Mid-week love from our Sweet-Pea!

It's been a busy week so far in the Syverson house! Mama's been busy working and Quinn's been busy being Quinn. She's learned how to shake her head no and is working on yet another tooth. Therefore, she constantly has something in her mouth (more than usual, if you can believe it) and we didn't have the best night of sleep last night. But sleep or no sleep, she's still as cute as can be!

Last night she got to play with her bestie Alivia Grefe (while mom & dad enjoyed massages!) and tomorrow we're looking forward to a playdate tomorrow with Lucy Wittrock and the Bemis Boys. And the other exciting thing about tomorrow? Basketball starts again! Hooray for all of us!

The Baby Bear

Uncle E loves to narrate Quinn's life as a "baby cub" in his Crocodile Hunter voice. Well it's too bad he wasn't hear today because Quinn really looks like a baby bear in her snuggly little outfit. I'll have to do my best to fill in for him. Just picture the following in an Aussie accent. :)

Here's the baby bear with the mama bear. Not so sure what she thinks of that smelly mama bear.

The baby cub is trying her hand at walkin'. Getting ready to explore on her own.

Now the baby bear encounters the Millie pug. She eyes the Millie pug carefully as she tries to protect her own baby cub. She warns the Millie pug, "Don't you lay a paw my bear cub!"

Girl Time!

This weekend was the Coffman Girls' Weekend and what a weekend it was! Aunt Dani came to spend part of her spring break with us and luckily G.G. came too!

We shopped, watched basketball and just enjoyed watching Miss Quinn Marie. She got to show off her new standing skills and made us laugh hysterically playing with Mildred and shaking her head "no" when we asked her if she would say "dada." (No offense to Jay of course!)

Here's a pic of all the girls as we prepared to cheer on the Jayhawks in their first tournament win. Notice how Mildred had to be in the picture too!

As I mentioned we shopped a lot and we even had a fun night out on the town, but we had the most fun just girl-talking and hanging out with our favorite little girl. How many Coffman girls does it take to feed Quinn a bottle?

Three!

We're so glad Aunt Dani is moving closer to us, so she can see her auntie more frequently and can't wait for our next family girl time! Thanks Auntie Dan and G.G. for a great weekend! We love you!

The Battle over the Bear

Quinn absolutely loves to play with Millie. And now she absolutely loves to play with Millie's bear. We try not to let her get it in her mouth (ew!), but we do encourage the banter between the two of them. We just can't help ourselves, it's downright hilarious!

Quinn Marie is 9 months old!

Our little button is 9 months old today! My how time flies!

It's been a busy month for Miss Quinn Marie. Sadly, she was sick for half the month, but the rest of the time was full of fun. She is jabbering a TON! She frequently says Mama, Dada, and a whole bunch of other sounds that are just too darn cute. She’s also trying so desperately to stand and is walking around everything. I don’t think it will be long ‘til she’s standing all on her own!

She is quite the multi-tasker and is very determined. She still loves the game peek-a-boo and our new way to distract her during a diaper change is to sing “Little Bunny Foo-Foo.” (Might be a little inappropriate with the whole “bopping on the head” thing, but she just loves it.) Her favorite toys are her music table, dinosaur, Mildred and the skeeball machine. She continually makes us smile and we just love watching her grow!

Cruisin'

Apparently they call walking around stuff "cruising" in parenting world. Well Quinn certainly is cruisin' all over the place then. She walks all around the furniture and from one toy to another. Possibly the most fun is watching her cruise with her dinosaur.

Oh the wine!

The "Wall of Wine" narrated by Quinn Marie Syverson:

"Wow, that sure is a lot of wine. It's so mesmerizing."

"What, mom & dad? I'm not up to anything!"

"They told me no, but I really think I should go for it."

"Oh who cares what they say, I'm going to play!"