I'm telling you. Through all the crap Quinn gives us and all the times im exhausted.....today was the coolest day ever... he was sooo into christmas. he loved his castle and daddy actually had to go ask to play with him and be part of it... very great day today! 
He was asleep by 7 tonight... :) 
Thank you Jamie Baker Burrows...i love you forever and always....
Quinn has started coming up to me and daddy and hugging us at the same time and saying "group hug"
it was a great christmas
its all been worth it!

every time i have to go through quinns clothes and get rid of the ones that are too small it makes me sad and happy. i remember days when he wore this or that.... the pajama top the neighbor gave me when he was 6 months old...it was huge...and now..its too small.... he wore it a lot ... his mickey mouse shirts....his winnie the pooh...they have gone to the side in favor of super heroes....his big boy undies that are now way too small.... his socks that i bought at a garage sale.... there were so many of them i didnt need socks for a long time..now...they are all too small...
i pick each item up and smell it and hold it close and remember the things he did when he wore them....
i tell quinn...mama misses her baby...but...im very glad you are becoming a big boy...and...it makes me cry. i know that he will never be this little again. i know that i will miss the little boy voice, the mispronunciation of his words.... the potty chair, the high chair,
and i think with anticipation and fear of the things he will learn, the boy he will become and the man he will be, ....
i hope that he will always flash that great smile with twinkling eyes in his special way just for mama...
he is our future and i pray that i am doing a good job teaching him to love God, people and the earth and all the living things here. To respect himself and, in turn, he will respect others.
i hope that he will live his life with joy and happiness and security.

i get all of this just from sorting my sons clothes as he grows..... :)

Well. at 4 yrs 5 months Quinn is doing great.
I'm a bit concerned because he holds his pencil by the very end (not down by where he is writing but at the far end). He is very stubborn and won't let anyone show him the correct way. Also he holds scissors with 2 hands.
He can recognize a lot of letters and makes them out of different things (ie straws).
His speech is very hard to understand.

He is incredibly cute and very silly. He likes to tell jokes and play jokes on people.
He moves all the time.
He is very picky about food.
He weighs 40 pounds and is 42 inches tall.


Just look at the picture of him..... :)
He is so cute!

awww Quinn said his prayer for supper and he said 
"Thank you for everybody in the world..and Tobias and Cece and all their kids and Marilyn and Angelica....and Jesus. Amen"

Me: "Look at that boy Daddy....just look at him. Can you believe he is ours?" 
Daddy just smiles. 
Me: "Quinn are you really ours?"
Quinn: "MmHm."
Me: "Were you looking down from Heaven saying you wanted to be our boy?"
Quinn: " Mmm Hmm...I missed you."


That made me cry. 

Me: "We missed you too son. We really did."

Quinn: "When I'm done with my chips I'll be done eating my food - but I didn't eat my yogurt (its actually applesauce?) yet."
Me: " Why don't want to eat the yogurt?"
Quinn: "Because I said so."
Me: "Ok. But why did you say so? "
Quinn: "Because I SAID SO."
Me: " I know but why did you say so? Don't you like it? "
Quinn: "No I don't like it."
Me: "Why don't you like it?"
Quinn: " BECAUSE I SAID SO."
Me: "But WHY did you say so? What's wrong with it?"
Quinn: "Because it's too tight."
Me: "What do you mean it's too tight? Why don't you want to eat it?"
Quinn: "Because it's too tight - I TOLD you."
Me: "But what do you mean?"
Quinn: "It's too bumpy. "

Quinn: "Do you have a secret to tell me? "
Me whispering: "I love you."
Quinn: "Another one!"
Me: "You're cute!"
Quinn: "Another one."
Me: "Do you like secrets?"
Quinn: "Secrets are pretty awesome - but I don't really care for them."

