Get Ready Gulf Shores, Here We Come!

I finally convinced Walter to take a beach trip! We planned to go Memorial Day weekend. He didn't realize it was a holiday weekend and I wasn't about to tell him! :) Some things are better left unknown.

It didn't take long to figure out we have to pack the whole house to go on a trip! I spent all of Thursday night packing after I got home from gymnastics. I packed, packed, and packed some more.

We loaded everything in the car that could stand the heat for a day. Friday, we went to school as normal. Around 12:00, day care called and GUESS WHAT?1?1 Daniel was throwing up! Give me a break, I thought. I took half the day off of work and went home with all the kids trying to decide if Daniel had a virus or just had something that didn't agree with his little tummy. The options were to not go to the beach, take Daniel and hope he got better, or leave him with old faithful (my Mom) and take the rest of the crew. It was a hard decision because David was very excited AND we had already packed!

When we got home, I gave Daniel some sweet potatoes. Half way through, they came back up. ALL OF THEM! Gross! I got him cleaned up and decided he was sick! Walter and I dixcussed it and decided to let him be pampered by Granny while we headed off to the beach. So we did.

Other than missing the WILD ONE, the trip was good. We went to the beach Saturday morning. David boogy boarded and Dillan ate sand and shells. We put him in the edge of the ocean and he liked it.  Didn't even phase him.

Next was the pool. David played and Dillan chilled in his float. He was so calm and layed back in the pool. He even dozed off a couple of times while David played volleyball.


Sunday, we went to the pool again.  David found some friends to play with.  Dillan ate his float and got sleepy again. 

Mom and Dad were happy because we got to eat seafood at a new place called Shaggy's at Zeke's Landing and my favorite, The Shrimp Basket.  YUMMMM!



Beach trip= SUCCESS. Now to convince Walter we need to go back for Daniel to have his 1st beach trip. :)~

Six Year and 9 Month Check-Up

Last week my Dad and I took the kids to Dr. Carlile for all of their check-ups.  David wanted to know if he was going to get a shot and I told him I didn't know.  He is used to seeing his brothers get shots now.  We got there and they weighed and measured them beginning with David.  He weighed 51 pounds and was 48 inches tall.  This put him in the 75th percentile for boys his age.  His eyesight was 20/20 and his hearing was good. 

Dillan was next.  He weighed in at 21 pounds even.  I can't remember his length.  Sorry, Mommy brain.  I do remmeber he was about 1/2 inch longer than Daniel. 

Daniel came last.  We thought he would weigh much less than Dillan.  He feels and looks as if that would be the case.  We were all wrong.  He weighed 20 pounds 3.5 ounces.  Not much less than Dillan.  The doctor said they all looked great.  No one would need a shot today. They were all up to date!  Shewwww!!!  Thank goodness because I didn't bring the Tylenol. 

Cowboy Up! David's 6!

David James Quinn turned 6 years old on Friday, March 23.  What an exciting day for him!  I woke up early to cook him pancakes, which is his favorite.  Walter rolled his new bike in and he sat on it for a while.  It was the last day before Spring Break.  His class had fun activities planned.  They watched movies and had a special snack for him with cupcakes.  He also got birthday spankings.  He was really nervous abot that part.  He thought his class would want them to be hard!  I even got a picture of it.  His face was SO red.  A little girl in his class, Hanna, even asked him why his face was red! 

Mrs. Kelley brought eggs to class and they began hatching on David's bday.  She let him hold one of them and pet it.

After school, we went home and cooked homemade pizza together.  David likes to cook and is good at it.  My mom and Walter's parents ended up coming over, so they ate with us.  After supper was cake time.  David blew out his candle and made a wish.  David opened their presents and got a fishing pole and some fishing things to use in the pond.  Since then he has caught some crappie and bream with the pole.  He and Walter like going outside and fishing. 

The next day was his party at The Iron Horse Ranch.  What a cool place to have a party.  Anita did a great job.  David and his friends rode horses, had a marshmallow fight, roped a fake cow, and petted the donkey.  The kids could run around and be kids. 

David is 6 and a HUGE blessing to Walter and I.  He is amazing to us.  He reads like a third grader, barely skipping a beat when he comes to big words.  He is drawn to anything science.  His math skills are great.  Out of everything, the love he shows to people around him is the greatest.  He has concern for others and he shows that in the way he acts and the prayers he prays.  I pray that we will be good examples to him and encourage him in all that he does, jsut like we promised God we would do when we dedicated him to the Lord.

Oh Toothless One

Dillan and Daniel will be 9 months old Friday, May 4th! It is hard to believe how far God has brought our family. Daniel is the proud owner of 7 pearly white teeth. However, Dillan must be broke cause he is a toothless one- 0 teeth for him so far! I think he may be finally getting one because he has been extremely fussy this weekend. We shall see. Watching two babies grow up at the same time is interesting. If I didn't birth them myself, I would swear they are not twins! Atleast they will always be individuals to me and everyone else. There timing in learning and growing is totally different as you can see below.

