This ones for "The Birds"

I have to relay this story - I wish I had pictures, but one never knows when something like this will happen. Tuesday evening, I was in the backyard looking around at how much of a jungle my grass had turned into. Michelle came out with Quin and we started talking about things we'd like to do to the yard (plant a tree here, take down the clothes-posts here, things like that), when all of the sudden a bird hopped out of the really long grass. Now, normally if you get too close to a bird, it takes off. This one did not as it looked very young. I stomped the ground near it to get it to fly away. As I did, a robin flies down screaming right at Michelle's head! I mean, this bird is majorly angry - I was probably stomping too close to one of it's chicks.

Anyway, this bird literally dive-bombed Michelle who ran away screaming from the screeching bird. It landed on the ground and continued to screech until we went away. I seriously felt like I was living a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds. A little creepy, but it was funny at the same time! Just a funny story I wanted to share. To quote a character in the movie: "It's the end of the world!"

The Herniated Belly-button

Quin's got a herniated belly-button. Not a lot of people know what we're talking about. So take a gander at these two pics and you'll see what we're talking about. Notice the large bulge in his stomach? That's it! It seems to get bigger when he cries - it's really odd. It doesn't bother him though. His doctor just told us to massage it down every so often and hopefully that will help it go away. If not, he'll need surgery after he's 1-year old so pray for it to go away.

Quin the Duck

Quin HATES getting baths. He screams and screams and screams. It's not until he's wrapped in a towel is he OK. I happened to pull out this duck-bath towel with the little hood on it. Our little duck looks rather content now.

Quin's 1st Trip to the Cabin

Michelle & I went to the cabin for our anniversary weekend and took Quin along for his first trip to the family cabin. I think he enjoyed it - it's always hard to tell with babies.
Note to Kim & Tom - see how some of us know how to cook and not burn the cabin down - haha!

Quin's Quirks

Our little-guy has some strange quirky habits that Michelle has caught on camera.

Example 1: This odd display of comfortable hand positions while sleeping. I believe this is Quin's strategy to avoid his arms falling asleep - haha!


Example 2: When eating Quin grabs his ear like so. No idea why he does it, but it's really funny.

HE DOES HAVE EYES!

It's hard to catch Quin with his eyes open these days. But I did manage to get a good eyes open shot. Maybe it's just Grandma's that he wakes up for. Grandma K can do it, we'll have to see if Grandma I can too. We also know that Grandpa's can make him poop as Grandpa I found out this weekend. Grandpa K, can you do that?

Cousin Ben & the Case of the Missing Groomsman!

My cousin Ben and his wife Sara stopped by to show us the video from their wedding since we couldn't be there and to meet the reason that we missed that very same wedding last weekend. Wedding was the 28th of June, Quin was born the 29th - not a bad weekend.

"All I do is sleep!"

That pretty much sums up what Quin does right now. Sleep/Eat/Poop/Pee - the four things that babies do. Here's Quin catching some Z's with Mommy.



If there's a more peaceful (and sweeter) face than this, it doesn't live at my house because Quin's face is exactly that.

Sleepy-time

I found Kaare & Quin taking a nap on the living room floor. It's been a long couple days of adjustment for all three of us having Quin home (2 nights of being wide awake). But the second night was better, hopes are high for the third.

Meet & Greet!

Quin's met a few new faces the last couple days (2 since going home from the hospital on Tuesday).

Pastor Mark stopped by before we got to go home.


Tim is taking a refresher course on handling babies before his #2 arrives.


Uncie-Minh stopped by to see Quin and take him for a ride on his motorcycle!