the most wonderful day of the year (for quentin)

today was "touch a truck" in a nearby town. Q had a blast last year, so we knew he was going to go bananas this year now that trucks are an obsession of his. and we were right. despite still getting over a nasty cold, not sleeping well last night, and being due for a nap, he was a ball of energy and literally had to be dragged out, kicking and screaming, at 2 p.m. when it was over. i apologize for the ridiculous number of pictures. i took an even more ridiculous number - almost 400. -

the matching outfits were purely coincidental

- time to get to work -

gotta hydrate

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i love trucks

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wonder how this works

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he found the manual for the front loader and said, "i want this."

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tractor!

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literally kicking and screaming when forced to leave

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caroline was a good sport

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family juice break

pickle's pretty sundress sunday!

caroline recently graduated to size 12 month clothes. while i was unpacking the stuff from storage, i discovered that i had gone a tad dress-crazy (i mean, how can you not???) and now we have around 40 dresses in this size (oops!) so i am going to have her wear a new dress each sunday. and maybe like tuesdays and thursdays too, so that she can wear them all. this will result in a new recurring feature on rooblog - pickle's pretty sundress sundays! so here is the first installment - frilly pink flower and butterfly dress. enjoy. -

it's so easel

grandma gave this easel to Q for christmas, but seeing as how the holidays coincided with the de-toyification necessary for putting our house on the market, we never set it up for him. he's been asking to color a lot lately and Q loved the easel at lilly's house so jeremy fished it out of the POD. quentin does enjoy drawing on it. he also enjoys drawing on himself and the couch. and he enjoys eating the chalk. my son is ralph wiggum. yay.

at least one of 'em likes me

quentin now has the cough/cold/virus thing we've all had. he has not slept through the night in ages. i still have it too so i have been partaking in nyquil every night (seriously, i am on my 3rd bottle since acquiring this plague.) because of my drug-induced coma, jeremy has been the one consoling Q when he wakes up - i don't even hear him! but jeremy is at work tonight, so when Q started wailing i headed up to his room. he took one look at me and said, "i want daddy." he then cried when i told him daddy was at work. eventually he fell back asleep, but i don't think he was happy about it. - and the big news of the day - caroline says, "mama" - yay!!

philly phun

two weekends ago, we took a somewhat impromptu trip to philly. jeremy was on vacation and needed to do some paperwork and stuff at the hospital in philly so they will still employ him in july. plus we hadn't been down to philly since caroline's bestest friend ginny was born, so we had to meet her. both kids were pretty well-behaved in the car on the way down (rented chrysler 300 - not as nice as you might think) and we made good time. at one point caroline was getting a little cranky, probably because she was hungry. as if her wailing wasn't painful enough, quentin started wailing too - but not because anything was wrong - he was mocking his sister, and he thought it was mighty funny. - the kids and i hung out at the norcross house friday morning while jeremy got fingerprinted and stuff. this is what happens when you put a little boy into a house full of girls: - - on saturday, jeremy and jeff brought Q and lilly to a (free) fun fest put on by one of their state senators. they got to go on a big slide and see all kinds of trucks and a helicopter. when they got home, Q couldn't stop talking about the big slide and the bouncy house, which they did not even go in. here Q poses with some wrestling belts while some dudes do a radio show presumably about wrestling? - - later that evening, lilly introduced quentin to some disney movies he's never seen, bolt and the the princess & the frog. since returning from the trip, "bolbt" is now amongst quentin's favorites and we have watched it 6 or 7 times. sorry lilly, he has not requested any princess movies. -

- quincy wants popcorn too! - - and you can tell jeff took this picture because it is a good photo, as opposed to the crap my camera takes (new camera on the way from target.com - thank god.) -

- in the morning, they picked up right where they left off, watching cartoons -

- and then we tried to get some nice pics of the babies and all 4 kids together. needless to say, my camera did not perform well at this already challenging task: -

- but thankfully, jeff's did :) -

10 months old!

caroline is 10 months old today! this pic accurately illustrates how most of us, especially pickle herself, are feeling. poor thing has pink eye and a cold and is cutting two new teeth. we are woefully behind in posting but will hopefully catch up tomorrow!

pizza bagel family love

we had bagel bites for dinner tonight (i know... wicked classy.) quentin had three on his plate. he held one up and said, "daddy." he held another up and said, "momma." he then put the third one in the middle and declared it, "quentin." then he took the quentin bagel and touched it to the daddy bagel and said, "hug." and then slid it over to the mommy bagel so she could have a hug too. awww. - this is actually his new thing. he assigns familial roles to all kinds of things, mostly monster trucks, and then has them interact. oh the imagination of a 2.5 year old.

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quentin made it in the paper again! he's big time now.