The wonder of Christmas.

today a lady in the store told quinn she had dogs but not cats. Quinn said "i hab kitties, and i hab a dinosaur too" she said 'oh you have a dinosaur too?" he said "yeah i hab dinosaur" she said "well a dinosaur is too big for me"..he said " yeah...mine dinosaur will bite you"

Quinn is very excited about Christmas. He wants a Christmas tree and candy canes.

I cannot wait to take him to see Santa this year!

I have been teaching him about God and Jesus and he can sing a little bit of Jesus Loves Me.

I am feeling very satisfied with life right now.

Thank you God.

And thank you Jamie.

Today Rick was going to change Quinn. Then I heard crying and Rick soothing Quinn. When Quinn came out of the bathroom I asked what happened and this is what transpired:

Me: "What happened?"

Quinn: "I fall on book"

Me: "You did? Are you ok?"

Quinn: "Book rub me. It hurt"

Me: "Awww..."

Quinn: "Ball fall on floor"

Me: "Oh you dropped your ball too"

Quinn: "Yeah.I drop ball"

I am so amazed that i can carry on a conversation with him.

Quinn cracks me up. He says the funniest things. Now he sounds like a little boy and not so much a baby.

He has opinions about things. He starts conversations.He talks to his toys.

:)

Quinn knows all of his shapes. And he knows the colors: red, blue, yellow, orange,green, pink,black, brown and purple.

My son is getting sooo big. He talks all the time and makes up stories too. Today he told me that we had elephants ,giants and lions in our trees. Then a bit later he told me they left. When I asked him where they went he said "McDonald's" ...guess they were hungry!

This morning he said "mommy say YAAAY" so i did...then he looked at me and said "good job mommy good job".

then he immediately told me you have pretty hair....

wow....i never want to forget these days ...

he is very interested in Christmas and when asked what he wants for Christmas he says "a Christmas tree" asked if he wants anything else...he says "....ummm candy canes"

The other day he was in the yard playing with daddy and he was using a bucket for a drum... when he was all done playing the drum he put his hands in the air adn said 'thank you ...thank you"

im in love with this child of mine...and eternally grateful every day that God chose me to be his mama...

.....during our trip with aunt cathy (we went along the western michigan coastline checking out light houses)every time cathy would get out of the car or something quinn would get upset..so cathy would tell quinn "i will be right back" and then while she was gone he would say "aunt cathy right back?" and i would say "yes so then aunt cathy WOULD come back...so now.....every time there is a commercial on one of his shows Quinn will say (in reference to whoever it is..in this case it was elmo) "elmo be right back?" and he is starting understand the concept of time.... awww....he's getting sooo big....

Quinn at age 2 years 4months and 5 days has a new favorite show. It is called Monkey See Monkey Do.

He is very afraid of the Halloween "funny guy" at the store. At first "funny guy" was his friend and he happily waved goodbye to him and repeatedly asked to go see him again. Then when we went back "funny guy" was no longer talking. He just stood there not saying anything no matter how much we talked to him. Then suddenly "funny guy" started to talk. That startled Quinn and he started crying and said "funny guy 'care me". He told it to everyone in the store and every time he would say it he would start crying huge tears like his heart was broken that his friend "funny guy" scared him. Now we can longer walk to that area of the store. No matter how much we try to convince him that "funny guy" is not going to hurt him.

By the way "funny guy" is a Halloween mannequin that is dressed like a butler holding a silver platter with a talking skull on it!

everyday i am incredibly blessed to have a happy healthy gorgeous little miracle boy...when he laughs my soul sings!!

Fertility drugs - $2,000

Credit Card bills $10,000

watching Daddy hug his little boy this morning and say "We are so lucky to have you"

PRICELESS

Quinn is 29.4 lbs.

36 inches tall

head circumference 19 in.

he is getting huge!

Today Quinn said "toy hurt me" first time ever using me in a sentence!

Today Quinn said ew voo mamay..it translated to i love you mommy...awww.... i cried...

I love it when Quinn runs to the bedroom to "hide" from me. He hides his head under the pillow or blanket and the rest of his body is sticking out then he giggles and gets so excited. Its so funny. He does this whenever its time to change his diaper or put clothes on. Or sometimes he does it just to get us to find him.

He knows the colors blue and orange well. He is figuring out purple, green, red and turquoise. They are the colors of the dinosaurs in his book.

