Quinn is starting to crawl (sort of).

In the lats couple days, little Q has been doing her best to move around on all fours. So far, she can just sort of scoot and go backwards. But her tummy is up off the ground when she is on all fours and she has a very determined look in her eye. She grunts and squeals, and gets frustrated quickly, as she tries to get it in gear and move. Any day now she will be crawling — and it is pretty amazing to watch her development towards this big milestone. If and when we can catch something on camera we'll have a new post.

Who's Been Complaining About No Posts?

More pictures available at Flickr. I've been posting photos over there on a regular basis but haven't been sending out any notifications. I'll try and post something here when I get new pictures posted over there in the future.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Xander is really liking this game:

3am

I think I need to use the potty
-Xander, 3am in the morning after having been asleep for quite a while with no prompting from us.

Gingerbread

Saturday night a few friends came over and we built a gingerbread house. There's more pictures over at flickr. Also, at one point Xander was dancing the Funky Oven (he cam e up with name on his own). Here's video:


At this point I'm asking for limits on the Christmas cookies that are made since I've already got a tummy ache from the gingerbread and there's still a week and a half to go to Christmas.

Holiday Parade

Last night we took the kids to the holiday parade downtown. We had planned on getting dinner after the parade which was a mistake since the parade was a two hours long -- not the thirty minutes we had expected -- so dinner ended up being at 8:30 instead of 7. And that was after we cut thing short by walking three blocks up State street so that Xander could see Santa at the end of the parade. Xander had a good time; he claims that his favorite part was the giant gingerbread man balloon but based on he's been making us parade around the house as he plays his candy-cane balloon as a horn this morning I'd say that he liked the marching bands better. At least he hasn't asked me to float around the house like a giant gingerbread man balloon yet.

Caught on Film

Tonight we caught the elusive Quinn rollover on film. She rolled over three times: the first we missed as she waited for us to be looking away (as usual), the second she actually did in front of us, and by the time she did the third rollover I had the camera out. Unfortunately she was not as happy the third time she pulled it off as she was the other two times; it seemed like she was getting frustrated about not being able to get Fuzzy Bee and Friends in her mouth as easily as she does when she's on her back.