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loween so we decided to have a penguin party i made penguin cupcakes you have to see the book hello cupcake if you ever host parties that turned out super cute if i do say so myself i have to credit the excellent instructions not my own skill i also made an igloo cake because the cupcakes were better to look at than to eat because the penguin was made from mini donuts and donut holes on top of a cupcake and i couldn t find any good mini donuts anywhere i m sorry i don t have pictures to include we don t have enough room on the computer to download any recent pics right now i ll try to remember to add them when we get them downloaded quinn is such a little character he s a lady s man like bennett was but a little more subtle he went for his 12 month checkup yesterday and he was really putting on a show for the women in the lobby smiling and laughing and waving and trying to walk around to the back of their desk yes he s walking now but he doesn t like to try it unless you hold his hand he ll take 6 7 steps while he s playing but he s not convinced it s his most efficient mode of transportation yet he s not quite 20 pounds and 29 5 inches much smaller than bennett was at this age but still very healthy and on target or advanced developmentally he understands a lot of what we say and he s learning new words all the time he does this cute thing where he points to something and says in a questioning tone that or what it s adorable yesterday he was on the changing table and pointed to the wall and said that wall he s so smart kids don t usually put two words together like that at such a young age i wish i could put a current picture of him up right now he s so darn cute he s got huge blue eyes and chubby cheeks and his first haircut makes him look so grown up i know i m a little bit biased but i get a lot of confirmation of his adorableness from people in stores and restaurants so i m pretty sure he s empirically gorgeous quinn is such an affectionate little guy one of the first things he learned to do after getting a modicum of control over his neck muscles was give people kisses he goes through stages where he s more generous or more stingy with them but they are so sweet if a little damp he gives the sweetest hugs around the neck too he ll get excited and give a little squeal and throw his little arms around my neck and squeeze while grabbing my hair and it just steals my heart he loves to sit on my lap and cuddle but he s not a mommy snob he loves to snuggle with daddy and uncle ty and grammie and granddaddy too i ve never seen a little baby who loves his daddy quite as much as quinn does when steve comes home from work quinn lights up and gives an excited shriek then if steve doesn t come straight to quinn and pick him up quinn will cry like his little heart is broken if i tell him no he usually thinks it s funny but if steve or ty tell him no even gently and sweetly he ll cry like you set his favorite toy on fire sometimes he even cries if he overhears one of them say the word no in a conversation with someone else he s so sweet and tenderhearted bennett and quinn love each other so much quinn s first word was brother well it was bwuh vuh but close enough he can say bennett now too bennett got in trouble last night and had to spend some time in the crib upstairs and quinn kept looking at me with a quizzical expression and saying benna benna it was so cute they like to play peek a boo with each other and they both think it s hilarious when bennett uses his toy giraffe s tail to tickle quinn they give each other hugs and kisses all the time but bennett usually holds on just a little too long because he loves his baby so much sometimes i hear bennett explaining things to quinn or singing to him or telling him a story quinn is so lucky to have such a sweet loving big brother i wish every baby could have a big brother like bennett yes i know that s physically impossible but it would make the world a better place i realize that this post probably isn t interesting to anyone except me and my kids grandparents but i couldn t let quinn s birthday go by without singing his praises and bragging on how precious he is we are so blessed to have such sweet loving smart fun cute wonderful sons posted by unknown at 9 45 am 40 comments friday april 16 2010 who needs sleep insomnia stinks it s 4 17 am and i don t feel the slightest hint of sleepiness i have kids who do me the favor of sleeping till after 9 am most days and my awesome brother takes care of them and lets me sleep in even later than that most days but if i were to fall asleep right this second i would have to sleep till 12 17 pm to get the 8 hours i desperately need to function properly not that i ever actually get it and there s something unseemly about sleeping past noon when you re not a teenager a drunkard or infected with mono not that i haven t done it it s just not something i would do if i could help it oh who am i kidding i would