10 Things We Love About You

Although I prefer not to pause my pregnancy right now at 38 weeks, I do wish I could press "pause" on Quinn!  Each day I tell myself that I never want to forget this or that, so what better way than to write about it!

10.  She is stubborn.  She doesn't want us to help her hold the racquet correctly, hold her hand when she jumps off something, or hold the bat the right way.  "NO! ME!" is a typical response.

9.  "MAMA MAMA MAMA MAMA MAMA MAMA" "DADDY DADDY DADDY DADDY DADDY" all. day. long.  98% of the time I love it because I've always dreamt of being a mom and hearing those exact words, but there's that 2% when I just want to scream and say "WHAT DO YOU WANT CHILD!!!!!".

8.  Full of "saw-yee" for sorry.  She will try to scare us with her lion imitation and before we can even react she will say "Oh, saw-yee, saw-yee" as if she didn't even want us to be scared.  It's probably my favorite thing right now.

7.  Nighttime.  Each night after laying her in bed she'll grab her "nigh-y" (blanket) and say "das you mama/daddy" as if she was thanking us for all of our hard work we did with her that day.  I'll take what I can get!

6.  She's a lazy eater.  I admit, if there isn't a show on the TV, there is food on the floor.  If there is a show on the TV, she wants us to feed her most of her meal.  I try to ignore her as much as I can and simply keep reminding her to eat, but she finds me wherever I am in the room and reaches out with her fork or spoon so I come over and help her.  Lazy, lazy, lazy.

5.  LOVES TO RUN.  Need I say more?  Mom and Dad are pretty happy about this :)  The last couple weekends we've actually gone for a jog outside and put her new running shoes on.  She thinks she's pretty cool, but so do we ;)

4.  Hats, barretts, pony tails.  Who would have ever thought she'd like these things!

3.  Tic-Tac's.  About 3 weeks ago my back was killing me.  It was to the point I couldn't go outside with Quinn without another adult because I couldn't keep up with her.  So when I had to go to the store or wherever, I started giving her a tic-tac.  She did exactly what I would tell her and it was a life-saver!

2.  "Paxy".  Her best bud, Paxton always seems to be on Quinn's mind.  She has started to call all of her friends, "Paxy".  It happens after breakfast and immediately after her nap.  Love that she loves her friends - and we will sure miss all of them!

1.  She's scared of planes all of a sudden.  We hear the slightest sound of a plane and she runs to us so scared.  I think she's just in the phase of acting scared and likes to see our reaction.  Granted, some of the planes around here are startling to me and I plug my own ears.. so when those go by I for sure grab her and put my hands over her ears!  But most of the time she's just being a little bit of a wimp looking for some attention ;)