almost immediately after our breakfast date, we left nyc and went straight to the shore where my parents and sister’s family live. parker napped nearly the whole way (high-fives steve!) and we arrived before dinner time. parker and quinn have seen each other a handful of times since parker’s been born (quinn’s one year older) but it’s mostly been parallel sort of play. now! they interact! they “talk” – parker’s still working on this piece and at one point quinn said, “mom, why isn’t he talking to me?” fear not, nephew! he’ll talk to you more soon. at least, words you can decipher the meaning of! (quinn even said, in the sweetest little voice, “follow me parker, you’re my best friend.”) and it was just so, so, sooooo sweet to watch. i mean, words really aren’t doing it justice. kate’s one of my best friends in the world and now we have these sons who seem to love each other too. it made me really happy. (and, there’s one more young boy cousin – sam! – but my sister was busy moving out of her house while we were down so we didn’t get to hang much. next time, sam! the trifecta will be complete!)
and, there’s the sweetest little girl. a few pictures up, that’s nora. quinn’s little sister. the newest cousin! (she’s seven months old and pure chunk and goodness.)
we went to the stone harbor beaches, playgrounds, and even snuck out for some girl time (my sister, mom, and i) at the new reeds hotel for drinks. it went too quickly, but isn’t that how these trips always go? we’ll be down later in the summer for a longer period of time.
until then, boys!
this is my fave pic of the weekend. those studs.
and a video. because, it’s funny.
(aaaand this is the first time parker and quinn hung out. they’ve come a long way.)
and that’s enough linking for now.
These pictures capture their little personalities so perfectly. Unfortunately the video is blocked at work:/ Cousins are the best!
Parker's smirk is too cute. Love it!
such a beautiful family!
Oh Quinn is equally as delicious as sweet Parker….they are so adorbale together! My brother in law and my sister in law each just had babies around the same time we had Grace (who is almost 5 months already, what…how did that happen?) and so now we have sweet cousins that are all whithin 2 months of age of each other and I can not wait until they get a little older and can play together and be best friends…oh the fun they will have! I was always the youngest cousin so I don't have memories like that and the memories these babies will share growing up well it just makes my heart smile thinking about it!
Third pic down of Parker, new fav Parker pic EVER!! 🙂 Oh and I want to take a ride on the sand like the boys in the vidoe, looks so fun….cute video!!
Your little guy is the sweetest! What a smile!
And that video. Your poor hubby. lol.
Hah!!! You're right, that video is great. How fun for those boys to have each other. So sweet. Liam is sans cousin still… hopefully some day. In the meantime, we're baking him up a lil sister! 🙂 And P.S. man, Parker's hair is amazing. He's so cute.
Megan from Chasing Davies
i'm diggin' parker's hair. i'm usually not a fan of long hair on babies unless you live in SoCal, but he's pulling it off. #forsure ; )
I love the portraits you shot of the kids! The video pretty freakin funny, too.
Gorgeous gorgeous wee boy cousins!
Cousins are the greatest. Seeing them interact is good for the soul, is it not? And, they're both so handsome!
love that portrait shot of Parker! Darling!