Its Been Awhile

Since this is my first post in the new year....Happy 2009 to everyone! I can't believe how quickly January and February have gone! On Wednesday we get to go visit NY, and Quinn finally gets baptised. We are excited about the trip and getting to see everyone, so I hope the weather cooperates and allows us an uneventful trip.

Since the last post Quinn has started saying da-da-da-da and ba-ba-ba, not really in relation to anything in particular, I mean he calls his blocks da-da, so Herb doesn't feel that it is really official that his first word was da-da, but I think it counts. Also he loves to blow raspberries, and will start doing it if you initiate it.

I think last post or so I may have thought at any moment Quinn would be crawling, but we are still waiting, although I think he is still making progress. He has gotten the all fours down, and rocks back and forth, but the actual movement forward hasn't kicked in yet. He has also mastered the sitting by himself, and if you lean him standing against something he can pretty much hold himself up.

He is my little love muffin, and he is getting too big too fast....although right at the moment we are not on speaking terms. I think he has found a game of trying to mess with my sleep patterns. Until right after the Superbowl this child would wake up once a night and I would end up sleeping on the couch for the rest of the night. Then the Superbowl, we stayed up late, he played until he was too exhausted to do anything else, and he went down hard for the night! I woke up the next morning more tired than I could ever imagine, this continued (to my surprise) for the next week and a half, just long enough for my body to adapt....then he got sick (again) and will not sleep through the night again unless he is in his swing and me on the couch. It is a bit weird because we tried moving the swing to the bedroom to see if that helps, but it didn't help, at all.

Anyway the eating has progressed, in fact he has moved onto the stage two foods, and we have realized that he just hates any of the green veggies (at least the mushed variety) and loves sweet potato's. Daycare has started to feed him regular cooked carrots, and he loves them. I guess he will not end up drinking formula at college.

About once a week Jenn, Gracie, Quinn and I go out for a walk (Jenn & Gracie go a lot more than once a week) and I think Quinn would enjoy it, but he falls asleep almost every time, I guess he does enjoy it enough that he falls asleep though. I am finding that I am enjoying living down here more now, than any other place we have lived (minus NY). The weather is nice most of the time, and now that I have finally started to make friends, it feels good.....that being said, I have now formally cursed myself and we will be moving next week (just kidding, we aren't really, not that I know of anyway :)) I can't wait until the summer when I can start to bring Quinn to the pool. I think he will enjoy that. I actually should start looking into going to a pool now.....

Thanks for reading, hopefully I will have new pictures and a new post following our vacation to NY.