My First Easter!

Quin's first Easter started off with his very own plate of pancakes (well, one pancake) and then a chat with the Easter Bunny. Much like his picture with Santa Claus a few months back, Quin was not overly impressed.

Next it was onto the Easter Egg Hunt for the Crawlers group at church.

Quin is determined to crawl away with the most eggs.

Here's Quin with his pal, Sawyer, and the kid from the movie "A Christmas Story" in the background.

Here Quin and Tobias square off in the Octagon for Easter Egg supremacy!

Both Quin and Tobias believe they are the heir to the UFC title. Which ever one walks away from this head-butt will be victorious. It should be known, the the face-off ended when Tobias became upset by the grass. Therefore, Quin is the new UFC Extreme Light-weight Champion.

Quin dominated the hunt in the Octagon as he was the last crawler sitting.

We spent the afternoon with Michelle's family on Prior Lake. We got a great family shot right on the lake. It was a fun and gorgeous day.

Through the Looking Glass

After his bath, Quin enjoyed playing with his mirror image.

His parents enjoyed his mondo-huge booger.

Another Weekend in Fergus

We spent another March weekend in Fergus Falls as we headed up to see our new God-daughter, Anna Mathiesen, baptised; we feel very blessed to have been given such an honor! It such a great experience to watch a child baptised! A few funny things happened this weekend that we don't have pictures for, but I had to let everybody know about.

1 - My cousin Amy went with us to Fleet Farm on Saturday. She told me about my dopey brother standing in front of the exit door waiting for it to open (silly, Kyle!)., but that's not the story. Upon leaving the store, Amy says, "Kaare I saw some boxers in their for you that said 'I'm Frickin' Lucky.'" Michelle starts to laugh and says, "no, they said 'I'm FEELING Lucky.'" It was very funny.

2 - My cousin Katie and Michelle made a fantastic dinner on Saturday night; but it was almost not meant to be. You see, Katie did something I've never seen before . . . she successfully burned butter and nearly smoked the house out. Very funny! But the end result was a heavenly cheeseburger soup . . . mmmmmmmm!

3 - At the baptism on Sunday morning, we were sitting in the second row right by the middle isle. Baptism was held at the traditional service which meant the choir was there. And standing right next to us was the choir director waving his arms as choir directors do. Well, Quin just stared at him for about a minute, then stood up on Michelle's lap, looked forward and raised his arms up just like the director. It was very cute and very funny!

4 - Finally, after the choir and Anna's baptism, Quin had enough of church. So he and I went out into the hallways to wander around and hopefully fall asleep (him, not me). Bethel has a huge wall devoted to the LB World Missions. There on the wall is the picture of my sister Kris' family, the Larsens. I pointed to Kris on the picture and said to Quin, "who's that." He got a big grin on his face and tried to pull the picture off the wall. Rather than let him destroy Bethel's missionary wall, I grabbed him a new picture and Quin proceeded to play with the picture. Or as Michelle put it, "he's playing with his cousins at church."

Anyway, that was some of the highlights of our weekend. I wish I had a camera for all of them, but they were great! Thanks to the Hosch clan for letting us crash with them again (two weekends in the same month!). It's been awesome spending time with you guys. And to Tim, Jenny, Ellie & Anna; thank you for asking us to be Anna's godparents. We will pray for her always and love her sometimes - just kidding, all the time!!! You are great friends (more like family) to us - we love you all.

The New & Improved Bellybutton

Here it is! Almost fully healed! Pretty flat - well, at least a vast improvement.

Fort Car Seat

On our second car drive to Fergus in 2 weeks, Quin decided he wanted to build a fort with his car seat and blanket.

The Belly: Before & After + Recovery stuff

These first two shots are from the night before surgery. First, you get to see just how far that hernia would stick out. Kaare's term has always been that it's like an aardvark snout.

And when Quin's pushing or straining, it would get this big around.
Quin's belly is hidden behind this bandage, but you can plainly see there is a significant buldge missing. The doc's stuff the entire thing back in his belly and stitched it up. Pretty cool!
In recovery, Quin was pretty tired out and took a while to recover from the anesthesia. So the majority of the next few pics are of our sleeping little-boy.Mommy makes a good bed.
Dad sleeps for a few minutes too.

The hospital staff said not to give Quin any formula or solid food until he could keep some pedialite down. Well, two attempts at the hospital resulted in major barfage that soaked blankets and Mommy's shirt. But, he was able to keep some down so we finally got to go home. In the picture below you can see Quin drinking his juice with no hands and Michelle being very prepared for more barfing by having a blanket on her lap.

Look what I found in the laundry!