Going backwards

Quincy is still doing great at moving himself backwards, even if he doesn't mean to. He sometimes plays in front of Miles play tent, and suddenly is in hiding.

Starting to back into the tent:

Going:

Going:
Gone!
Hey! What happened? Where am I?

Brothers

These two are starting to play together a bit more, it's mostly still playing side-by-side on a good day, and stealing toys from each other the rest of the time. But the together play still warms my heart.

Standing

Quincy has been standing while holding on to our hands, for a long time, but he has always been very wobbly and we needed to basically support him. Not so anymore! This morning he surprised me by standing up at his toy - holding onto it of course - but standing very stable and playing with the buttons on the toy! (Don't mind the messy, wet hair and shirt, we had just finished lunch, and he had gotten lunch all over his face, hair and under the bib!)

Seriously!?

It is snowing out right now. Less than two weeks ago we had a decent size snowstorm (or what qualifies for one around here). This past weekend was in the 70s, shorts, sandals and beach weather. And now snow, again.

Get Fit week 10

Welllll, this week was not such a good week for getting fit. We both ate pretty bad in the first half of the week. Mike was good about working out all week. I worked out this morning. I had a tough time adjusting to the time change this week, and since we do our workouts at the crack of dawn (no offense Dawn!), I had trouble getting out of bed and then even more trouble cooperating with the workout routines. But I was up this morning and back on track. Just in time for our day off tomorrow :)

But on a good note, this morning I found that I had to tighten the belt loop one more notch, so it must not have been that bad of a week.

Trying to crawl

Quincy is still trying to crawl. He can move and get to things that are nearby to him, but he is either turning in circles or doing a modified army-style crawl. More like a caterpillar wiggle. He can't seem to figure out to move his arms forward while he is up on his hands and knees. He is good about trying different things, now he is getting up on his toes and hands, and trying to move his feet forward, which of course only launches him forward and down since he is not moving his hands. He does sometimes get to the toy he wants by doing it this way, but he usually lands on the toy with his face.

Kisses and Momma

In the last couple of weeks I've started to notice that Quincy is trying to give me kisses. He grabs my cheeks and brings our faces together, with his mouth wide open, aiming for my mouth! He will sometimes even kiss me if I ask for a kiss, but only if he is not being distracted by anything else. He has done it enough times now that I can confidently say it is not a coincidence. He has even given Mike a few kisses.

He also is saying Momma! At first it was only when he was crying, and again it took me a while to realize that he may be saying it purposefully. A few days ago he was playing in his excersaucer and just making some random vocal noises, not crying, and said, clear as day, Momma. I came running and told him I heard him say Momma. He then gave me the biggest smile ever!