the 4 weeks we're here. There are maids who come M-F, I gather, and I haven't made it down to the steam/sauna yet or the pool, but it's been less than 24 hours. Soon we'll get Eamon in that pool to give it a whirl. I wonder if the Marks and Spencer down the block will have gear for him?
We have had the best fish and chips of our lives and a couple of perfect pints of Guinness however. I think Eamon may have disrupted a date happening at the next table by flirting with the gal a lot. The poor guy just didn't stand a chance being upstaged by a smiling 10 month old. The place was called The Salt House and it's just a stone's throw from our place, so we'll probably have pictures of E there soon enough.
I can count of one hand the number of pots and pans in our kitchen here. Those who know me would totally laugh. And the counter space is dominated by a microwave neither of us can figure out (so we just keep hitting "quickstart" which does 15 seconds on high). Also, I have claimed the larger bathroom as mine, which I think will be a marriage saver. Now Sean can be as messy as he wants in his own, because mine is just as closeby and is just my stuff. I've never thought I would be so territorial about something like a bathroom!
Views from the flat are great, but you have to stand to see them over the frosted glass balcony "rail". Still it's London and it's impressive. Just as much by day as by night. We had a great sunset on our first night, which seemed like a big ribbon bow on top of our new gift of living as expats in this amazing and fantastic city.
I'll be updating the blog with pictures as soon as we start snapping them. Check back in soon.
All our love,
Eamon's mommy/mum

London!

I just went to London for the first time. We stayed at a really nice hotel in Soho where the staff all played with me whenever I saw them. I slept a lot, we went on the Tube, I rode around in my new stroller and we looked for neighborhoods to live in when we move in a couple of weeks.
I'm pretty excited to have a british accent one day, but mostly I'm just excited to be in one time zone long enough to get adjusted and not have to be so sleepy.

shoes that kick, almost crawling!

Hi Everyone! Well, my first pair of high tops arrived in the mail yesterday and they were put on my feet immediately. Momma couldn't wait, but I wasn't so sure. I wore them all day, all the way up until bedtime, and I think I could get used to this shoe wearing... the soles felt nice for rubbing my new teeth on, they made a great noise when I crashed them together and when someone helped me stand up, I could practice my tap dancing/clogging routine. Hooray for shoes.
So onto other topics, I'm getting pretty strong and coordinated. I'm posting a video of me dropping things and picking them up again and you can see how good I am at leaning all the way forward and then picking myself up again. Next stop, crawling!

We're in Portland!

Just a quick post to say we made it to Portland safely and are so excited to visit with everyone here!
Also, I'm posting a pic of my new front teeth that are coming in. What a Christmas!!
Big hugs for everyone!!
xoxoxo Eamon

p.s. Remember, if you want to look closer at the picture of my teeth, just double click on it! It's kinda the only way you can really see my new chompers...

more snow!

Well, we still have all of our old snow and they're saying we're going to get more. Hooray! Looks like my first Christmas will be super duper white. Mommy and Daddy had a little snowball fight the other night to show me what it's all about and they say they're going to make a snowman today, after I've had my nap. We'll see...

We're having some people over tonight to decorate out Christmas Tree. Mommy made lots of cookies and treats and Poppa shoveled the stairs off so people can come in the front gate, boy is there a lot of snow!!

I will probably put up some pictures later of the party and maybe a video if we take any.
Until then, stay warm everyone! Santa is coming soon!
xoxoxo Eamon

SNOW!!

Okay, we got a lot of snow. Momma and Boppa took lots of pictures of the snow and some of me in it. And maybe I should show you also some pictures of me in my santa's helper hat, or rather eating the jingle bell on top (don't worry it's safely sewed on!)   Don't forget if you double click or left click on the pictures you like, it will open up the big jpg for easier viewing!