Not Much New

Just some good old Daddy Daughter time...


And Daddy and Daughter clowning around!!!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Big Girl on Christmas Night!

Although Quinn potty trained right on time, she never did quite get the overnight holding-it-in thing down. She's been in pull-ups ever since - until about a month ago when she just started either mostly holding it in or occasionally waking up to go potty overnight. She'd wake up in the middle of the night (which NEVER happens) and tell us her pull-up was wet or she'd wake up dry. This was huge!!!

This past week there has been no problem whatsoever - and I told her that I bet Santa would notice she was becoming such a big girl! Well Santa came through, and left her a brand new pack of underwear as a reward. We then opened all of our gifts, and headed to Bill & Suzie's for the evening. When we got home, she went potty one last time and went to bed with her new underwear on - and woke up dry this morning! Mom and Dad are very proud of their not-so-little girl!

I'm a proud girl, and I have my new underwear to show for it!

Big Sister Quinn!

We had the pleasure of telling Quinn is going to be a big sister next summer and she is very excited! Thanks, Pop, for filming while we shared our news with her!

Outdoor Fun

I swear, this video reminds me of something you'd see in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Just picture the Roadrunner hiding behind a bush and moving it at will when he needs to change positions... You'll understand after you watch this, I promise!

Seriously?

I swear, I don't know where she gets this from!

Gaver Tree Farm

I love, love, LOVE our new neighborhood! We literally live like a mile down the road from Gaver Tree Farm, where we spent our Saturday afternoon. This place is great! We took a hay ride and picked out pumpkins, jumped on this huge moonbounce "thingy," fed farm animals, ran through a corn maze, and munched on hot pretzels and cheese. It was one of those beautiful Indian Summer days and Quinn and I took full advantage of it.

Pumpkin Picker

The best we could do - not a bad picture!

All sass at the ripe old age of 4...

Check me out, with my new buddy!

We plan on heading back next Saturday evening with several families from our neighborhood. I've never had the pleasure of feeling a sense of community like this since I was 8 years old, living on Taft Road in Michigan. I realize how much "small town life" offers, and am thankful every day that we were able to find this wonderful house in this wonderful town so far away from the Rat Race that is Montgomery County!

YAY US!!!

So Busy

I'm sorry I've been MIA for basically the whole summer - the Kircher Family has been through a lot (all good, but just displaced) this year and we have FINALLY bought ourselves a house! So, with that, I haven't been posting because it seems every night after work I come home, make sure Quinn is fed, bathed and taken care of before we put her to bed, I have some project to take care of... painting a room, unpacking a box, fighting with Verizon to get my Internet up and running - you get the picture.We are in love with our new home and the neighborhood, but we have a LOT of work to do. So forgive me for being absent. I will try to get back to some normalcy before the year ends.


In short, Quinn is thriving and making us laugh every day. She also makes us want to pull our hair out sometimes, but what can you expect from a precocious 4 (and-a-half) year old?