Memorial Weekend & Watermelon

This last weekend Quinn, Cheyla and I went to Nana & Papas house for the night.  Quinn did awesome on the car rides there and back- no crying!  He had a good visit with Nana, Papa and the dogs.  He liked to pet the dogs through the pack-n-play netting while he sat in there playing with his toys.  :)

Petting Bella

Quinn w/Nana

Quinn sitting in Nana's chair

While we were gone Daddy and Ronin got to go to the boat house for the night and fish and take the boat out.  Sounds like they had fun :)  On Monday we went to the gym to workout and go swimming.  Ronin got about 90 minutes of swimming in - he's doing amazing, loves swimming under water, I'm shocked at how far he's come!   Quinn and I jogged the track for a while and joined them.  Even Quinn is getting better with the water, although he wants to grab things under the water and doesn't realize his nose/mouth will go under when he does.    We had a lot of fun though!

After we did some grocery shopping we came home to eat some dinner- I gave Quinn a piece of watermelon in his little mesh "fruit" feeder - he LOVED it, he couldn't get enough of it and kept slurping up the juice and cried when I took it away to feed him real food.  He's doing so good liking most of the fuits and veggies we give him. 

Eating watermelon in his fruit feeder

slurping his watermelon

Rory and I started watching a show called "the Killing" which isn't really very scary - but we put headphones on Ronin and let him watch Curious George while we watched some of our show - He's pretty cute in headphones!

We are going to try to get a smaller outdoor pool this summer to lounge in when we aren't at the river.  Ronin is pretty excited and I think it will help him practice swimming/diving even more.  Plus it will be nice to cool off when it's super hot outside :)

Not much more going on this week... 

Lot's of love,
C

"Dadda" days

Quinny had his 6 month checkup last Monday.  He had three shots, the first shot he kind of frowned for, but the next two he wailed about until I picked him up, and he said in a very angry/sad voice "DUH" and then he was over it.   After we got home he decided it was time to start saying "dadadadadadadada" over and over...  So as much as I tried to coherce "mama" as his first word, dada came out instead... my consolation is that he doesn't know what it means and just likes to hear himself talk... otherwise I'm sure he would have said mama first! haha

I got the "walker" out this week so Quinn could be in the kitchen with me when I'm baking/cooking/cleaning - I didn't expect him to actually move the thing yet - but he's all over the place already!  I guess he got a taste of freedom and he's going with it!

Quinn in his walker

Showing me his "sweet" face

Ronin is quite the comedian lately.  I find myself laughing at the most unusual conversations and statements... for example I told him to quit trying to kick me in the butt and his response was "but my foot is your butt's best friend!"   

He's actually doing well going to sleep in his own bed lately.  We had to put our foot down and have a strict "3 books and lights out" rule at bedtime...  and it has to be me reading the last 1-2 books or he'll guilt daddy into staying in his room until he falls asleep.  He says things like "But daddy, I haven't gotten to spend much time with you lately!"  or "I just want to snuggle because I love you".  Which are both heartbreaking to hear, but he knows it will turn into daddy falling asleep in his bed with him... tricky little guy!  Talk about playing the heart strings!   The other day he told me something like that and I wasn't falling for it - and he commented "but doesn't that just rip your heart out mommy?" haha  too smart for his own good!

Rory and I were able to go to a friends party this last weekend.  She turned it into a "prom" night since her best friend never got to go to her own prom.  It was loads of fun and much better than our real prom!

Rory and me :)

My BFF Tracy :)

Those teeth again!

Quinny swinging for the first time!  He loved it!

Goofball!

Eating his foot

6 Months and iPhone happiness!

Quinn is now 6 months old!  He's wearing 9-12 month clothes, such a big boy!  I can't bring myself to wean him of nursing yet... he's such a cuddle-bug and I will miss having him so close :)  Maybe just one more month...

About to eat the ball

Two boys in a wagon

Ronin is such a good big brother :)

Cutie-pie - he wouldn't smile for me though!

Just chillin'

Not much has been going on around the house.  We went to the river a bit last weekend to enjoy the sunshine.  Ronin never wants to leave though...  Quinn started eating bananas last week, he thinks they are too sweet first thing in the morning, but once he warms up to them he seems to love them :)

On Mothers day Rory made us french toast for breakfast, we all went swimming at the gym, and then we came home and had Mike, Shelley and Sean over for a barbecue.  It was a nice day :)  I also got an iPhone for Mothers day!  I'm so in-love with my new phone!  It's the best gift :)   We got it from a used cell-phone store for fairly cheap and we switched our plan to a pay-as-you-go Tmobile plan with unlimited minutes/text and web so we could avoid the overage charges we were getting with Verizon, and it doesn't cost us $30 extra to have a "smart" phone...   So I'm super happy!

Ronin is doing awesome at swimming!  I was with him yesterday and he says "let's go underwater and wave at each other!"  So I did, and he did exactly that with a big smile on his face!  I'm so proud of him!  Once he got over his fear of water he seems a bit fearLESS now! 

So now summer has started and I suspect we'll be doing a lot more sun-roasting activities... My goal is to keep Quinn out of the sun- in the shade all summer to protect his fair little skin...  poor guy has my skin tone.  hehe

Lots of Love,

C