April Gallery is Up!

I finally got our April photos up, so you can check out the gallery here. We had a lot of visitors in April and our traditional Passover Seder brought a full house and sent away full bellies. As of April, Quinn was 28 3/4" in height and when weighed in May for a blood test he was around 21 lbs.

Aside from that, the pictures pretty much tell what happened over the month.

Bad Blogging

Sorry it's been so long since there has been an update. The whole family is doing well and I finally got March's Gallery up, so check out the pictures there. Quinn has FOUR teeth now right up in front, but you'll have to wait until I get the April Gallery up to get a glimpse of those. I'll try to do a better update... some day.

Lyla Gives Ari the Runaround

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Lyla and Quinn got their Pot of Gold from their leprechauns for St. Patty's Day.
(presents not pictured)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Much love from the Black family!

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.