He's so yummy.

For the last 2 days Quinn has really been using the please card. In the store he is hollering "DOUGHNUT PLEASE?" and he said it to anyone and everyone. He did not seem to mind that they could not understand him.

Quinn is having an explosion of vocabulary! He says lots of sentences and engages you in conversation. he also pretends to read his books. he got an elephant book today that teaches "please may I have some peanuts" after he heard it once and no one was in the room he sat on the bed and "read" it to himself..saying "Pleeeeease can i have some peanuts." It was so funny.

He also tries so hard to get us to understand him when we have no clue what he is saying. He says it over and over and gets louder and louder. Today he kept saying the same thing over and over and I said to him "go tell daddy maybe he will know what you are saying" so he did...Daddy did not know but when he was in the kitchen telling daddy I understood him. He was saying "ride again" he wanted to go for another car ride.

I love that he can talk. He is very interesting. My heart bursts with love for him more every day.

My baby is now old enough to ask me to put in "Elmo" for him. Man he is getting so big.

Today Quinn started running around the house saying "Cool..I'm Superman!" he also changes that to Spiderman occasionally. He's is a cracker for sure!

Quinn loves the song from all in the family!! He tries to sing it just like Jean Stapleton. it is soo funny...and he loves listening to her talk...

Also he has been making this weird noise like he is clearing his throat..I finally figured out...he is trying to fake snore!!! So cute. Wow I'm in love with this kid.

A couple of weeks ago Quinn started saying "up down up down" so cute...he says it a lot!

He can say over 100 words. I lost track counting them the other day. Of course most of them no one can understand but me.

I rented him his first dvd yesterday...Elmo's World and Winnie the Pooh. He loves the Elmo one but not yet into the Winnie the Pooh..although he loves to have the Pooh book read to him.

Today Quinn figured out if he put his fingers in his ears things sounded different. It was so funny watching him. He kept walking around with them in his ears and making the funniest faces! it is so cool to watch him experience everything for the first time.

Sometimes when he is awake I can't wait for him to go to sleep...and then when he does.. I miss him. Its an odd feeling.

Quinn is 22 months. He likes to scream over EVERYTHING! No no no are becoming his favorite words, which he says in the most whiny voice he can..LOL.

He is getting so big. He weighs 27.8lbs and he is 33 inches tall. He is so cute.

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If you ask Quinn to point to his body parts he will. He knows nearly all of them except he gets elbow and wrist mixed up. He can name about 20 animals and can do their sounds.When he says elephant he puts his arm up to his nose and makes a motion like a trunk!His favorite animals are any that growl and cats and dogs. He loves to do those sounds. He also likes horses a LOT.
He recognizes that words have letters in them but calls all letters "B" and occasionally "O". He LOVES books and he also likes to eat them. All day he says "book book".
He absolutely LOVES Barney and we don't really care who likes it. It isn't for adults it's for babies and it is geared to them. It is a very wholesome show-that's something that is hard to find. He also likes Blues Clues and Thomas the Train. And he LOVES Elmo!
He loves meat and potatoes. Does not care for pasta - AT ALL. And he also does not like rice or any kind of casserole. He loves raw tomatoes and ONIONS and bell peppers.His favorite side dish is salad. He likes ALL fruit and he really likes it raw the best.He loves to watch anybody cooking. And he totally LOVES ice cream.
He loves to have a bath and hates to get out of the tub.
He likes to be rough and tumble. He thinks it is great to wrestle. But he cheats and pulls hair.
Well I think that is enough for todays update. I will try to write more whenever I can.

I wish I had learned to do this blog when I was pg. And even in the days after Quinn was born. But I guess it's better late than never.

Quinn now says "there ya go" whenever you give him something. He is 21 months and 13 days old.

He is becoming so independent. He is has an opinion on things now and he voices it loudly!

He is so funny..he says things like "ice cream...COLD" and he thinks snow is ice cream.

He is in love with the girl that does the Progressive insurance commercials.He always has been. He stops what ever he is doing to watch her. Now his latest thing is when she says "it's an office party" he says it too.

What a funny guy he is.

Newborn Quinn. Wow you look just like your Daddy!

