Our Ornaments

One of my favorite Christmas traditions Ben and I have is telling the story of each of our ornaments as we decorate the tree. There may be 1 or 2 ornaments that I can't remember where or why we have them, but that's it. We have family ornaments that range from pieces of Ben's baby mobile, ones he made as a child, some from his dad's childhood, to ones my grandmother made in honor of each family member's birthday. We have travel ornaments from our international travels: France, England, Italy, Switzerland, and so on. Then there's the New Orleans ornaments- they are a group all their own! Let us not forget the Auburn ornament group! We have a "yearly" ornament group to commemorate, you guessed it, that year. And this year, we started a Quinn collection. He already has 4! As corny as it sounds, I really hope he enjoys the ornaments as much as we do! And that the three of us will have many new ornament stories throughout the years!

What a Great Surprise!

So...this morning I put Quinn down on the floor so he could stretch out and roll around- his favorite thing after eating. We think he "found" his voice last weekend, so the shrieks and bursts of laughter didn't surprise me. I gave him Sammy to play with and listened to the continued babbling. After a couple minutes of silence, I look over and this is what I found...

...a chubby little baby sleeping soundly while hugging Sammy!
And there he slept for 30 minutes!

Eskimo Kisses

Quinn is developing by leaps and bounds everyday! The other day I was in his room rocking him and I called out for Ben (can't remember why). Anyway, Quinn turned towards the door and waited to see Ben walk in! It was so cute! And remarkable!

Sweet Baby

Changes, Changes, and More Changes

Quinn is just over 3 months old and is behaving like a 4 month old. We are seeing beginning signs of teething. TONS of slobber, lots gnawing on his lovey, and practically eating his hands. He does not care for teething rings (warm or cold), but seems to really like sucking/gnawing clothe. So it looks like we'll go the wet wash clothe route.

There's no more laying him on his back. As soon as we do, he FLIPS (not rolls) right over! He's able to hold his head up and push up with his hands. Sounds advanced, doesn't it?
And he has discovered the "army crawl."

Ben and I were blessed with two weeks of the Q-man sleeping through the night. Then, last weekend he decided he didn't want to do that so much. I think he had several reasons: 1. MawMaw and PawPaw were here 2. He started big boy food- cereal! 3. We got off schedule/routine 4. He just likes to spice things up a bit. Last night, however, we got a FULL night plus some! He woke up around 5 am and nursed for a few minutes, then slept until 9 am!

Quinn is so alert and happy. He takes everything in carefully and seems to be a deep thinker. He's also a huge flirt. Smiles and cuts his eyes at everyone. The boy can work a crowd! He loves for us to read to him, and against Ben's wishes, he LOVES to watch tv- just cartoons and football. Seriously...if we are watching football, the boy will stop what he's doing (including eating) and watch! Oh yeah, and that video series Baby Einstein. You may have heard of it. It's like crack!

Our next check-up is January 2. I'm guessing Q will be 19 pounds and 24 inches long. Okay, gotta run..Master Quinn calls!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

It's Santa!

Today was a terrific day! Our neighborhood hosted "Snow Day" at the clubhouse. Quinn got to meet Santa; although he (Quinn, not Santa) was sound asleep. Even when we passed Santa the Big Q he didn't wake even a smidgen! We skipped the "sleigh" ride cause the line was too long, but we did enjoy some hot chocolate and swinging in the park. We didn't get to play in the snow because there were too many big kids! Maybe next year.

P.S. The tiger Quinn is holding is his "lovey," Sammy.