X-Mas Eve

Quinn and Gavin had loads of fun today. We went to the park and Gavin had a blast just rolling around in the grass while Quinn hit as many baseballs that Daddy would pitch him. After dinner Quinn and Gavin went outside to sprinkle the raindeer food that Grandma Mary sent them to feed Santa's reindeer. Quinn decided that the lit ornament reindeer needed some food too so he put some food in the palm of his hand and acted as though they were eating the food out of it. It was very cute. Well we can now add the phrase "that's awesome" to Quinns ever expanding vocabulary as well as "I'm proud of you". Tonight at dinner Quinn leaned over and put his head on his Dad's shoulder and said, "I'm proud of you Daddy". It's never a dull moment with the Quinster Finster around!!

"SANTA'S COMING"

Quinn and Gavin have really enjoyed the weeks leading up to X-Mas. Being so far away gifts find their way to our doorstep so when we pull into the driveway in the evening Quinn goes Bizerk when he sees a package (s) at the door. And while Quinn is in full gift opening mode, Gavin would rather just sit on the packages and play with the discarded paper his brother has just tore through. Quinns new tag phrase is "that's my favorite". with each item he opens it becomes his new favorite thing. He's especially fond of the #7 Clausen jersey that aunt hilary sent him. he'd wear it every day to school if we'd let him. pretty soon he'll have one for every day of the week with the #3 he already had, and the #83 from Doug and Robyn, and now the #7 from aunt hilary. add that to the urlacher jersey and the cubs jersey and he's a walking billboard for the local sports store. 3 days until x-mas and we got our first frost of the year! our blood must be definitely thinning because there was no way we were going anywhere when we say frost on the windshield. Heck, we don't own a scrapper any more to clean it off! but by 2:00 it was back up to 65 so we braved the conditions and ran some errands :)

Flying Kites & Touching Turkeys

I bought a kite for Quinn along time ago, last weekend it was actually windy enough to fly it he thought it was pretty cool. The other picture is of Quinn wanting to touch the Turkey on Thanksgiving, who knows why but he asked to touch it!

Attempting to take Christmas Card Pictures

We were trying to take Christmas card pictures, but could not get bothe of them to smile at the camera at the same time. I thought these were still cute!

Gavin's First Fight with the Table

SO Monday we dropped the boys off at school, I get a call about an hour later, that Gavin fell into the table and has a black eye. Well as you can see, he lost! The poor child has a completely swollen eye and looks very painful, however it doesn't seem to bother him. He seems to be doing fine now. Good thing we already got the Christmas pictures!

It has been a while

Uncle Rudy was here this past week visiting, Quinn and Uncle Rudy had lots of fun,one day they went to Walmart and bought a baseball back stop, a metal baseball bat, spider man and many other exciting this. Uncle Rudy took Quinn the next day to see the BEE Movie which unlce RUdy said the whole time Quinn was asking him when it was going to be done! I think it might be a whilt before Uncle Rudy decides to have kids, I think he got his fill for awhile, He couldn't understand why Quinn would not take a nap!!! And was wakingup each day at 7am! Anyways we went to see Zoo Lights, which is pretty fun to do, the Zoo here is all lite up with Christmas Lights, etc.. Animals. Now we are getting ready for Santa to come. Quinn keeps telling us the only thing he wants for christmas is M&M's. Shouldn't be hard to please him! We went to get the boys Christmas pictures taken it actually turned out ok this year! The cards are on their way! Quinn is really excited Mimi and Papa Joe are coming at the end of the month, he can't wait he keeps telling us in 3 weeks! It really likes when people come, I think he gets sick of his mom and dad all the time!

Getting Started Early

Tonight we were sitting on the couch and noticed that Gavin was wanting to play baseball, imagine that! It was pretty cute Quinn was pitching the ball and hitting the bat with the ball so it seemed as though Gavin was hitting it. Quinn thought it was sooo funny.

Quinn in Gavins halloween Costume

Quinn would not leave this bear costume alone, so finally he put it on. As you can see a little too small for him, which he did not care, we had a heck of a time getting it off him, that will be the last time we let him do that

Playing Nice with Daddy

Over the weekend Quinn and Gavin decided that

when one wants to ride the horse so does the other one. Sorry Daddy you happen to be the horse!

The Joys of Daycare

Quinn came home today like this. Obviously unsupervised for a period of time today. It nice to see all the money we pay is going to good markers!

More Pumpkins

Pumpkins

We went and got pumpkins today! What a great idea someone had developing these things you stick in the pumpkin to make a face. Thanks Doug & Robin for those!

This is quinn,i just typed that!q12qd uh, sorry, quinn.

Ready for Halloween

As you can see we are ready for trick & treat! Mimi and Papa Joe sent these two their costumes! Thanks! Quinn loves his costumes and runs around the house like spider man! Gavin is a bear, so fitting considering his fat little cheeks!

Gavin's Walking & Quinn's Booty Dance

So Gavin is walking really well as you can see in the pictures! Quinn's booty dance is something he does everytime he caughts the football he runs around screaming touchdown and then does this ridiculous booty dance! (As seen here in the 4th picture. )




Not much else we are going to do pumpkins this weekend. Gavin was sick today and we had to pick him up from daycare, however when we got home he seemed to be fine. He is getting some of his back teeth in, so we think it is his teeth!

Best Buds

Quinn and Gavin are really learning to exist in the same house. Gavin is walking now, he barely crawls at all anymore. He has been a little sick this last week, ruuning nose, cough...

Quinn is talking more and more everyday! He wants to be Spider Man for Halloween. WE have yet to find the spider man costume in his size. We did not think he even knew who spider man was, but we bought popcorn once that had spider man on the box!

I think everyone knows that we have about a 45 minute drive to work everday, so we have become pretty resourceful driving and entertaining two kids. Gavin got fussy a couple of weeks ago, we tired everything music, singing, food, drink, nothing seem to work. Mike decieded to turn on his irish music pretty much to cover up the crying and you can not imagine what happened next. Gavin was happy as could be popping his head up and down. And Quinn was singing along.

We went to these parent teacher conferences last night at day care. Both of the boys are doing well developementally. Both of there teachers stated that they both love to eat. They have to limit Quinn to only two helpings of lunch and snacks. Mike and I will have to get second jobs to feed these two once they get to be in junior high!!!

Quinn likes to keep his mom and dad on track and says at dinner time, day prayers. It is pretty cute, but he can not understand why gavin gets to keep eating during prayers.

Da Bears