Ainsley Marin is 10 months old!

Aidan Kane is 2 years and 4onth old. 

Kaelin Avery is 3 years and 6 months.

Keeley Shea is 4 years and 9 months old.  

We just got back from our vacation in Kennebunkport, Maine.  We rented a house on the beach which was part of a resort that was originally built in the mid 1600's. The house we stayed at was built circa 1725!  It was a nice size rental with four bedrooms and modern kitchen and bath, but the ceilings were so low and the doorways and hallways were so thin (since people were much smaller hundreds of years ago).  Grandma and Grandpa from Wisconsin joined us on vacation and were a few steps away at the Inn.  The kids loved being so close to the ocean and didn't care when for the first three days we were there it was rainy and cold (as you can tell from the pictures, they went in the water fully dressed every day!).  Grandma got a lot of knitting done!  Everyone had fun collecting shells at the beach.  We went out for a couple big meals (barely surviving the chaos!) and Kaelin and Aidan loved the shrimp meals they got at Mabel's and Aidan loved his first taste of lobster at Allison's (Grandpa liked his lobster during vacation too, and got it for three meals!), Keeley's favorite was her spaghetti and meatball dinner (takes after Mommy!).  Ainsley, is on the move constantly and we had to keep he away from some the walls of the house which undoubtedly had lead in the paint, she loves to pick at things and put everything in her mouth still!  One day, when it was too quiet at the house, we called for the kids and when no one answered, we discovered that they snuck out the door.  Aidan was already down the end of the dirt driveway standing knee high in a puddle of mud.  Kaelin was around the corner talking to the Inn-Keeper asking if she's seen Aidan.  Scary and Dirty....Speaking of dirty, we had to do four sandy loads of laundry while there (even though we packed 2 outfits a day for each kid for a total of 48 outfits....there's no traveling light for us anymore!)

When the weekend came, the O'Shea clan arrived in Kennebunkport for Uncle Mikey and Auntie Tracey's wedding.  Festivities started Friday night, with the wedding on Saturday and a big breakfast on Sunday.  After a week of rain, Saturday turned out to be a spectacular day and Mikey and Tracey had a perfect outdoor wedding.  The kids only stayed for the ceremony (so Mommy and Daddy could enjoy the rest of the night without chasing them!).  Mikey and Tracey are now off to another travel adventure, this time to Costa Rica. 

Upon returning from vacation and as we pulled in the driveway, Aidan started to scream "I no like yellow house, I like ocean house!, I want ocean house!".  He says his favorite thing about our trip was "when I marry Uncle Mikey an when I fine the crab at ocean".  He can't stop talking about the lobsters and crabs.  Although Ainsley can't tell us, were sure her favorite thing was getting lots more attention, hugs and kisses from everyone.  One of Kaelin's favorite things was making mud pies at the beach and Keeley's was collecting cool shells and beach rocks.  All of them had a blast jumping in the freezing cold Atlantic water.

Our two new picture windows were delivered the day we after we returned from our trip, so Daddy, with Papa's help, will be busy installing those this week!  The house projects never end....