Friday, April 30, 2010

Quinn is 4 months!

Man time flies.I remember my neighbor telling me that 4 months was her favorite age. Kyler was 4 months at the time and I thought she was absolutely crazy. But I've come to realize that breastfeeding tainted my perspective of everything with Kyler, because Quinn is now 4 months and he is SO MUCH FUN! He smiles all the time, and is rolling over both ways. He even is scooting. He lays on his back, arches, then pushes with his legs. He can get pretty far, it's crazy! He is 14lbs 3 oz, (45 %) and 27 inches (75th %). We got a box from Grandma and Grandpa Hunt. Quinn got a new outfit and Kyler got a new book. I couldn't get Kyler to look at the camera. He was trying to figure out how to get the lady bugs off the page.



Quinn rolled over for the first time. I totally missed it, I was in the other room with Kyler and when I got back he was on his tummy! Then just a few days ago he was playing with a toy and rolled from his tummy to his back.

Kyler and Quinn still love to hang out together. For the most part Kyler is pretty good with him. I've come to realise that Kyler likes to bully kids that are younger then him...or smaller at least , so he loves to roar in Quinns face and I mean ROAR!!! It's not my favorite thing, but we're working on it.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Mistletoe State Park

Well, any of you who keep up with facebook know that when my family came out to visit last week we were planning on camping at the beach. We'd been planning it for months, I reserved the campsite before Quinn was even born! So as the day approached we did all we needed to to get ready, we borrowed tents and sleeping bags, bought all the food, arranged for a second car. Finally the day arrived, I was packing food when I thought, I should call and confirm our reservation just in case. So I called and the terrible happened. Our reservation had been made for the NEXT week. And of course being spring break, nothing was available on the beach in either Georgia, South Carolina, or Florida. So we asked for ANYTHING by water and they found one site...yup, the last one. Mistletoe State Park had one opening, so that's where we headed. It was only two 1/2 hours east of us, so that was nice. We were planning four to the beach. All in all (meaning after I stopped crying and got over it) we had a beautiful site, and had a good time.
What was most important was getting to spend time together.


We got Kyler a head lamp and he loved it of course. Headlamps are the BEST when your camping. This was the area of the lake reserved for swimming, it was really nice. The sand was even nice, so we had a great time swimming and building sand castles. Kyler even got in and swam even though the waster was cold. He was so brave!




My favorite though was watching the sun rise over the lake with all three of my boys. Brian would get up with Kyler in the morning, so this was the only day I caught the sunrise, but man was it beautiful.

This is the view from our hammock at our campsite. The hammock sure was popular, I think we all were fighting for time in it. I know I didn't get enough time in it, but I'm sure there will be other trips.

We did get one big storm. It POURED, and the wind was blowing which gave us horizontal down pour. Needless to say Kyler and I ended up hunkered down in the tent (Quinn was already asleep) until it passed. It was actually one of my favorite moments, laying next to Kyler, talking about the rain and thunder as he slowly fell asleep in my arms. He hasn't fallen asleep in my arms since he was tiny. It was fun. The next day was a bit cold so we all sat in our tent and played games...we even somehow managed to entertain Kyler too. It was a good trip all in all....maybe we'll do the beach next year.

Easter

We had a great Easter. We colored eggs Friday night, and Kyler was in heaven! What?!? I get to hold an egg with out help, and dunk it in this colored stuff all by myself! Are you serious! Of course almost all of them ended up cracked, but they actually turn out kind of cool that way.
Kyler has started to avoid the camera. Or maybe it's that he does the opposite of whatever I ask him to do, so when I say "Kyler look at the camera" this is what I get.

The Easter bunny came to our house Saturday morning and Kyler has been telling me that every day since. Bunny...came...my...HOUSE! he yells, with pauses in between and everything. Its pretty cute.
Quinn's Easter photo op, and 3 month pictures. He's so dang cute!
I yelled "Hey Kyler" to get this one, hence no smile :)