Weekend for Three

Erin is off to Chicago for the weekend and I'm home with the kids all by myself, so I figured I'd utilize this blog to schedule out my weekend. Then I can let you all now how it went afterward. I definitely don't expect it to go as planned, but here's what I'm hoping to do [note: I started this Saturday morning, but I'm not posting it until Saturday night, but I'm not changing the content]:

Saturday (after Erin leaves):

• morning: run errands. Go rent a DVD for "Sushi and a Movie" night with Lyla. Grab some needed groceries
• noon: if home in time for lunch, great. If not, stop at a restaurant. I already remembered to pack Quinn's food!
• Naptime
• late afternoon: go to the park. Might have company for this. A few people may be available for a visit.
• evening: dinner for Quinn then put him down and it's time for "Sushi and a Movie" with Lyla.
• Put Lyla to bed and take care of some kitchen stuff that needs to be done, like repacking chicken breasts for freezing and hard boiling some eggs for the kids.
• Pray the kids sleep through the night.
  

Sunday

• morning: pray the kids have slept through the night.
• late morning: either brunch at Igloo or trip to Target.
  
• Naptime
• late afternoon: Beer Garden with Michelle and Becker and maybe Beth. Probably have dinner there or order in at home.
• evening: put kids to bed.
• make test cake for Lyla's birthday.
  
• pray kids sleep through the night.

Monday

• morning: pray the kids have slept through the night.
• later morning: while Quinn naps, go around back and fill up the little pool for later in the day.
• late morning: not sure. Maybe go to the playground across the street for a little bit.
• afternoon: lunch and then Quinn has an evaluation for speech therapy. He makes a lot of pterodactyl type noises, but isn't saying any words yet. It's all part of his low muscle tone, but that's a blog for another day.
• naptime!
• go to the backyard/cement square and play in the pool, water the plants, have Quinn's OT come there for his session.
• Erin should be home by dinner!

That's the plan. I'll try to let you know how it went on Monday or Tuesday night...

January Recap

As of our last trip to the doctor on 1/20, Quinn weighed 17lbs 11oz and measured 27 1/2". Lyla was 36.9lbs and 38 3/4".

Quinn has been starting to roll from his back to his belly a bit more than he was before. He rolls just fine from his belly to his back. He actually has been hanging out on his side quite a bit. In addition to pureed baby foods, he's starting to eat finger foods, though he doesn't get them from the tray to his mouth on his own so well. He tries to take every food that Erin and I are eating, though. It doesn't matter what it is, he'll put his hand out for it, even dragging our dinner plates toward him and shoving his hand into whatever is on the plate... like ketchup.

Lyla has been cracking us up on a regular basis. She definitely has a mind of her own and loves singing songs, dancing, drawing pictures, painting and making up stories. Best of all, Lyla regularly uses the potty! It seems the key to training was telling her she wouldn't be able to go to school until she was potty trained. It's pretty clear we are raising a nerd.

We needed to pretty quickly add that she also needs to be three years old and she can't start until the fall session, but she didn't seem to mind that so much. We also got to check out her future preschool on a visiting day and it seems like she'll be very happy there come September.

January brought a lot of family birthdays, including Grandpa, Mima, Bubbe, Aunt Bevy and, of course, ME! Lyla loved singing Happy Birthday as much as she could. On my birthday, Erin and the kids brought me breakfast in bed, which was an unexpected and fantastic treat.

Sorry!

It's been a long time since I've updated the blog, but as you can guess, we've been busy. I thought I had posted half of the July Gallery already, but it looks like I hadn't it's up now, just in time for the end of the month.

Lyla and Erin just had their birthdays last weekend, so we were very busy. My mom came in from Boston for the weekend to celebrate with us. She was clearly miserable spending time with her grandkids, but she was able to grin and bear it. She even managed to handle the kids while Erin and I went out for dinner for Erin's birthday on Sunday.

The day before was Lyla's birthday and she had a little bit more action going on with a few of her friends coming over the house for her birthday party. We went a little crazy making her a castle cake, but once we get started...

At Quinn's last doctor's visit on July 10th, he weighed 10 lbs .5 oz and was 22 1/4" long. He's had some feeding issues that we're trying to work through and is mostly getting his milk from a bottle these days. He's gaining weight just fine, though and is a happy, healthy baby. He makes eye contact, follows people around and smiles quite happily.

Lyla absolutely adores Quinn and loves to lie next to him or hold him. She'll lay down a blanket and get her Maully and grab Rufus for Quinn and play on the floor. When she hold him, she likes to kiss his hands and call him "Quinny". When he was younger and didn't open his eyes as much, she would get excited whenever he opened his eyes and exclaim, "Quinn eyes open!!" Now, it's a month and a half later and she still does that.