Naked Baby!

Last night we had our friends Adam and Monica over for dinner and Miss Quinn had a hard time warming up. However, when Jay brought out "Naked Baby" Quinn was all smiles. It was hilarious.

Q and the Wooden Shoes

When I was little I absolutely loved to play with the wooden shoes my Grandma and Grandpa Meis brought back from Holland. I would always put them on and clumsily walk around. Now the shoes are a keepsake in our home and earlier this week Quinn discovered them. It will be a little while 'til she's walking around in them, but I do think Grandma and Grandpa were smiling down from heaven when they saw this.

More Dedication Photos!

As mentioned earlier, we forgot our camera at Quinn's dedication so our fabulous friend and Quinn's godmother, Laura Morse stepped in as photographer. The whole line of pics were delivered today so here are more shots of the people sharing Quinn's special day.

Mom, Dad & Q:

The Coffman crew:

Grandma Nan & Grandpa Gary:

And world's best Nanny, Morgan!

Quinn has been enjoying reading all her new bible stories this week. Right now she's really digging the Tiny Bear Bible from Grandma Nan and Grandpa Gary. She also liked the foam book from Papa and GG, but we took that away once she chewed off Jesus' face. It was a clearly sign of love, but still.

Ballerina Day!

Today it's "Dress Like A Ballerina Day" in the Syverson house. At least it is for Quinn anyway. When we were getting dressed this morning she got awfully excited when she saw the little ballerina outfit from Josie Bemis in the closet. Perhaps she's just as excited as mommy to see Black Swan or maybe she just likes tulle. Either way, she's pretty cute!

Note: there is a pretty pink flower that goes in the middle of the outfit. But Quinn pulled it off and now you can just see the "leaves." Have no fear Erin Bemis, I can fix that lickety-split before we send it back!

Baby Sign Language

Last night was our very first baby sign language class, a fun four-week session held at the Clive Library. The Bemis family tipped us off to the class -- it's a free way to start teaching the kiddos to communicate before they can talk. And whether or not we have a sign language genius on our hands, it's a nice thing for us to do as a family and a good way for Q to get some fellow bambino interaction.

There's a limit of 25 babies in the class and I feel like we had about that many tonight. I'm not sure what was more fun, learning the signs or watching all the little ones toddle around. Quinn was pretty calm for the first part, but then she got a little more excited at the end (and even got kisses from the Bemis boys!)

Here she is at home prepping for the class:

And here we are as a family at Baby Sign Language! (Notice the adorable outfit from Great Grandma Syrene seen in picture 1 didn't quite make it through dinner time.)

Quinn's Dedication!

The whole family was in town this weekend for Miss Quinn Marie's dedication at our church. It was a great weekend with Grandma Nan, Grandpa Gary, Papa Dave, G.G. and Uncle E. Jay surprised me with a birthday party on Saturday (which was awesome), but the real reason for celebrating was Quinn's dedication. She was pretty good throughout the church service and was a trooper while all the cute little infants were dedicated. Then we all went home for lasagna and cake!

Sadly, I was very neglectful of the camera all weekend AND I forgot to bring it to church, but luckily Laura was our stand-in photographer, so more pics will come!

Here's one of us with Quinn's awesome godparents, Eric & Laura. (Can you tell Q was sleepy?)

And this was taken at home before church (aka, before I forgot the camera). She might be tired, but she still loves G.G.!

Quinn's first cake. We let her have a TINY taste of frosting. We think she liked it. :)

We've said this before, but we are so blessed to have Quinn in our lives and so thankful for our loving family and friends! Thank you to everyone who was with us to celebrate with us this weekend!

Daddy's Skee-ball Apprentice

I think it's very apparent that Quinn is Daddy's little girl. She lights up when he walks in the room and she loves to play with him. Tonight they bonded over skee-ball. At first she watched very intently as Daddy played.

And then she started trying it out for herself!

I think it might be awhile 'til she's throwing fifties, but at least we know she likes our grown-up toy. And speaking of toys, she's starting to walk with the little dinosaur from Grandma Nan & Grandpa Gary! I would say this present gets a roar of delight! (Yes, I know how cheesy that was, but have you met Papa Dave?)