A Quinn-ism

Last night, while I was getting Quinn ready for bed, she asked to do a "fruit hunt," which basically means to take turns listing all the fruits we can think of. So we're going about our business:

Me: "Apple"
Quinn: "Orange"
Me: "Blueberry"
Quinn: "Strawberry"
Me: "Boysenberry"
Quinn: "Ha Ha, Boysenberry... Girlsenberry!"

She was SO proud of herself when I busted out laughing! She thought she was just the funniest thing out there, and of course to me, she is! That girl always keeps us on our toes!

The Meaning Behind the Words

Our un-affectionately nick-named neighbors are dubbed the Thundering Herd. I've never heard people so loud in my entire life, and I've lived in condo/apartment settings in the past. On top of their running and thumping throughout their condo above us, they are also making home improvements on their floors (maybe their soundproofing? One can only hope...)

Anyway, on Saturday, Quinn and I were sitting at the dining room table eating lunch and forgive me for starting this inappropriate conversation, but it is just too funny not to post. The neighbors were doing some serious drilling and there was one particularly loud noise of something being screwed securely into place. The following short, but hilarious, conversation ensued...

Loud Noise
Me: "Quinn, did you just foof? (our word for passing gas)"
Quinn (and I kid you not, with her finger point toward our ceiling: "No Mommy, the neighbors are screwing upstairs!"

Need I even say more?

Neverending Snow

We've spent considerable time out in the "Snowstorm of 2010." We introduced Quinn to sledding this winter, which has been a blast with all this snow. We created a "luge" in our backyard - this video was taken after our first dump, when the weather was actually calm. Just SO funny!



We are now into our third day of being off work. It's snowing like crazy outside! This snow is breaking records all over the place. Quinn doesn't care anything about that, she's just enjoying being out in this Winter Wonderland!

Shame on Me

So much for trying to blog MORE this year...

I do have pictures from Christmas and New Year's Eve, though!

If I ever slow down enough, I will actually do a real post soon. All I can say is that we had a great time in Michigan over the holiday and Quinn yet again cleaned up on presents from Mommy and Daddy, Santa Clause, "Santa Gail", Poppy & Manka, Grandma Kircher, and all of our other family members and friends!

Another One!

I was eating dinner with Quinn last night. She had salmon, linguini noodles and veggies. As she was picking up her noodles with her fingers and playing with them, I started to lose my temper a little. I sternly told her, "STOP playing with your noodles, please, and EAT them."

She looked at me, with a big smile widening across that sweet face of hers, and retorted, "Look, there's a dancing noodle in the house!!!"

Needless to say, I was no longer irritated and was rather belly laughing at that comment!

The Best Gift

Need I say more?

Pout and all, this girl owns my heart.

First Snow!

What a way to kick off the winter time! On Saturday we got about 4 inches of nice wet snowman-rolling, snow fort-building, snow angel-making snow! After Quinn's dance and tennis classes, we came home, changed into our winter gear and went outside for 2 1/2 hours to play in the beautiful snow! Ok, it was pretty wet and sloppy, but that is the best kind for a 3-year-old!

This stuff is great!

Frosty at his best!

My first snowman!

We did just about everything we could think of except go sledding. We built Quinn's first snowman, we made a fort, we hid toys and played treasure hunt, we made snow angels, and we got WET!!!! After all that time outside, Quinn didn't even put up a fuss to come inside to have hot chocolate and... jello? Ok, ok, I didn't have any cookies so I had to compromise. Strange, I know - but I was desperate to keep the "Awesome Mom" status, so I made do with what I had!

Making a snow angel

She is very much hoping for more snow when we go to Michigan for 2 weeks over Christmas. Come on, Midwest, don't let us down!