Daniel

• crawls
• pulls up on everything
•  puts everything in his mouth
• crawls on top of Dillan and other babies at day care
• says "dada" and "mama"
• is nicknamed "the wild one"

Dillan can:

• crawl
• hold his bottle
• put food in his mouth
• says "bubba" "dada" "ta" and babbles
• cool and calm (most of the time)

Things are always wild around here.  One of the kids always needs us.  Luckily, most of the time it is not simultanious.  Good thing God gave us a good sense of humor because "normal" is not in our vocabulary.  Daniel at a yellow jacket somehow at day care and no one knew until he threw it up in his sleep.  Luckily, the yellow jacket was the only one harmed.  The beast got a hold of him!  :)

Daniel also ate half of my magazine cover the same day as the yellow jacket incident.  Luckily, I scraped that out of his mouth.  David fell out of the trampoline WITH A NET ON IT.  Only he could do that.  He got a nice mouth full of dirt and a hurt ego.  Nothing a lil loving and a water hose couldn't fix. 

Well, until the next big adventure...

Did you just bust out with that?

I can not express enough how proud I am to be David's mama. He brings so much joy and laughter to our family. Today, we were riding in the car and I said "I love you David James" and he said "Did you just bust out with that?" We both started laughing. It is times like that I love the most.

He turned 6 on March 23 and we celebrated by having pancakes for breakfast (that was an early morning) and we made homemade pizza together for supper. He had cupcakes at school with his friends. His teacher, Mrs. Kelley, had chicken eggs in the classrooma nd they hatched on his day. He got to hold one of them. My mom and Karla and Jim came over and spent time with him. His Grandma and Papa J gave him a fishing pole and he caught his first crappie out of the pond with it.

His party was at Iron Horse Ranch. Perfect day to be outside. He and his friends rode horses, had a marshmallow and balloon fight, and a horse race. I enjoyed watching all of them play together.






Dillan and Daniel are almost 8 months! Oh my goodness! My babies can do so much more now. They are such good babies. They are happy (unless hungry or sleepy) and smile a lot.
Dillan says bubba, dada, and ta. Daniel says dada. Dillan is toothless and Daniel has 5 teeth. Dillan gets up on his knees and Daniel pretty much crawls. He always goes straight for the floor plug! He is the mischievious one who is into EVERYTHING. Dillan is content just laying or sitting and playing.
They love their bubba. Dillan's favorite thing to do is kiss all over him and leave slobber on his cheek. You would think David would find that nasty, but he loves it! In fact, he asks him to do it! Daniel likes to follow David everywhere and play peek-a-boo with David. They play copycat too. I hope this continues for a long time.
Again, God has blessed us beyond measure. Thank you for all the prayers sent up while we were expecting them.

Time Flies

I have been wanting to write a new post, but it is impossible to do so when you can't rember your account information. Yeah, me, not remembering something. SURPRISE!
Anyway, a lot has happened in the last month. First of all, Daniel and Dillan are 6 months old now. I would give you an update on the size, but I forgot that appointment so we will have to wait until next week. However, I did remember Dillan's physical therapy appointment on the same day, at the same time. How that happened, I do not know. My organizational skills have gone out the window. No need to worry, I am gaining them back! Since the last post, the boys have learned a lot of new things. Here are just a few: they both eat fruits and veggies, but it doesn't seem to curb their milk intake much yet, they roll over both ways, they laugh out loud at random things,
Dillan is a cuddler and sleeper, Daniel is a jumper and has found his feet. It's fun watching them change.
David is still great with his brothers. I LOVE listening to him talk to them. He is wonderful at comforting them. He says things like "It's okay, your brother is here and I won't let anything happen" or "I love you, don't cry". David also can read. When I say read, I mean read! He reads words that are not phonemically spelled. His intelligence amazes me.

We also moved into our new house FINALLY! Thank you Jesus! We have so much more room now. The living room is still full with 2 swings, 2 bouncers, 1 activity centers, 2 bumbos, and a playmat. Whatever, we have babies. Everything seems huge to us right now. It seems as if it takes forever to get from our room to the living room and such. We are used to taking a few steps. We still have work to do around here like hanging things on the wall, organizing the storage room, and then building a shop.
I don't look forward to decorating. That is just not my thing. I am not good at it and I just don't enjoy it either. It frustrates me. I need a store that has everything you need to decorate a room in a package, not sold seperately. That would be awesome!

Did you say they are 5 months old???

5 months... where has the time gone? Our sweet peas are learning and growing exremely fast! On January 4th, they turned 5 months old. It was their first day back to day care since we got out of school for CHRISTmas. When I picked them up that day, their teacher said "They sure have grown some attitudes!" An attitude could be good. I mean, you don't want people to run over you. In a baby's world, I guess that means if I don't want to lay here don't make me, or if I want some food, give it to me!

They are both great babies! I guess you would now consider them "easy" babies. They go to sleep pretty easily, especially my sleepy head, Dillan. They like baths now. They go 3-4 hours between feedings. Dillan sleeps all night most of the time. Daniel usually wakes up to eat around 4-5 and then goes back to sleep. There spit up problem doesn't seem to be AS bad. That doesn't mean they have stopped, just that they don't smell like throw up all the time!

We are definately blessed with preemie babies who are right on track. Here is what they are into now.
Dillan

• eats 6 ounces



• smiles



• laughs out loud (and it is funny)



• babbles



• sucks on ALL 4 fingers



• cuddles

Daniel

• eats 6 ounces



• smiles



• laughs out loud



• babbles



• sucks on his thumb



• kicks



• hits object hanging



• grasp the back of his head