Quinn is 5 Months

Our Quinn is almost 5 months old already.  She's our little giant.  At her 4 month doctor appt, she weighed in at 17lbs 12 oz...that's the 99th percentile (and 94th in height)!  She's such a happy and easy-going baby.  She loves to give a big open mouth smile whenever someone engages with her.  At about 3 1/2 months, she started squealing, screeching, and laughing super loud.  Makes me laugh every time she does it.  I love how excited she gets every time I get her out of bed in the morning and after nap (see here).  She is completely enamored by her sister, always watching her and smiling at her.  She has the same beautiful eyelashes as Natalie and the prettiest deep blue eyes.  She's a great sleeper.  She's almost rolling over (check it out) and I know it won't be long until she's sitting up.  It all happens so fast.  

Here's our sweet girl...

Since I haven't posted in a while, here are a few older pictures of Quinn...

Here she was at almost 4 months when we were in Hawaii.  More on our trip to come.

Here she was at 3 months

Here she was at almost 2 months

And another one around the same time (before her hair fell out!)

She was barely over a month here.  So sweet. 

Here are a few of the girls together...

 

Here's Justin with the girls

I found Natie sharing some of her friends with Quinn.  Look how Quinn is staring at Natie.

A few pictures of just Natie now... 

 

I took this almost 2 months ago, but I love it.  Such a pretty girl.

 

She was having fun at her Preschool Valentine's Day party.  Can you tell?  :)

How many pillow pets and stuffed animals does one kid need?

This picture cracks me up.  Its an old baby carrier that she wanted to put her babies in (notice Herbie in the front).  This was her "smile".  :)

The morning after her last haircut she decided to fix it herself...with lots of pretties.

She was excited to go to Hawaii.

I have more pictures to post.  Hopefully it won't take me another 4 months to post them!!

Christmas 2011

Finally getting a chance to post some pictures from Christmas. Let me just start with this...

...meet Herbie. Natie watched the classic Rudolph movie about 7 times this year and is obsessed with Herbie the misfit elf...who really wants to be a dentist. :) She could barely tear herself away from him on Christmas Eve to open presents.

Here's Justin and Quinn in their matching santa hats. Quinn's was made by one of the hospital volunteers. Here are a couple videos of our sweet baby at 2.5 weeks and 4 weeks old.

Here's Natie and the "Cabbage Pat" (as she calls it) doll that Mimi and Papa got her. Mimi made a chest full of clothes for her too! Dear Lord, when is this kid going to learn how to smile?!

Riley got one too! Another fantastic smile. :)

Quinn slept through all the commotion.

Here's sweet JoJo. He was hilarious, kicking and stomping on the presents and the tree!

Natie and Derek reading her new shark book.

Jen and Quinn

Natie and Suzy

KJ opening her new whizzy DS.

A Nerf hoop for Peyton.

Cousins eating Mimi's yummy Christmas cookies!

Jen and Rachel

Suzy, Joe and Sam

This was where Rudy decided to hang out on his last day with us.

Here are the cookies that Natie made for Santa.

Santa brought Natalie a new bike for Christmas! HERE is a video from Christmas morning. Santa also brought her the fire-breathing dragon that she wanted. Watch THIS.

Great-Grandma holding Quinn. HERE is Natalie playing catch with Poppy.

Nana and Poppy got her a Calico Critter house!

And fancy new boots!

Here's me with my girls.

Quinn Madeleine

Quinn Madeleine was born on November 28th at 2:03pm. She weighed in at 9 lbs 15 oz and was 21 in long. She has crazy black hair and chubby cheeks, just like her sister had. So far, she's been a super sweet and easy-going baby. We're so happy she's here and healthy!

Here's a picture of her at 4 days old

We didn't take many pictures at the hospital, but here she is when she was first born.

And here she is with her dad

Big sister came to see her at the hospital. Here's Natalie holding and kissing her.

Here she is after her first bath at home. Look at her crazy, fuzzy hair!

Here's Natalie all dressed up and ready to go see Santa!

She wasn't afraid at all this year. In fact, she gave him a big hug before getting up on his lap. Quinn was 1 week old here.

Here's Santa holding her hand while she tells him what she wants for Christmas.

Here's a couple pictures of our girls. Quinn is a week and a half old.

This one is not so good of Natie, but look at Quinn's smile. :)

Getting a good picture of 2 kids is much harder than one. Check out some of the outtakes...

Natie's famous smile. Justin calls it the anti-smile.

Both sticking their tongues out.

Umm Natie, please don't smother the baby.

Baby Blockhead :)

Since I haven't posted anything since October, here are a few pictures from the past month or so.

Natie and Nana at Thanksgiving. Her "stink-eye" makes me laugh every time.

Here's our little Duck fan all geared up and ready to watch a game with her dad.

End of October (and very pregnant), I went to a Duck game to celebrate Jacquie's bachelorette. Here's Danyel, Jacquie, Jennie and I. So fun being together again and so excited for my kiddo to get married in a few months!