Oh my ..you are gorgeous!

when you were born my beautiful perfect child i knew i had found love.

the incredible feeling poured thru my very soul..

it was with a new set of eyes that i saw the world

and i knew that this was the only true love that ever existed...

watching you smile brings torrents of love that spill onto my cheeks...

i want to wrap my arms around you and never let you go.

to fold you into my chest and breathe in your innocence

you have touched the essence of my soul...

i love you

written by your mommy colleen

written9-8-09

Letter To Quinn:

I remember the day I told your Dad that we had to try one more time for a baby. I said "more than anything in the world I want to be a mom".

In order to have a baby we would have to have someone donate eggs. I was nearly 47 and that was just too old.

So I set about looking for someone that could donate to me. I decided to ask my friend Jamie because I knew she wanted more than anything to help me be a mom. You see in the past she had tried to have a baby for us. And she managed to get pregnant. Then tragedy struck and she lost the baby-your brother Jadon- at just 18 weeks along.

So we set out on the quest to bring a new life into the world.

We went to the fertility clinic and they said they could surely help us.

Jamie had to take many shots and the doctor said that she wasnt developing enough eggs. They were thinking of canceling the cycle. But we were extremely upset. We didnt have enough money to try again. We said no we didnt want to cancel.

The day came for the doctor to collect the eggs. Poor Jamie she was in a lot of pain afterward.

The doctor told us they had gotten only 6 eggs. But we continued and the doctors fertilized the eggs and all the eggs fertilized!

That was a big deal because normally only half of the eggs retrieved fertlize! They let the eggs grow for 3 days. Then on the 3rd day they decided which 3 they wanted to transfer to me. I was terrifed it would not work. I prayed with everything in me.

Five days later, in the morning while daddy slept, I took a home pregnancy test. I waited the alotted 10 minutes and nothing happened. Then very slowly a faint line started to appear. It was so faint that I didnt even know if I was really seeing it. I ran into the bedroom and woke Daddy up. I was crying and holding the test stick. Daddy said "you better not show me a postive test stick" but he was smiling from ear to ear. I showed it to him and he was so happy!!

Everyday(in fact several times a day) after that I redid those tests until the long 2 weeks of waiting were over and I could go have a real pregnancy test at the hospital.Then I had to go home and wait until they called to confirm the pregnancy. I waited what seemed like forever. Then the phone rang and the nurse said "well Colleen you are very pregnant. Your BETA (the name for the test) came in at 664. SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR!!!! WOW!!! That is a very high number. Then she said "we think you may have 3 in there". I was dumbfounded. I did not know if I could carry 3 babies. I prayed to God to take care of us. I prayed so hard. I knew that God knew what he was doing and if I was suppose to have 3 then thats what we would have.

We had to wait 2 more weeks before they did an ultrasound. Two whole weeks of waiting again. Then the day came. The doctor ran the wand over my belly and he said " I see one". One perfect tiny little miracle with a beating heart. I thought the world had swallowed me whole. I was so happy.And Daddy was crying! We were eternally grateful to Jamie. If it werent for Jamie we would never have had this chance to be your parents.

When we went for another scan at 8 weeks you were moving. Then another scan at almost 14 weeks and you were waving your arms and legs. Everytime we saw you we cried.

Then came the scan that showed us you were a boy. Daddy was so proud. He wanted a boy. Then that very next day I felt you kick for the first time. It was December 23rd.

I will never forget it. I loved feeling you inside me growing.

Finally after the longest nine months in the world --you were born. Oh what a wonder you were. At first I was terrified I would hurt you. You were so tiny. And here I was resposible for keeping you alive and healthy. It seemed like an insurmountable task.But after the first week I looked at Daddy and said "wow babe we have kept another human alive for a whole week all by ourselves".

And everyday I fell more and more in love with you. And if ever in this whole world you think no one loves you or cares- always my precious gift ALWAYS remember I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING ON THIS EARTH. I study your fingers and toes everyday. I look at your eyes and you smile up at me and my heart melts.

You always look to see if mama and daddy are watching you because you have made some great discovery or completed some fantastic feat. We are my gorgeous son. We are. And we always will be.

We love you Quinn Gabriel.

Love,

Mama & Daddy

After waiting my whole life to become a mom it was finally about to happen. Here I am at age 47 just about a week before my precious son was born. I LOVED being pregnant. And I was pretty darn good at it too. I had no problems!

Have no clue what I'm doing.