totally sleep past noon all the time if i could but since i rarely get to sleep before 1 30 am it s not quite as scandalous as all that why is it that it seems lazy and irresponsible to sleep past noon even if you fell asleep at 5 in the morning my mother in law seems to think i m a good for nothing because i sleep later than she deems proper she doesn t care that i actually sleep less than she does i do my sleeping at different hours than she does and that means i am ruining my life her son s life and her grandsons lives evidently sleeping from 3 am to 10 am makes you a bad person and sleeping from 10 pm to 6 am makes you a good person okay that s not fair for me to say it s not my sleeping habits that make me a bad person and have me ruining everyone s life it s everything else about me she seems to think that i chose to have insomnia and that if i really wanted to go to sleep before midnight i could even though i ve never been able to manage that even as a preschooler when your earliest memory is when you were barely two and you were lying in bed trying to fall asleep while your parents watched johnny carson it doesn t give you a lot of hope for establishing an early bedtime i m afraid this insomnia is hereditary my dad was an insomniac most of his life and it s only recently that he s developed the ability to fall asleep quickly except now he wakes up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night all the time poor little bennett didn t fall asleep till 1 15 this morning and it s not an unusual occurrence he sometimes lays there and stares at the ceiling for an hour or more i might get a little frustrated if i didn t know exactly how he feels speaking of the sweet little guy he just came into our room and climbed into the empty spot that steve just vacated poor guy feels like it s sleeping in to get up at 4 am for work because he used to have to get up at 3 am i should probably break bennett of the habit of coming into our room to sleep in the middle of the night but i have to admit that i love it when he climbs in and snuggles up with me i know it won t be long till snuggling with mommy will be considered cruel and unusual punishment and not too much longer after that when i m up late worrying about where he is and what he s up to at least it won t be tough to stay up till his curfew and not just because of the insomnia mostly because his curfew will be 9 pm posted by unknown at 4 16 am 10 comments any one find the title of the previous post hilarious you know because it says the pictures are new and i posted them oh six months ago i m a bad bad blogger it s not my fault it s those darn adorable sweet smart funny cuddly busy precious practically perfect kids they have this nasty habit of demanding to be fed several times a day not to mention the times they have the temerity to want my attention before they came along i had tons of time at my mind numbingly boring job to post several times a week i even did weekly top 8 lists which kept me very amused not so much anyone else but since a blog is basically a diary for those of us narcissistic enough to think other people want to read our pointless ramblings i don t really care if they amused anyone but me now it s been so long that i wasn t sure if i should ever bother to post here again because it s so embarrassing to have such a huge gap between posts but i have my own little red netbook thingy now thanks to my awesome husband and brother best christmas ever so i have a little more freedom to blog and still be a decent mother till i got the netbook i had to do all my computing upstairs but the boys do all their playing downstairs which we in the business call a dilemma but gina you say christmas was almost four months ago and you re just now getting around to blogging again what took you so long an excellent question imaginary blog reader mostly it was because i was busy being a good mom good wife good daughter good sister good granddaughter relatively decent friend and terrible horrible awful dispicable reviled daughter in law the usual but a little of it was because we ve had about 6 days since christmas when everyone in the household was healthy at the same time and the rest of it was the afore mentioned hesitance to post when it had been so long since the last one the bigger the gap the greater my reluctance to post and draw attention to my laxity vicious circle blahblahblah fishcakes anyway tonight i have insomnia so i decided to post something but it s super boring and self centered so now i m tempted to delete it without posting but i suppose that would be dumb so i ll just post it and then post something slightly more interesting right after this yeah yeah that s the ticket posted by unknown at 2 52 am 5 comments saturday october 17 2009 a few new pictures steve bennett and quinn are downstairs playing with the electric train so i thought i d take a second and slap up a few pictures i don t have time to put them in any particular order so i ll just tell you that the ones