Playtime with Q

Quinn has such a personality. She is in a good mood pretty much all the time and is super easy. It makes me a little nervous that Leo won't be so easy going and I won't know what to do! 

Every morning when I go in to get her up she has the biggest smile on her face and says "morning." It is the best part of the day (and also the worst because then we are running around like crazy to get to daycare and work on time and all I want to do is stay home and snuggle.....). 

She loves to facetime and always "plays" with my mom when we talk to her. The other day she wanted to take grandma and grandpa for a ride in her stroller. She is also a fan of bunny ears and likes to wear them around. Quinn would yell down to the phone and say "ready" and then push them across the room. It was cute and she did this for about 15 minutes. 

Right now Minnie Mouse and Quinn's build a bear, creatively known at our house as "bear" are the most popular toys. She carries them around and needs them to go everywhere with her. This day she was making sure they were getting a snack and a drink while I got breakfast ready. I love how she had to have bibs on them also. 

If there is anything happening with food, Sammy isn't too far away. This is probably why he has gotten extremely fat since we moved to Utah and Quinn started to eat table foods. 

She is very much like Dave in a lot of ways but one of them is her love for technology. She LOVES playing on our phones, the computer, Ipads, etc. There are times that I will drive the Jetta (which does not have a DVD player in it) and she refuses to get in the car in the morning because she wants to watch Mater in the Pilot. Her ability to navigate to Netflixs is scary! Tonight she grabbed my phone and Dave's phone and put them both on Netflix but on different shows, one on Mickey Mouse and one on Curious George. She also thinks everything is a touch screen and tries to "swipe" on my camera when she is ready to change to a new picture. I think she is going to be very good with technology! 

This is random (but it makes me smile and I just had to share..), every time she turns on a light switch and the light comes on she yells "ta-da." She is so fun and we love her to pieces. 

Playing is good, life is good. 

Snowy Saturday

Last Saturday we got a good amount of snow and spent the day getting Quinn's new room ready and watching football. Dave went out to shovel the driveway (I won't let him get a snowblower... manual labor is good for him! LOL)  and I took Quinn and Charlie out to join. Charlie LOVES the snow and he loves to chase after Dave when he is shoveling. Quinn kept taking her hat and mittens off and running away from me. I have no idea how she wasn't freezing! 

Dave spent most of Saturday painting Quinn's new furniture. We got a toddler bed from a friend and are using Dave's childhood dresser that has been painted before. It is looking super cute and I can't wait until it all gets done. I am hoping we will have it finished this weekend. Quinn likes to walk in the room and she says "pretty." I am hoping she still likes the room when we move her in there and the new toddler bed! Fingers crossed this goes smoothly. 

Lazy days are good, life is good. 

Fun Fall

I can't believe it is December and Christmas is 3 weeks away! Fall went super fast and we had a lot of fun. One of the highlights for me was a weekend when we went to Park City and then spent a day in Salt Lake going to the Zoo and seeing Disney on Ice. I wasn't sure how Quinn would do with Disney on Ice but she is obsessed with Mickey and Minnie right now so we thought we would give it a try. She loved it and I loved watching her enjoy herself. She stood on our laps and clapped. When Minnie went behind the curtain she said and signed "more, more." As the show went on she was getting super tired but stayed up the whole time! As we were leaving she said "bye- bye Minnie." In March Disney on Ice will be back and it is a Princess theme so we are already planning on going to that one. (The pictures aren't the best quality, they are from my phone and when I enlarge them they don't look great...). 

Loving on Mickey and trying to stay awake. Of course she had to wear a Minnie shirt (thanks grandma!). 

Before the show we stopped at Build a Bear because Quinn had a gift card from her birthday. She LOVED making this princess bear and would not leave until bear had shoes. (Quinn is currently loving boots and wants to wear them all the time and comments when other people are wearing boots). The song she picked to put inside her bear is "Frosty the Snowman." She loves this bear and takes it everywhere, she also makes sure it is always wearing shoes. 

This was at the Park City Museum. I can't believe how big she looks here! I love those curls and her green eyes. 

Time is flying and we are now getting ready for Christmas. Thanksgiving was fun, we went to Denver and had a great time. I didn't take any pictures that trip so I am waiting for some pictures to be sent to me and I will do a post. Quinn loved playing with her cousins and we enjoyed spending time with family. It is nice that we have family we can drive to! 

Leo is growing and moving like crazy. We had our last visit with the specialist this week and we are all clear to no longer go back! In case you missed it, we had a little scare with this pregnancy. A child I see for speech therapy has a virus called CMV. This isn't a big deal at all and if you get it, you will not get sick or anything. A normal person will just build antibodies and that is all. However, if you have never had this and get it when you are pregnant, it can cause harm to the baby. I also learned during this that 1 in 4 children under the age of 3 in daycare currently are "shedding" the virus so I could have got exposed to it from Quinn also. 

 I had blood work done and it came back that I did have it but I also had antibodies to it so it was unclear if it was a new or old case. Many children with hearing loss have had or have CMV so I was sure I would have already been exposed to this and it would be no harm to Leo. However, we were sent to a specialist to make sure everything was okay. It was very hard waiting to get the ultrasound to see how he was developing. The specialist ordered a more complex blood test and then did an ultrasound. There was one part on the ultrasound that was borderline normal and could be caused by CMV so for a week we anxiously waited the results of the second blood test. It came back in the gray zone- the results could not tell if it was new or old (we wanted old because then I had it before pregnancy and Leo would be fine). Then we had to wait for another week to get into the doctor and do amniocentesis. Luckily the ultrasound that day looked completely normal and the procedure went very smooth. We got the results back a few days later that Leo did not have CMV. It was such a relief!! It was a very stressful month waiting for all the test and not knowing if Leo was healthy or not. I am so thankful for this healthy growing baby and I can't wait to meet him! Now in the future we know that I have had it so for future pregnancies this is not something we will need to worry about. 