LOL

Me: "What's your favorite color?"
Quinn: "All the colors."
Me: "What's your favorite number?"
Quinn: "12."
Me: "What's your favorite animal?"
Quinn: "Lion."
Me: "Who is your favorite person to play with?"
Quinn: "Brian." (Jes Anthony Weiss's little boy)
Me: "What's your favorite toy?"
Quinn: "The toys in aunt Cathy's sandbox."
Me: "What is your favorite pet?"
Quinn: "A dragon."
:)

Quinn at 3yrs 11 months and 20 days weighed 35.8 pounds and was 42 inches tall!

The other day I asked Rick why he was giving me a dirty look.
Today when I went to the store a car went past us in the parking lot and Quinn said "Dat guy sure was giving me dirty yook!"
Then when we were at the check out Quinn said to the cashier "You sure are givin me a yot of dirty yooks...why you keep giving me dirty yooks"
LOL.....

Quinn is very interested in how words got their meanings. He is full of questions.
He is so smart and cute. :)

If you ask Quinn if he is cute he says "NOoooooo. I'm gorgeous!"

Yes he is!

So yesterday i was driving around and Quinn says "Mommy are we in the forest? Its dark and scary- are we in the dark and scary forest?" I said "Yes we're in the Maumee forest." To which he says " WE ARE??? WE'RE IN THE MUMMY FOREST???"

I said " NO! We are in the Maumee forest." He says "MUMMY FOREST??" I said "Noooo Mau Mee. Like Mawww meeee. " He says "Oh were in the Mommy forest??" I said " No Quinn. Its Oak Openings Park."

Happy Easter Sweetie boy!

Quinn: "Mommy said when I grow up I will stay Quinn."

Me: "Do you wanna be someone else when you grow up?"

Quinn: " Uh huh."

Me: "Who do you wanna be?"

Quinn: "A super hero."

awww just heard quinn tell daddy "knock knock? daddy said who's there quinn said "olive" daddy said "olive who?" quinn said "OLIVE YOU.... dat what mommy always does to me!"

the other morning i was trying to get the phone working and i said the word piss. Quinn said "Mommy, I know how much you like your car and if you don't stop saying those bad words we are going to have to take your car away from you!"

Quinn came running to me and said " Look Mommy! Santa Claus covered the ground in glitter! That's pretty cool huh Mommy?"
Looking out the bedroom window it looks just like the ground is covered in gold glitter!
It was very cool!

Quinn said to me "Mommy it isnt dark out yet." And I said "It's almost dark." Then he said "Look Mommy the trees are turning into shadows!"

ha ha i said "well" and quinn said "well what mommy?"

I said "i dunno. its a deep subject isnt it?" he said " a deep subject is a mystery."

Today at the grocery store Quinn was singing the whole way through. When we got to the chip aisle a lady standing there said "It is so nice to hear a happy child in the store for a change. I've been listening to him sing through the entire store. He is SO happy. It's very nice. "

Quinn weighs 35.4 pounds and is 40 inches tall at age 3 yrs. 9 months and 22 days.

Quinn has been very curious about how his body functions and works. This is what he just told me:

"When we drink water it goes in our stomach and turns into a shadow. Then the shadow turns into pee and that's how pee gets there."

this morning quinn said "its a mystery daddy hurry hurry...its a mystery...there are tracks in the snow!"

daddy says "oh no where?

quinn says "out my bedroom window. we have to solve it"

so ..daddy and quinn looked out the window and solved the mystery...it was gray kitty walking in the snow.

I told Quinn we had to take Kesia to the doctor.

and he said "do you know what the kitty doctor is called.

I said "yes".

He said "what is it?"

I said "a veterinarian."

he said " yep that's right Pet-rinarian."

He loves to dress up!

Quinn calls Kesia the "achoo cat" becuz she sneezes.... and he cant quite pronounce "Pretty Girl" (the other cat) right. It is very cute. He wanted them to get on the couch with him.

Today when Quinn woke up from his nap he was begging us to help him find the toy the mail lady left him. We had no clue what he was talking about. After searching over an hour Quinn announced that he thought it was a dream.
Then he cried and cried because he wanted the toy back from his dream. Aww...i feel bad. he said he wants to take that toy from his dream. He said he wants us to take the toy out of his head.