Kirch has had the great pleasure of Quinn's company for the past few Sundays. Of course, we all spent Father's Day together, starting out at the Silver Diner in the Kentlands for breakfast. We then went to "the Wall" which Quinn has dubbed the Kentlands Town Square, and then over to another area with a pavilion in it. It was a good day. I got KirchCrocs for his gift and Quinn picked out (by herself) a fishing lure and a bobber (which she called a robber until i corrected her).
This past Sunday, we started out together at Rio and walked around the lake, played in the playground and shopped in Dick's Sporting Goods. After some time there, we headed to Wendy's for lunch (yep, we feed her fast food here and there) and I wasn't quite up to par, so Kirch took Quinn back to the Wall and the Pavilion while I went home to get some rest. Father - daughter quality time is so much fun, as you can tell in the pictures!!!
This spring we enrolled Quinn in a Creative Dance class through the Gaithersburg Community Center. It was a 7 week class (that I have incidentally enrolled her for again, starting next weekend) that took her about 4 weeks to get comfortable enough to actually participate in! This is a class that parents can't participate in, so we wait outside the door, looking in from time to time. Week 1 went bad - she took one step into the room and cried her eyes out, running back for the door. This went on for about 3 more weeks, each time, a little more time spent in the class, and less time running back to my arms making sure I was still on the other side of that door waiting for her! By Week 5 another little girl named Maho came up to her, took her by the hand and BAM! That was that - Quinn never looked back! She absolutely loves the class now!
Well, on Week 7, the last class, the parents were allowed to come in and watch the show. Man, was it CUTE!!! I managed to get a few precious shots of my kiddo in one of her many leotards, having a ball with Miss Myia!
I took Quinn camping a couple of weeks ago. But it's cheating camp - I don't tent camp anymore. We got ourselves a nice dry cabin with a queen size bed and MAN, that's camping! Tons of people went, and despite the nasty rainy weather we had on Friday when we got there, we really managed to have a great time over Saturday and Sunday!
Can I eat my cereal in peace, please?
On Saturday we hooked up with the Kastbergs for the day and went sightseeing. We hit a park where Quinn and Meredith became BFFs very quickly... check it out!
Let's help each other up this hill!
We also hit Harper's Ferry, which is a very cool place! We went and had lunch and my Little Miss Quinn surprised me by sharing a tuna salad salad with me! she ate everything in that salad except for the red onions (Mommy, they're spicy!). I love, love, LOVE that she loves salad!!!
On Saturday night we had a big pot luck dinner and watch Game 5 of the Red Wings/Penguins Stanley Cup Series. Quinn learned that rolling down a hill is great fun - man, that girl had fun!
She talks about camping all the time now. I guess we are going to have to start doing it more often!
