Blizzard of 2013

     Quinlan experienced his first blizzard a couple of weeks back! He was fascinated with the huge snow flakes and loved looking out the window. Both his mom and dad were home with him Friday-Sunday, then mom headed in to MGH while daddy enjoyed another 2 days off with Q.
     Overall we got 25" of snow with the storm starting Friday around 3pm, the heaviest snow after 8pm, and the snow finally subsiding Saturday morning. Thankfully both Main St and our side street were well plowed and the car was easy enough to dig out.

     Of course all that snow did not stop Quinlan from getting outside. He enjoyed a couple of walks in the carrier with his parents, and as you can see his little legs have gotten too long for the coat so we were sure to bundle him up.
     It was fun to see all the snow, but the coolest was the snow owl that someone did on one of the side streets near us.

Feeding Himself

      Quinlan started feeding himself a couple of weeks ago and now there is no stopping him! We started giving him Cheerios so he could get used to picking them up and chewing. Previously there had been some issues with Quinlan gulping solid pieces and gagging or choking, so we took this slowly with our mantra being "Chew, chew, chew!"
     He mastered it within a week and we were able to upgrade to sweet potato chunks and soaked prunes. He now enjoys bread with olive oil (dad introduced him to that), bananas,  breast milk & egg omelets, lentils mushed up in a ball, and avocado.

   



     Quinlan now refuses the spoon or tries to feed himself with it, so we have gotten creative with how we present food to him: mash in some cottage cheese with the lentil balls, adding oatmeal to the egg omelets. Q has his dad getting creative with the meals and he loves sampling whatever dad prepares.... including smoked fish!
      The neatest part is that he is now selective, and you can tell what he likes by what he reaches for first. Bread and bananas now have to be added to the plate last as he would eat a meal of just those if given the chance to choose.
      All this food helps him grow, in fact, check out all his hair in the picture below!

Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy

     Quinlan has been enjoying his doorway jumper that was given to us by our friends Ted and Juliana. We have tried putting him in from time to time and he has showed little to no interest until recently when dad decided to try again.
     Quinlan immediately started bouncing and doing what we refer to as his little jig. It looks a little like Irish step dancing and we are so excited to report that we got it on video. If we figure out how to post it online, there will definitely be a link on this page.

     And he loves trying to move the beads along the wire with this toy given to us by Tina and Mohit.  He will play for 30 minutes with this, either in the doorway jumper or sitting up, and has gotten quite good and grasping and moving the beads with his fingers.
      Kristen, his nanny, has even been able to use this toy as incentive to get Quinlan to work on pushing up from side lying into sitting as Q is still not transitioning positions without assistance. Oh, and he now will call out to you to let you know when he would like that assistance!

Sometimes he just loves to bounce, and does so on command when you say: Bouncy, Bouncy Bouncy!