2 Month Checkup

Quinn had his 2 month check up yesterday afternoon. I can't believe my little Quinners is 2 mos old already! He just seems so little and young to me still, but when I tell people he is 2 mos old it just seems TOO old. I don't like that. Call me crazy, I know he is still a baby, but all you mothers understand...he is growing too fast!

Here are his stats:

Head: 15 3/4 (50%)

Weight: 11lbs (30%)

Height: 23 3/4 (75%) but this isn't too accurate because the lady couldn't get his leg to stretch straight

The Dr said he was the length of a 5 month old which goes to show his measurement above really isn't accurate at all. He couldn't emphasize enough how big he was. So looks like we have another tall one on our hands. Just like his brother.

He is turning out to be such a good baby. The colic is fading. It's not every night like it used to be. I think he also gets overstimulated very easily so we have to be careful there isn't TOO much going on around him.

My favorite time with him...well I have 2 right now. First...when I nurse him, he has just started to look up at me and gaze into my eyes. It's like he is connecting with me. He has done that before, just looked at me. Now though, he just stares, doesn't look away for a good minute or so while I just talk to him. I love it. It's special time. Second...right after he is done eating. He is SO happy. He just smiles and smiles and coos and talks. For a good half hour. (during the day) and its so much fun. I play with his legs and shake his legs and bend em and its like he knows I am playing with him. He just smiles and smiles when I do it.

He has started to suck his thumb. Now that he has more control over his arms, sometimes he will spit his pacifier out and replace it with his thumb. He is turning out like his mommy! :)

He is starting to soothe himself to sleep during the day. We put him in his bassinet, put his pacifier in, cover him up and turn on the vibrating motion and sometimes he goes right to sleep. Sometimes he just talks and squeals for a little bit. Don't get me wrong, sometimes all he wants is to be held as well. He is getting there though.

Night sleep? It's pretty good. He wakes up 2 times still. Im not complaining though cause he still goes right back to sleep after he eats.

Kasen still continues to be a good big brother. He is SO incredibly helpful. He loves to talk to him and make him smile. It just makes Kasen's day when Quinn will smile at him. It's cute.

He really is a good, happy baby. He just makes me smile looking at him. Im so happy. He is such a blessing and we are grateful for him in our lives and family.

Name Letters

Here is a picture of the letters I made for Kasens room when he was 1, and for Quinns room just a couple weeks ago. They were plain wooden letters that I altered using scrapbook stuff. Here you go Anthea! Let me know if you have any questions.

Im not sure why this pic turned out sideways...sorry!

Quinns Blessing

Last weekend we were fortunate enough to have my family and Jeremy's family come out to visit us, see our new house, and be here for Quinn's baby blessing.



The weekend was definately too short and everyone went home way too fast but it was still so nice to have people come visit and see where we live and what we have been up to since we moved here in April.



The blessing was very special and it was a great day. Jeremy did a great job, and we were able to have lots of family participate in the blessing as well. We are so grateful to everyone who was able to come. It was SO nice to have you here. PLEASE come visit us again soon. We get lonely here in AZ by ourselves!



Jeremy's sisters...Megan (left) and Katie (right) painting pictures with Kasen

Jeremy's parents...Lyle and Jerralyn with Kasen and Quinn

Everyone, minus my brother Greg who was flying in that night, out to dinner at Arriba.

Sunday. The day of the blessing. 8-2-09 . Somehow though, I failed to get pictures of just Quinn alone in his blessing outfit.

All the family that came for the blessing. From Cali, Washington and Utah.

Thanks again to my family AND friends for coming and making that day so special for us and Quinn.

Are you related?

Krista and Isobel (3 wks), Brittany and Quinn (5wks), Claudia and Bella (8wks), Alex, Reese and Everett (7wks)

While I was in Cali, I met up with a few of my friends from church who all happened to have babies around the same time Quinn was born.



We met at Panera Bread and the looks we received were comical. People kept coming up to us admiring all the newborns. They asked us if we were related. I mean really? Check out my blonde hair. My fair skin. Do we LOOK related? Not so much. We were even asked if we all planned to get pregnant together. Seriously? I wish it were that easy to say ok friends! Let's do it. Wouldn't it be fun? Let's all have babies together. Starting next month we are all going to get pregnant ok? Great! See you in 9 months. Once again...NOT so much. Nonetheless, it was really funny.



I can understand the stares and questions. The fact that all of us have babies within a couple weeks apart is really amazing. I am glad I was able to meet up with them and spend some time with them and talk about the sleep we aren't getting, breastfeeding and other baby stories together.



Let's do it again!

Smiles

Quinn has been smiling for a couple weeks now but I was convinced he didn't like my voice. He was ALWAYS smiling for my mom. Big open mouth smiles. I tried and tried and if I tried long and hard enough would get a little wimpy smile. Then pass him to my mom and instantly she would get the big genuine grins. Sad. Well this morning I was on a mission. I wanted to catch his first smiles BY ME on camera. I tried and tried and didn't succeed. Finally I decided to change him into his clothes for the day and change his diaper. I left him in his diaper for a minute and just talked to him. I tried a VERY obnoxiously high pitch voice and it worked! I got real smiles from him. He officially likes his mommy now. I am embarrassed to talk like that in front of anyone, but hey! I got smiles!!

Rolling Around

Thought rolling around in my head today:



**Back to reality, I still live in AZ. Even though I felt like I had never left when I went back home to visit, I realized quickly when I woke up this morning in AZ, that Ih ad left, MOVED and don't live there anymore.



**It was nice to go back to sleep this morning after Quinns 6am feeding. Usually Kasen is here waking up right when I finish. But as nice as it was, I miss Kasen.



**Why won't he stop crying? He is just overly tired and fights sleep so much! I forgot how hard a newborn is!



**What's for dinner tonight? I am officially dieting now that I am back from vacation. I want to lose about 10 more lbs to be at my goal weight.



**He is finally asleep in my arms but I don't want to move for fear of waking him up and starting the whole scream fest all over again.



**I miss my mom.



**We have a ton of family from both sides coming into town on Friday for Quinn's blessing and I don't know how to entertain that many people. Or feed that many mouths!



**I need to put new pictures up in my house. They are all so outdated from when Kasen was like 1.5....NONE of us look like those pictures anymore. Well maybe Bailey does. That's it though.



**Mastitis is NOT for the weak. Or for those who have trouble taking pills. 4 times a day for 10 days. BLAH.

**Its already 109 out and its 4pm. Still a few more degrees to go til the heat of the day. Thanks heavens for AC.

**I saw a few ants on my counter and now I can't stop itching....

**baby is crying again. I guess I have no more thoughts right now.

Photo Session

I had my friend Alex come over a few days after we got to Cali to take some pics of my boys and some newborn pics of Quinn. She said she needed more experience and wanted some more pics for her portfolio. That being said, I wasn't sure what to expect. I had seen some of her work and really liked it and that's why I chose her. She came over and we got to business. She took about 100 pictures and I couldn't wait to get them back.

Well let me just say...it was worth the wait! I am ridiculously in love with them. I am absolutely please with the way they turned out. She edited a few and some of them didn't even need that. She did such a great job. I highly recommend her. Click on her name above and it takes you to her photography blog where you can see more samples of her work.

Anyway...here are some of the pictures I love the most. There might be a lot, it's hard to choose.