Quinn report

We were at Lee and Kris's for the fourth of july. After a short visit to the St. Peter parade where the rain forced us to leave early, we were off to the Edberg's for fun with the family. Quinn was thrilled as always to play with his cousins and he and Ethan sword fought with every bat or noodle or lightsaber around. We all went swimming and I was the resident lifeguard for the threesome. My sweet three year old was all blue lips and shivering, though he fought hard to stay in the water. Finally, he gave up and dug in the sand with Luke and later went on a pontoon ride where he quickly fell asleep leaning against Luke. One of my favorite moments from the day was when he picked up the hula hoop and instead of throwing it around his hips, he held it in his hands and turned around. An adorable interpretation of the act of hoola hooping (seems I can't agree on how to spell that activity) to be sure. I was chuckling madly. He and Ethan rolled and rolled around in the grass and once more, Ellie and Ethan drove Quinn around in their battery operated cars. Nana tried to teach Quinn to drive, but he was so intrigued by the pedal that he would forget to steer or look up:) Sweet boy. Per usual it was a fickle day of eating, but he did fairly well eating some apple, corn, his favorite chips (salt and pepper) and drinking water. He even had some bites of ham. All in all, pretty ok, though his critics (or rather, my critics) might disagree. Bobbi announced her pregnancy to the crowd and they are due February 20th I believe. She was eating pickles, which waa cute, and indulged in a nap-- a favorite part of being pregnant. Quinn miraculously stayed awake the whole ride home and crashed about 9. Maybe he'll see fireworks when he's 4:) His new thing is to carry around his medicine with him, which means carrying around the Melagel disk and having me put some on his recovered knee injuries. This morning we were snuggling and I was saying that I had to get up to go to work and he told me to "lay down Mommy. Just cuddle". He likes to turn on his side away from me and hold onto my arm and place one of my hands between his own. Incredibly sweet stuff. Lately, we're playing this cool body activity game with him that he got for his birthday from Toni. It has Eric Carle pictures on it and asks him to do particular actions. We bend our neck and knees, turn our hand, stomp our feet, etc. The best is when we have to raise our shoulders and Quinn's arms raise up too, making is a whole upper body action. He really likes wiggling his hips, though his movement is reminiscent of his mother's hip action:) Sweet boy. We're all about Madagascar lately and he calls is "gascar".