I am almost 32 weeks and he is measuring a little big so we will see if he will be a January or February baby. My sister is due 3 weeks after me, so it is going to be a very exciting couple of weeks for our families. It is going to be hard to be far away from family and not having them here to help and also not being there to see my new niece or nephew. Thank goodness for Facetime! 

This last picture just makes me smile. She loves hats and makes sure she always has a hat when we leave, she also needs minnie mouse, mickey or bear to go in the car with us. We were going to get Charlie from the boarder after Thanksgiving and she stopped on the way to the car to give Minnie a ride. That horse I found at a thrift store for $6!! It is going to be repainted and made girly for Christmas. The good thing about this age is that she has seen a lot of her Christmas presents but she quickly forgets about them.  

That is a quick update on us. 

Kids are good, life is good! 

Daddy's boots

Quinn currently loves shoes. She is very picky about what shoes she wears and will throw a fit if she doesn't have on the ones she wants. Earlier this week I sent her to daycare in shoes that she doesn't typically wear to school and she spent the day throwing fits and taking them off. She even put them in the trash a few times. When I am getting ready in the morning she will bring me shoes from my closet and say "momma shoes." Today she was playing on the steps (I know, I know.. not the safest but she likes to turn the  landing light on and off and I was sitting right there) and when I looked over I found her in Dave's boots. It was the cutest so I had to grab my camera and take some pictures.

Lazy Sundays are good, Life is good. 

Trip Home

A few weeks ago Quinn and I went home for a week. It was such a fun trip and much too short. We aren't going back until after the baby is born so that made leaving really hard this time. It is also crazy to think that next time I am home I will have 2 kids and so will my sister!
Quinn and Nolan were so cute together. They always take a few days to get used to each other and he only tackled her a couple of times. They are so funny to watch together.
We had a packed week which included Nolan's birthday party, going to a pumpkin patch and attending a friends retirement ceremony. It was nice that Dave was able to come in for a few days and spend some time at home also.
Here are some pictures of our trip.

Milton's for breakfast- who wouldn't be smiling?? 

Getting ready for Nolan's party 

She loves her pa-paw

Just comparing apps :) 

We had a great time and are very happy that we got to see so many of our family and friends. The trip was too short like always! Next time we are home we will be a family of 4! I can't even imagine how that plane ride is going to be. 

Ohio is good, life is good! 

Evening Chat with Grandma

Quinn loves phones (maybe we are on ours too much?!) and loves to facetime with my mom. Lately every time we facetime her, Quinn asks "where's papaw?" It is too cute. Today while talking to my mom Quinn decided she wanted to sit grandma in the chair next to her and have a little chat. She then decided grandma should ride down the car track and put the phone at the top and said "ready, go!" I love technology, it really makes being away from family so much easier. It is cute to see Quinn "playing" with grandma just like she was here. We are super excited to go home next week and Quinn and grandma can really play together.

Quinn's new favorite thing to do is play daycare. It took me a couple of times of her doing this to figure out what was going on. She takes out garbage bags and lays them on the floor, then puts her dolls down, covers them with blankets and then sits between them and pats their backs. At daycare, they take naps on the floor and the teachers will pat the kids' backs when they don't go to sleep right away. She will do this forever- just moving them around and covering them up. It is so cute!! 

Playing is good, life is good. 

A little update

Quinn was playing so cute today and I decided to get the camera out and take some pictures. She is getting so big, so fast and maybe it is the hormones but it makes me cry every time I think about it! She is so fun right now and talking so much!!! I can't even begin to tell you how many words she has but she is putting together 2 and 3 word phrases all the time. I love watching her language grow and how she learns new things everyday. Her current favorites include: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (thank goodness we are now past "Maters Tall Tales"- I don't know how much more I could take), princesses, coloring (on paper, chairs, toys, floors, doors, etc.), bath time, Ring Around the Rosie, baby dolls and jumping on the couch.

She is also a fan of belly buttons and loves to lift up your shirt and push your belly button then lift up her shirt and show you hers. She will lift up my shirt and kiss my belly and say "baby", it is the cutest! 

Today she was loving this green dog that talks and sings songs. She was putting it in her stroller and pushing it around. Then she found my sunglasses and had to wear those. I swear she is going to be a fashionista. 

Here are pictures of our playtime today: 

Quinn is also a fan of the dogs. I think she likes Charlie more. She is always pulling at Sammy and trying to hurt him. With Charlie she will yell his name all the time and give him kisses before we leave in the morning. I think I yell at the dogs too much because she will also do her share of yelling at them and telling them they are "bad." I love how she tells them to sit and how she likes to climb on top of Charlie to get onto the couch. Sammy was not interested in getting his picture taken (probably because most times he is around Quinn she is trying to rip his ear off). 

Life in general is good. Dave is really busy with work but doing lots of great things. I am busy at work and trying to get back into the swing of things after having all summer off. I think I am already in maternity mode even though I still have 4 more months (oops!). Fall is starting to arrive in Utah and it is beautiful. We have a lot of things we want to do with Quinn this fall and it will be fun to see how she reacts to everything. We are going to be in Ohio for my nephew's birthday party and I can't wait to see everybody. 

Baby boy is growing and I am feeling great. Feeling pretty emotional some days and having a hard time sleeping already but overall feeling great! At my last ultrasound baby boy was measuring a little ahead of schedule so we will see if he comes early or is just big! We still don't have a name and we aren't even really close to a name to be honest. I have started to get things together slowly and have a few things for the nursery. I am 21 weeks today so we need to start getting some things ready because with all the holidays coming up, he is going to be here before we know it! 

Family is good, life is good!