Quinn is 17 months old!

Happy 17-month Birthday little peanut!

Well, little????? Not so little anymore I would say. Our girl is getting so big and smart.
Our days have been looking different lately. This came along with the disappearance of her morning nap about 1,5 to 2 weeks ago. Quinn normally gets up anywhere between 6.30 and 8 am. I try to stay ahead of her and be ready by the time she wakes up, which I manage to do most of the time (except when she is really awake and ready to get out at 6.30am....). Then normally between 11 and 11.30 am we start lunch and after that it's naptime around noon. On good days (most of the time) she sleeps about 3 to 3.5 hours, but sometimes only 2 hours. I love her long naps, because it allows me to get housework done, do some dinner preparations and still have some me-time, which is mainly laying down for a while. Coming to the end of pregnancy and not sleeping very good at night, a daytime nap really can do wonders :-)
Mornings can be long sometimes, especially when she's up early and we don't have anywhere to go. But in general, she's doing really good on this 1 nap a day routine. I'm surprised how quickly she changed over.

Here are a few things that interest her at 17 months:
* animals: she loves going to the Zoo to check out the animals and feed the girafs.
* books: she gets them out several times a day. She has her favorites, which she picks first, but most of the time every single one gets opened up.....
* closing things: we have to be quick, because she closes the door of the fridge, garbage or dishwasher before we get a change to put anything in it.
* music: it's amazing how she remembers songs from music class or tunes she hears on tv or from her toys. Every day before naptime I turn on the 'dancing with Teddy' song from music class and she automatically goes get her teddy bear and dances with him. It's adorable to see and I know I have to try to get this on video, but anytime she sees the video, her attention goes to the videocamera and teddy gets thrown on the floor.....

I just finished a video of her first year (finally) and I realize that we haven't been filming much in her second year at all yet. I'm going to try to get the camera out more again, because there are so many fun moments of her that we should capture. But as I just mentioned, once the camera is in view, she stops doing what she's doing...... 

33 weeks pregnant.....

After 33 weeks......it's about time for a belly picture.

I haven't been taking regular pictures of my belly as when I was pregnant with Quinn. I feel bad, this baby is already being deprived....It's just so much different though being pregnant while having another little toddler already walking around. Time just flies by. And so does this pregnancy in a way. And when I think of all the things left to do before baby can actually come.....Are we going to make this in (max!) 7 more weeks??????......Most importantly: getting Quinn out of the crib and into her new bed and bedroom! We are planning to start with this after 4th of July weekend. Hopefully we will have her room ready by then and the transition goes smooth.

The pregnancy itself is luckily going pretty smooth so far. Besides the regular aches and pains that come along with the third trimester, I cannot complaint too much I guess. I feel more backpain than with Quinn, but that probably has something to do with me picking up and holding Quinn a lot.
I'm a little bit nervous of how Quinn is going to react when the baby is finally here and how I am going to do dividing my attention between her and the little one and how I'm going to organize the day with two kids. I'm sure it will all work out (it will have to), but that has been on my mind a lot lately.
Those who really know me, I'm a big fan of structure and routines. I might have to deal with a little less structure for a while......Luckily my parents will be here in those first few weeks to help out again, especially since it's the most busy time of the year at work for Ryan.
Anyway, lets not jump ahead too far and first concentrate on the things to be done before the baby is here: Quinn's room, baby room and basement bedroom. That will be the new "bedroom" for my parents, since the guestroom is Quinn's room now. After that, we're ready for baby Everson #2!!

Happy Father's Day!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO THE MOST WONDERFUL AND SWEET DADDY IN THE WORLD!
We were up north on Father's Day, so Quinn brought her present for daddy to the cottage.

Helping daddy read his card......

.....and opening his present.
With all the tools Ryan has in the garage, we were surprised he doesn't have a little hand shovel and other hand tools. When he was planting the tomato plants a few weeks ago, he actually needed to "borrow" Quinn's plastic tools to dig a hole for the plants, but that didn't work of course. So Quinn and I decided that would be the perfect father's day gift for this year!

 

Unfortunately the weather wasn't very Summer-like, it rained all day long. So we headed home early and spend the rest of the day together at home. We had pizza for supper and Zesty's frozen custard for dessert (yummie). After Quinn was sleeping, we watched a movie and we both even made it to the end of the movie. So despite the weather, what a wonderful day after all!

Pool party's @ home

Our hottub in the sunroom hasn't been working for a long long time, but Ryan finally got it fixed so we can use it again. Quinn was all ready for a pool party with daddy (being pregnant, I'm not going in the hottub....)

Slowly getting into the warm water....

wow, this water is warm. The look on her face says it all.....

Lets just sit on the side and get used to the water temperature first..... 

After that, she was ready to go swimming!!!!

And then we had a pool party outside as well! Yes, the weather finally got nicer, so we filled up the turtle for Quinn to play in.

This time the water was cold, but it didn't take long before she was dumping buckets of water over her own belly....

On top of the pool fun at home, we also started with parent/toddler swimclasses this summer. Quinn and I go in the pool together and we sing songs, play with water toys and do all kind of fun activities with the other kids and mommies.
Quinn loves it in the water. Of course I'm right there with her, but it's a good way for her to get used to the water and prepare her for swimming in the lake up north!

Show Week @ The Little Gym

It was the last class of the winter/spring semester at the Little Gym, so time to show off what we have learned during classes. Quinn is feeling very much at home in her class. She listens good and participates in all the activities, but sometimes just takes off on her own as well.

Playing with the balls is one of the most favorite activities of all kids in class and it's so much fun to see them put the balls back in the bucket when it's time to clean them up. They're all so helpful!

At the end of class everyone got to walk the steps up onto the "stage" where Ms Ashley handed out medals.

"TADAA!!!!!"
She looked so proud and couldn't wait to show dad when he came home from work that evening.

Unfortunately, this was the last class period at the Little Gym, since the Little Gym of Green Bay is closing. We're so sad, because we loved going there and the program was really good. I would have loved to take our new baby there as well.....We'll have to find another place where we can workout with are kids! 

Jameson's baptism

Our good friends Jason and Karri Luebke asked me if I wanted to be the godmother for their little boy Jameson. Well, they didn't have to ask me twice. I was so honered.
The baptism was planned on June 5th at St Johns church in Little Suamico.

Jason and Karri's oldest daughter Addison talking to Quinn. She's like an older sister to her. So cute.

It was a warm day and very warm in church as well. I think the little men felt relieved when he got some cooling water on his little head. He did awesome during the entire service (it lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes!!!!).

Quinn held up pretty good too. For the first 45 minutes that is. After that, Ryan took her outside where she could walk around and babble.....

After church we went to the Luebke's house where we had a wonderful lunch and the kids got to play. Unfortunately we had to cut it short, since Quinn hadn't slept yet all morning and was so ready for a good nap.