ten months

We are in the double digits!  Quinn turned 10 months old this week!

 

 

  

Quinn has changed so much in the past month.  This is what she has been up to...

Pulling herself up from sitting to standing.  It was quite a surprise to look in the monitor one day to see her standing up, while banging her hand on the side of the crib and squealing.  Recently, she found the monitor and pulled it off the side of the crib.  It was pretty funny to watch her staring into it.

Eating three meals a day.  One day, Quinn seemed very interested in finger foods.  So, I gave her more of a variety, and ever since she has been eating primarily whatever we eat--just cut up into smaller pieces.  She also transitioned to three 8 oz. bottles at each meal time, with snacks and water in between. 

She still only has her bottom two teeth, but we can see the top two are coming in!

Speaking of water, Quinn also learned how to drink from a sippy cup.  She used to just naw on it.  One day I drank from the sippy cup to show her how to use it--not really expecting her to understand--then she took it from me and started to drink from it on her own!

Quinn continues to sleep through the night.  The time change this month didn't throw us off too bad.  We tried to prep her a week before by holding her evening bottle off a little later each night.  After about a week, she started to sleep a little later.  But, it has still taken some time to get her totally adjusted to the time change. 

Quinn takes two naps a day.  She consistently takes a nap at 9am.  Although, the length of her morning nap seems to be getting shorter.  Then she takes another nap around 1 pm.  This nap has been all over the place lately.  Sometimes she plays in her crib for 30 minutes before going to sleep, and other times she goes right down. 

We had fun dressing Q up as a little indian princess for Halloween.  We trick or treated for about 15 minutes just for the sake of it.  She totally rocked her costume! :)

Quinn continues to come alive around other kids.  Every time she sees another kid at the store or when we are with friends, she starts squealing and smiling like crazy!  You can't really see her bubbliness from these pictures, but it definitely comes out in person. 

Now that Quinn is on the move (and also aware of the stairs...), we try to get out a lot more during the day to keep her entertained.  We are always looking for little things to do between and after naps.     It's been a lot of fun!  Quinn brings so much JOY to our lives!

RUFFLED ZIPPER POUCHES

I just added these zipper pouches to Lemon Bee.  Check them out!

a day in the life

I thought it would be fun to document what a day looks like around here.  Everyone says "long days, short years," and I think it would be fun to have this post to look back on in a few years.  So here goes nothing!

6:10 AM  My alarm goes off.  I slowly get out of bed, brush my teeth, and head down stairs to make coffee and a little breakfast.  By about 6:30, I sit down to get caffeinated and do my devotions before Quinn gets up.  She usually starts to wake up around 6:30, but is content to play in her crib until I get her at 7 am. 

7:00 AM Quinn gets up for the day!  She drinks an 8 oz. bottle and is a happy camper.  I change her diaper and get her dressed.  We "chat" and give each other kisses, and then I bring her downstairs for "independent play time/squeeze in some time to finish my devotions and wake up."  Q plays with her toys in her playpen for about 20 minutes and nibbles on some cheerios.

Somewhere in between here I get dressed and put on make up and check my e-mail.

8:00 AM Breakfast.  Quinn is pretty much done with baby food.  Last week she just totally moved on to finger foods!  This girl is hungry too.  I am making full on meals for her.  A slice of buttered toast, scrambled eggs, cut up fruit...it's an event.

8:30 AM Walk.  At this point, I can't wait to get outside of the house.  So, we always try to go on a walk, even if it's only 10 minutes.

9:00 AM Nap.  Beacon snuck into Quinn's room as I was putting her down, and as I was searching for him under her crib, Quinn pulled herself up on the side of the crib and started laughing at me.  It was really cute.  During nap, I usually update our blog, respond to e-mails, work on Lemon Bee, and don't do laundry like I should.

11:00 AM Quinn gets up from nap and drinks a bottle.  Sometimes she wakes up earlier and just plays until I get her at 11.  When I walked into her room, look at who I found sleeping on the changing pad....

Since we had no pressing errands or places to be, we ate a quick lunch and went on a long walk.  We are getting some more cooler days lately in Florida...which it means it was in the mid 70s, low 80s :)

1:00 PM Nap.  After about 45 minutes of Quinn messing around in her crib (in which I was making banana chocolate chip muffins--GF), followed by her learning how to stand up in it...I relented to getting her out.

                                     

2:30 PM Quinn is totally happy with skipping her nap, and learned how to climb ALL of the stairs in our house...supervised, of course!

3:00 PM Quinn drinks a bottle and goes down for a nap.  Success!  I worked on Lemon  Bee, cleaned up around the house, and changed clothes since we had plans to go to dinner with Daddy!

5:30 PM Quinn finally woke up from her nap. I couldn't believe how long she slept!  Climbing the stairs before nap time must have helped!  We quickly got our things together and went to Chipotle to meet Matt for dinner.

7:00 PM Came home from dinner and got Quinn changed into her PJs, read her some books, and fed her a bottle.

 

All done!  Time to relax!

This was definitely a more quiet day for us.  Usually we have some sort of activity during the day.  But, hopefully I will enjoy looking back and remembering our simple days together!



early bird gets the worm!

Check out this little sale going on at Lemon Bee.  Ends Wednesday!

halloween 2013

It was so fun to get into Halloween this year with little Quinn.  We dressed her up as an Indian Princess.  (Thank you, Pinterest!)  I made her outfit, and to our dismay Beacon really loved the tutu.  He ended up eating some of the tulle and got really sick.  He wasn't eating or going the bathroom, so we had to feed him cat food with a syringe (eeww) so that he would go to the bathroom.  Well, thankfully he did...5 minutes before we were having friends over for dinner.  Double ewww.  Let's just say we confirmed that he did indeed eat part of Quinn's tutu.  And, he is feeling much better now. 

We really enjoyed our church's fall festival.  There were 21 bounce houses, food trucks, and "trunk or treat."  The weather was perfect too!

The picture below is from last year with my friend Amy.  Our girls are 4 days apart :)

This year was much better, in my opinion!



My little princess.

We went to a few houses on Halloween night.  Quinn executed grabbing the candy out of the candy bowls very well.  Her favorite?  Nerds.  The best rattle ever.

 

Hope you had a happy Halloween.  Now, let the official holiday season begin!!