Bless his heart!

I walked in to the kitchen to find tons of grocery bags filled. Holdyn passed me with another empty bag. I asked him what in the world he was doing. He said "I am helping you pack up the house, mommy!" How sweet is that little boy! I look in the bags and find a variety of toys, my SHOES, dishes that were dirty (guess he got them out of the sink?!), socks, and all other kinds of random things. It's the thought that counts, I guess!

The other night he fell sound asleep playing a game on the I-Pad!

Holdyn and Hadley had an Easter Egg hunt in Richmond Hill. Hadley had a blast running to get the eggs and put them in her basket. They had areas sectioned off for the little kids and a different area for the big kids.

Holdyn would pick up an egg and want to open each one to see what he got before he would pick up another one. I had to explain to him that he had to run and gets the eggs before they were gone and then at the end you open them up to see what you got!

Hadley loves her car wagon that Holdyn passed down to her! They might ask Santa for a big wagon for Christmas since we will have a 3 car garage and a good neighborhood for wagon rides!

Big Fireman Jim gave Holdyn a REAL fire helmet.

Little Jim gave Holdyn several things when we went for a visit yesterday. He got a real fire nozzle, an ambulance with lights and loud sirens, a NYFD T-shirt from ladder 22 (see story below), and a fireman cookie jar. Everytime you put your hand in it, it says "If you can't handle the heat, get your hand out of the cookie jar!" Holdyn is going to decorate his new bedroom in fire, police, and ambulance so we are starting to get a good collection! Jim's son brought Holdyn this shirt from New York where he is a fireman. On September 11, 2001 he was on the schedule to work that day. One of the other firemen asked him to take over his shift on the 10th, and in return, he would work Jim's sons shift on the 11th. Turns out, everyone in that unit was killed on September 11th. If he hadn't been asked to swap shifts, or if he would have told the guy he couldn't do it, he would have died also. Jim gets choked up everytime he tells me about it and he was so proud to give Holdyn that shirt yesterday from that company and said even though he was to young to know the story behind it, he knew Holdyn would wear it with pride. I reassured Jim that he would do just that!