Testing Q's New Boots

The new boots work great. Now if we could only get him to wear his mittens...

Christmas Part II

Here are some pictures from our second Christmas celebration at Grandma Cindi's house.

Merry Christmas!

Quentin's second Christmas was a lot of fun. His supply of trucks, cars, and especially trains increased considerably, which suits him just fine! We got to see a lot of family and are looking forward to a belated get-together at Grandma Cindi's house on Sunday.

Investigating his stocking.

Quentin still doesn't quite "get" presents (although his understanding seemed to increase considerably throughout the day). At the time this picture was taken, they were mostly just a good surface for rolling things on.

What could be in here?

If it has wheels, it must be good.

I think at least half of his presents were related to trains in one way or another. Here he is pulling a "Thomas" engine (this one is Percy), coupled with a set of aquarium cars from our friends in Lawrence (thanks Rob, Tina, and Tim!).

We decided to take Percy and the aquarium cars to Grandma and Grandpa's house, which turned out to be a good idea, since there was a train table waiting for him there!

He hardly left it the whole time we were there, and this morning Grandpa and Uncle Scott delivered it to our house.

He is one lucky kid!

(And we're not even done with the Christmas presents yet, let alone his birthday next week. Where are we going to put them all?)

Words

Quentin's vocabulary is finally taking off. Here's a sampling of his favorite words:

bird
cat
dog
cow
octopus ("opus")
squid ("kid")
push
pull
key
pizza
car
truck
train
go
no
bye bye
drink
tree
bulldozer


Of course, that's just a few of them, but I can't remember them all right now (and he's constantly learning new ones anyway). It's nice that he can finally talk to us! "Bird" is one of his favorite words. There are some bird ornaments on our Christmas tree and for a while one of his favorite things to do was walk around the tree touching them saying "bird," "bird," "bird," occasionally interspersed with his word for snowman (which we can't quite figure out, but seems to be consistent). Here are a few pictures that have nothing to do with talking.

November Montage

Here are some assorted pictures of fun in November

Playing in the leaves.

Getting ready to blow some bubbles!

Reading the Lego catalog. A new favorite (seriously! It has pictures of trains, fire trucks, planes, helicopters, and dragons!)

Asleep with frogs.

Rites of Passage

Quentin got his first stitches on Tuesday evening!

Here's how it happened:

Quentin was running out of Mommy and Daddy's Room (most likely planning on running To Rest of House). He caught his right foot on the Book Case, and went flying into the Point of Impact. From there, we went directly to The Hospital (illustration below).

Fortunately, there happens to be a brand new (just opened in late September) state-of-the-art Children's Hospital right around the corner from us (literally). Everybody was very nice and, as emergency room visits go, it was not so bad. Quentin said "hi" and "bye" to several people (something he doesn't usually do), and except for the parts where people were interfering with his play (like binding him up and sewing his forehead), he had an OK time. Fortunately, he was holding his toy bus when the accident occurred, and wouldn't let go of it until after we got to the hospital, so he had something to keep him occupied while we waited. He ended up with a total of 7 stitches, and one new toy fire truck the next day.

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pictures of Quentin in his dragon costume (and one of all of us with our jack-o-lanterns). On Saturday we went to "Boo at the Zoo." Quentin isn't really into collecting candy yet (no complaints about that!), but it was fun to have a chance to take him out in his costume (and see all the other kids in costume too).