Minnie Mouse In The House

If I asked Quinn what she wanted to be for Halloween, she would tell me a ball, dog, cow or night, night because that's about all she says to everything.

Tonight I taught her beep, beep which is pretty fun and I'm hoping she starts using it in public.

I took Quinn trick or treating on Tuesday night around my parents area.  I brought her by my parents and since my mom is too cheap to buy candy (kidding, mom!), she gave her a box of Frosted Flakes and Nutrigrain Bar. 

Chocolate or cereal, it's still food in Quinn's book so she was happy.  If you ever need to bribe Quinn, just say anything about food and she'll be on you like white on bread. 

I had woken Quinn up from her nap in the car so she wasn't too pleased to be taking any sort of picture.

After we were done at my parents, we went into town and visited my Grandma M. and then hit a couple more neighborhoods up for candy.

It was fun taking Quinn this year.  She didn't understand the going up to people to get the candy or rather she was just too shy and scared to.  But she knew that she had some goodies in her bucket.

She had a great time running down driveways and waving to all the other kids.

We stayed up about an hour and a half past her bedtime but it was a lot of fun for the two of us!  Hubs had to miss because of work & pool league.

On Halloween, our town had trick or treaters so we dressed Quinn up and had her greet everyone at the door.  It was a perfect little Halloween.

If you're wondering what Barney & I were for Halloween, just take a look at this precious little picture.

I was Psy...you know...Oppa, Gangnam Style.

Barney was Bruce Mitchell with his boyfriend Jeremy as the alligator.  "Shooot 'em, shooot 'em".

What I'm Doing This Month

Remember that one time I made a list of goals for 2012?  I've been looking at it and haven't been completing a number of those goals so I'm revamping them.

Here is my new list for this month:

1.  Go to a pumpkin patch. 

2.  Force my husband to watch a scary movie.

3.  Go to the movies and see Taken 2 or Pitch Perfect.






4.  Figure out a Halloween costume for all three of us within the next couple of weeks.  Quinn is into ripping anything off her head so I have to be choosy about what she will wear which basically takes out every outfit known to man for me to dress her in.  D-I-V-A, I know.  Quinn made a super cute 4 month old kitty cat last year.

5.  Have my dad take Quinn on a combine ride and take pictures of my dad combining.

6.  Workout 5x a week and limit myself to 3 pop's a week.  Since running my half, I've worked out once and it was a 3 mile run.  I don't even feel guilty about it.  Since I had trained so much, my body was really off.  I finally went the chiro and my hips were out of wack, causing one of my legs to be shorter than the other.  So now, I really have no excuses not to work it out.

 7.  Make a fall wreath.

8.  Carve a couple big pumpkins and paint a few more.  I'm excited for this one because I think Quinn will be able to help.  Hopefully she won't try to eat the pumpkin.

9.  Finish Season 2 of PLL on Netflix.  I'm seriously addicted to this show.

10.  Watch the Presidential Debates.  It might be my civic duty to be a more informed voter, but I really have never taken an interest in politics.  I am however, interested in seeing how Mitt Romney can make a bigger ass out of himself and what he has to say about the 47% this time.   Guess you know where my vote lies.

All pretty feasible and all pretty fun.

What are your plans for this month?

Halloweenie + 4 months

Monday was a first for many things for Quinn.

Quinn's first (and only - duh!) four month appointment.

Quinn's first Halloween.

Quinn's first experience eating rice.

Quinn's first word spoken and it was "momma'....KIDDING.  It would be fun though if she could.

We started the morning off bright and early around 7:30 AM (I could of and should have slept in).  I wanted to give Quinn a bit of time to wake up, play and to take a little nap before her checkup at 10:15.  Two months ago when I scheduled the appointment, I didn't really think about time in relation to naps because Quinn was still sleeping whenever she felt like (and still does to some extent).

  

Happy Baby!

Her 4 month check up went exceptionally well.  She's as healthy and developmentally sound as she can be.  Of course, she's still a little nugget. 

Side note: Have I ever told you all how much we love our pediatrician?!  He's awesome and just talks to you.  He doesn't try to sound overly smart and all doctory and is very respectful. 

STATS:

Weight: 13 pounds, 1 ounce; 25 percentile.

Length: 24 inches; 25 percentile.

Head: 42 3/4 cm; 95th percentile.

Other stats: Quinn is sleeping 7 pm to 7 am on a regular basis.  She can roll over from tummy to back when propped up on her elbows and can roll over from back to tummy on her own.  She's now eating 6  - 8 oz of formula every 3 hours plus rice once a day.  Quinn can talk your ear off, seriously, when I leave her laying around and she doesn't have her pacy, she'll talk and talk and talk!

At this appointment, the doctor was less concerned about her head size because she's following her curve.  Also, he's never concerned with her weight and height because of the genes given to her. 

Quinn received two shots and an oral.  She did much better this time.  There was still crying but I was able to calm her down pretty quickly.  She was out like a light before we even got to the car.  I think the meds I gave helped quite a bit with that one. 

Quinn was spent from shots and proceeded to take a 3-4 hour nap so I finally was able to go to the craft store (think a yarn wreath and tutu's!), mall to get my bling cleaned and Wal-mart for a few odds and ends.

I got the okay to start feeding Quinn rice so I started that day.  She was a little skeptical about getting fed via spoon.  I also think she wasn't getting fed fast enough so she was getting pretty upset.  It's zero to sixty with the girl.  When it's feeding time, it's feeding time!  She does not mess around.

Tuesday and today went much better.  She fully understands what's on the spoon and that she's supposed to be eating it.  She even tilts her head up so momma can put it in her mouth.  I did alternate between giving her a few spoonfuls of rice and following it up with a few drinks of formula.

First spoonful. 

In case you're wondering, her bib does say "High Chair Hottie".

We had trick or treating in town on Monday night, so we of course dressed Quinn up.  She was a kitty and an extremely cute one at that.

  

She made it for maybe 30 minutes of greeting trick or treater's at the door and decided that she needed a cat nap.

I think we have at least 5 pounds of candy leftover.  My ass won't thank me but my belly will.

I'm probably going to turn into a Snickers!

Happy Belated Halloween!