where quinn looks younger were taken when he was about 2 1 2 months old and the ones where he looks older were taken when he was about 5 months old bennett s about 2 1 2 in case you can t keep up these brothers love each other little mister s new funny face bennett s in the background putting on his pj s everything is hilarious church was exhausting and now you want a photo shoot practicing a little air guitar is two months old too young to start rockin the free world been a long time since i rock and rolled think i should try out for the touring company of aladdin thanks for the crazy hat auntie shelly my bro and i have made good use of it go ducks quinn is almost 5 1 2 months old now he s so sweet and happy and big and healthy too his favorite new thing is giving us baby kisses he gets really indignant when he wants to kiss you and you don t bring him up to your cheek he knows what the word kiss is and he ll give you one if you ask it s so precious and i m sure i m not biased at all he and bennett must give each other at least 100 kisses a day which never stops being adorable we re so blessed to have such sweet boys bennett is such a sweet smart kid he sings all the time and gets pretty darn close to the right lyrics and the right tune most of the time too he s learning lots of words in spanish and he recognizes a good share of his letters and numbers in fact he taught himself to write several letters last week before any of us realized he could do it he s a funny affectionate helpful all around adorable kid we re so proud of him we just wish more of our friends and family could get to know him better we re planning to be in portland for christmas which we know is a tough time to try to fit in any non required visiting but we hope we ll get to see at least a few friends while we re there we can t wait posted by unknown at 6 36 pm 12 comments monday july 27 2009 mamma and the cute boys on tour my best friend from high school is getting married this coming weekend so we re making a quick trip to portland steve can only stay for the weekend but the boys and i will be staying with my parents for at least a week the first week of august if you re going to be around and you wanna see some of this cuteness come find us we ll be at my parents house and i m guessing that if you know me well enough to want to see me you know where mis padres live if not call me or take your chances with leaving a comment here to give me your number i won t have much access to the internet so if i don t get back to you please don t take it personally unless i just don t like you posted by unknown at 7 52 pm 12 comments friday may 22 2009 he s here edited in red because i forgot stuff i m sorry i kept you waiting so long for news i was waiting till i had the pictures downloaded off the camera we have a new thingy for pictures and i don t know how to use it so i had to wait for help without further delay here s our newest family member quinn reuel stevenson kortan born may 5 2009 at 8 03 p m 8 pounds 10 ounces 20 inches the meaning of stevenson is pretty obvious quinn reuel means wise and strong friend of god reuel is an ancient hebrew name that comes from the same word as ruth which is my mom s middle name it s also the name of at least one of the fathers of the church of christ and my nerdiest friends will recognize it as one of the rs in jrr tolkien s name i m having trouble getting a space between the paragraphs and it s driving me nuts here s how it went down for those of you who are interested in my agony the doctor was busy with a procedure when we arrived at the hospital so they didn t actually start the induction till we d twiddled our thumbs for almost 2 1 2 hours then 4 hours later we discovered the first round of medicine didn t do much so we had to wait another 4 hours to find out the second dose didn t do much we were pretty freakin bored and irritated by the time anything started to happen and the fact that i d only gotten about 3 hours of sleep the night before didn t help the doctor broke my water at about 5 40 i was at 3 cm and i got in the jacuzzi tub a few minutes later i was in hard labor by around 6 p m and at 7 cm before 7 p m when i got out of the tub the doctor had gone home for dinner but the nurses called him when they realized i d gone from 7 cm to 8 cm in about 5 minutes he told them to call when i got to 10 which wasn t much later at that point i was pretty much incoherent with the pain and i informed them that i was pushing no matter what anyone thought about it i only got a few seconds of rest between contractions and i felt like i was giving birth to a speeding freight train with sharpened wheels i have no idea how long i pushed but thank goodness it wasn t 2 1 2 hours like last time it hurt so much worse this time that i would have passed out if it had lasted much longer the doctor lives 5 minutes away from the hospital but he only got there in time for the last 3 or 4 pushes i was 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