solid poop (a 300th post spectacular)

after an extended moment of silence in honor of abby, i'm back with a big ol' update. it also happens to be our 300th post. woo hoo! yesterday, for the first time in 13 days, quentin had a solid poop! it's sad when you get excited about something like poop, but after nearly 2 weeks of diarrhea, real poop is a happy thing. we don't think that he was sick, we think it had to do with teething because... poor little guy is currently cutting 5 new teeth, bringing him to a grand total of 8 teeth. so glad i'm not nursing :) and now that his digestive system is back to normal, we're pushing solids again. he has devoured his rice cereal the past couple of days. i have also purchased a food processor and a couple of make-your-own baby food books. seems like it will be fun. i might have to add quentin's meals to our 2-week meal plan... which by the way we are still rockin' - it makes life so darn easy. we love it. i have also started a list of other potential things to add to the rotation, potentially expanding to a 3 or 4-week plan. playing a big role in the 3-4-week expansion will be the chest freezer we plan to buy with part of our tax refund... speaking of... taxes freaking suck. i have gotten them basically done, but i need to double/triple check them. probably should have paid a professional this time around but i'm cheap. with the move (2 houses worth of mortgage interest, 2 states to file + the moving expenses deduction) our filing got way complicated. stupid richmond / virginia... no major updates on the real estate front this week. we had 2 more showings last week and nothing else exciting. still can't believe the peeps who made an offer last week did not expect us to come back with a kick-out clause. crazy. i hope their condo sits on the market for a year see they can so how it feels! we have decided that in the spring we will build the "abby bagel memorial veggie garden". we thought about planting a tree or a shrub in her honor, but there was almost nothing in the world she loved more than veggies from the garden. she plucked every last tomato from the plants we had in the yard in richmond and also helped herself to a box of freshly picked maters from my parents' garden last summer. we'll get a plaque or something to go with it. vacation coming up soon. very excited. quentin will go on his first long car ride - all the way down to richmond. and it will be only the second time he's left the state of massachusetts (though the first time was hardly exciting - he and i went for a ride to connecticut to find the nearest wachovia in order to get a cashiers check for buying the house - tons of fun!) did you know... on my daily home-daycare-work commute i pass 7 dunkin donuts but not a single mcdonald's? i'm not talking about ones off of highway exits, just ones immediately on the road i'm on. not that i have the cash to allow frequent visits to either dd or mcd's, i just find it interesting (and counting the dd's gave me something to do on the brutally long trek!) happy leap day! oh as a result of the extra day, quentin's 1st birthday will be on a saturday this year. while i haven't settled on a theme just yet, we will be doing some sort of big ol' party. any and all are welcome!