fired

i'm fired from blogging.  just.........so..........bad..........at it!  cortney p is making me feel bad about myself by posting like 6 blogs in one day.   boy howdy is it a good thing no one knows about mine ;)...WAY less pressure.  so here's what's new.  Q is walking. EVERYWHERE!  he started maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago.  matt and i started tentatively sitting across from each other to see how far he could go, but we only did it like 3 times and when he got up to 10 steps we stopped so fast you would have thought the house was on fire.  'no way. we are not encouraging this ridiculous walking behavior!' we said to ourselves.  then we dropped him off at my auntie and uncles in renton to have some boy bonding with their 4 boys and so we could go on a date to see Aurthur, the movie (which is super FUNNY!), anyways, we got back and he was standing in the middle of their dining room like he owned the place!!  he had been walking around the house since we left and they just assumed it was normal.  well...no stopping him at that point.  now he's very close to running and he's basically OVER crawling.  he can even get himself up without using a wall or chair, he just get's up.  it's amazing and not the end of my life as every negative nancy says it will be.  it's mostly just fun, and he's just so happy all the time since he can go wherever he wants.  it does look pretty crazy cause he's very teeny....he looks like a baby monkey walkin around. i like it.

 here is a mish mash of photos from the passed few months.

 

  Quinn is also driving now, not just walking

 we pulled out the hammock and we've been using it non-stop! Q LOVES it.

this little zebra his uncle chais got him in Mexico. it needed some kisses

he has a HUGE crush on auntie kendra.  he snuggles her so much it makes matt and i jealous

he is very very a boy and being nakey is the BEST!

in the dressing room at H&M he could not handle that baby in, what he thought, was a window. he kept looking behind it to see where the other baby was.  we spent a good 1/2 hour in there looking for that other baby

his favorite time of day is when daddy comes home.  he used to crawl at the speed of light toward the door when daddy came in it, but now he runs :)

my parents have been coming up at least once a month, my mom can't handle missing quinns new phases, so she drags my dad up and they crash on the blow-up bed in the living room.  we call it the holiday inn express.  it's all very classy. 

quinn has become aware and basically in love with other babies and kids...beckett, his friend-o, is one of them

so my marvelous bday present that i alluded to in my first post was a spectacular sewing machine...yay!  i have the best family and husband ever.  so i've been putting pheobe, that's her name, to good use making pillows!  i collected doilies for like 7 months so that i could make a million pillows out of vintage cloth napkins with doilies on them. have i ever mentioned that i'm about 85 years old in my heart? well i am. and i LOVE doilies.  so lindsey greene and i are having a garage sale this weekend that we are hoping will be the most adorable thing that ever hit kirkland...or at least north rose hill.  we will sell a couple sweet pieces of vintage, refinished furniture, and a bunch of stuff that has been living in my garage not getting used, and the old lady pillows that i'm making! oh i hope and hope and hope it's nice out!  the plan is to decorate my front yard and make it look fun and like an outdoor living room, but if it rains like the forcast says, then we will do it in the garage and it will be about 78% less cute.  but whatevs. 

 these are my first two homemade pillows.  

i've made 3 more. i love them so much i wish i needed a million pillows but i surely do not. the one on the left has found a snug little home on my bed though...it's a terrible photo but the pillow looks cute