Our First Week as 4!

We’ve had a great first week as a new family of 4. Thanks to the Deckers, Weights, and Evans-Stringhams for great meals. We had my dad, mom, and grandmom come to visit and we have Tim’s mom headed in tomorrow.

Pre-Quinley fun at a new (to us) pool in Virginia

A baby doll sling – a present from baby sister

Showing Quinley the fun of coloring

Celebrating James’s 2nd birthday at the Arboretum

Playing at The Yards Park

 

Seeing how dad measures up

Our growing girl – she was over 8lb at her appointment on Monday.

Her First Day!!!

Miss Quinley Grace made a quick appearance, arriving only 20 minutes after we got to the hospital and pretty much surprising everyone. We didn’t even make it past the intake room to a real labor and delivery suite, so things were a bit improvised. Everyone’s doing well and getting some rest.

She was 7lb, 15oz and 20.5in with a head of dark hair and blue eyes.

They left us alone for so long, we had to use the self timer to get a picture! Luckily, Tim’s an expert with that.

Reagan came it to meet her new sister and visit with Mom – but she got bored pretty quickly, so she went back to spend the day with the nanny.

We think she looks like an Armstrong.

Happy 4th

There was a neighborhood parade on Capital Hill down on Barracks Row.  It felt like a typical small-town parade with all the same scenes of Americana you would find in any small mid-western town:

A happy family:

 

Family clubs with banners (How is it we haven’t joined this organization yet?)

 

Old people in old cars 

George Washington and others in period costume:

  

Candy, flags and patriotic beads handed out to kids.

And a clown, a pimp, and a woman dressed up as cat/superwoman, all on roller skates. 

 

For a while there I thought I was back in Ohio.

Go Nats!

with the Geico gecko (though she kept calling him a frog)

Big Girl Bed

A few weeks ago, with the construction nearing completion, we were able to move Reagan back into her room. We got a new full size bed, expecting to move Reagan into that so the baby can have the crib later this year. Initially, getting her to sleep in the crib was pretty difficult, was taking a really long time every night, and was super frustrating for all of us.

So, one night, as we were reading books, I asked her where she wanted to sleep and she told me – the big bed. I told her there was one rule – don’t get out of bed. That night, she got up once, but was straight back to bed. The past week, we’ve just about been able to turn the light off and leave the room. She’s super cozy in there and loves it.

Thanks??!

Amongst other things, Reagan got some markers and a Hello Kitty coloring book for her birthday from Aunt Sue. We had not yet gotten her markers – sticking with crayons and colored pencils so far. She does well with those, but the markers, not so much. Even sitting in her chair, she colored on more than we wanted, so the markers have been put away for now. Maybe in a few months…

Oxon Hill Farm

We’ve been trying to do some fun, local things on recent weekends. We picked a cooler few hours last Sunday to check out Oxon Hill Farm for some local history and agricultural education. For Reagan, of course, the animals were the most exciting. We saw some cows and Tim got to milk one. Then we walked up to the farm to see the rabbits, chickens, hogs, farm cat, and horse.

On weekend mornings, they let the kids in to the chicken coop to feed the chickens and gather the eggs.


Then, we took the eggs over to the hogs to give them a treat – we learned that once a pig weighs more than 150 lb, it is a hog. These guys are about 300 lb each!