It's been so long ...

But you're still not getting a real post. Sorry to my one or two faithful followers. I was just previewing a new button and started looking at the pics of Quinn. So dang cute! Just wanted to take a minute to say how in love I am with my wonderful baby.

I wish I could write

I've been catching up on my blog reading today (when I checked yesterday, I had over 100 unread items in Reader and haven't even checked the private blogs yet). Sorry, not great blog posting today. Too many things that I have to get done and there's not time for things I'd like to get done.

Anyway, after reading what other people have to say, I'm feeling a little blah. Some people have such a gift with words. They can perfectly express what they're feeling and then get people to act on those words (thankfully the things I've been reading today have only encouraged me to do good things). I wish I had that talent. If given time, I can spew some academic junk onto a screen, but nothing that touches anyone. Even when I'm deeply moved and feel a lot of emotion about what I'm writing, it doesn't come out with all the power that I feel. I suppose that's okay. I have other talents. And for you religious folk, I don't think I'm breaking the tenth commandment--I wish I could write well , but I am not feeling covetous at all. I simply admire those who can. So anyway, thanks to all those who put words to the things I feel and make me want to be a better person!

A quick hello

I was planning to do much better at this blogging thing, but life is too busy. Quick update: Quinn in awesome. He's mastered the army crawl and is getting closer to big boy crawling. Yesterday we lowered his crib mattress because when I went to check on him he had pulled himself up and was looking over the rail. I am ordering his new car seat today because he's outgrown his infant seat.

Troy is loving football season and is gearing up for basketball to start next month. Sewing is my new hobby. Yesterday I finished a shopping cart cover for Quinn (because once the new car seat arrives I'll actually have to take him out of it once in a while). That's us in brief. Hopefully soon I'll have a chance to do some serious blogging, but until then, here's our cute boy.

This tells you how bad I've been--this pic is a month old. :(

Quinn's Surgery - With Pictures

I promised some pics from the event, so here goes: (I apologize now for the quality of the pictures. Most of the time a cell phone was the only thing we had handy, and that was the easiest way to get updates to nervous grandmas)

We stayed with Troy's sister in Gilbert, so the night before we took Quinn for his first swim, since he wouldn't be able to take a bath for the next two weeks, we figured we'd get him good and soaked.


We had to be at the surgery center at 6:30 a.m., so Quinn was still tired, hence the droopy eye.

We tried to get a picture of his little bum hanging out the back of his gown, but didn't do a very good job.

Just taking it all it. Such a cutie!

In Walgreen's afterward. So sleepy! Better than crying, for sure. When they let us to back to see him he was so cuddly, but REALLY heavy. There's a reason newborns aren't supposed to be 20 pounds.

Waking up the next morning. He was so drowsy, but so good. He didn't have to wear pants or onesies for a week because the double diapers made him too big to fit in his clothes, so we have lots of belly-button shots. Good thing it's so cute!

Quinn spent the weekend sleeping and we spent it changing REALLY stinky diapers, fighting with him to take medicine, taking temperatures, fighting with him to eat, waking up at all hours and discovering how funny 30 Rock is.

After five days with his sister, we decided to have mercy on them and go home. Quinn really was very good, but hated his medicines and had absolutely no routine. He didn't nap and was a little more fussy than normal, every diaper change required two people and Troy had homework to do for his masters classes, so it was a rough week. We went back to Phoenix a week after his surgery to get the bandages removed, came home the next day and went back three days later to get the catheter out. I'll just say it was a lot of travelling and more work than I'm used to with my wonderfully good baby, and I hope I never have to do it again--although I probably will in January. Blah.

Quinn taking advantage of re-coup privileges.

So handsome. You can't help but love the kid.

How did this happen?!

This used to be my baby sleeping:

Now this is my baby sleeping:

How did he get to be so big? He sleeps like a little boy now and although it is super cute, I miss my baby!

Summer Update

I found my camera under the ottoman about 4 minutes after my last post, but then Quinn woke up and that was the end of that. But I feel it's necessary to cram the second half of our summer into one post (minus one or two events that warrant their own), so here goes:


Troy had a birthday! Woo-hoo. My sister made him a birthday hat that was too small, so Quinn got to wear it. Unfortunately it looked a little too much like a dunce cap.


For Quinn's six-month birthday we went to Fishlake to see my aunt and uncle and my dad took pictures of our little family. I will post more eventually, but our new header can from the shoot and he made us some awesome canvas prints that I still haven't hung up. Once I hang them, they will be the first things on our walls and we've live here for 9 months. Oops.


We also spent Quinn's six-month mark giving him solids for the first time. Clearly he was very excited.


He ate the cereal very well. Such a good boy.


Day two did not go so well because that was the same weekend he discovered he could blow raspberries, so he did that all through dinner. Look closely at his arm and you can get an idea of what he and I looked like once dinner was over.


Quinn's had blocked tear ducts forever, so we spend a lot of time laughing at his pirate look. A side effect of one of his post-surgery medications was dry eyes, so he had a break for a week and a half. Once we took him off the meds, I fully expected him to gunk up again, but they stayed clear. Hooray! At least until two days ago when one got bad again. Oh well, at least we know there's hope.

Just evidence that Quinn's parents are easily entertained.

Where is my camera? I used it yesterday to take pictures of Quinn watching TV, but now I can't find it. You may never get a real post. :(