The Aberdeen Quinn Family Blog: April 2008

These are pictures from our day to day life, so they are a bit random, but the captions should let you know the jist of what is going on...

Mama and her little man, he had just woke up from a nap

Our very own Batman!!!

Pushing the Hungry Hippo

Pushing the 'Hungry Hippo'

Sitting like a big boy in the Banana Chair

Enchanted by the movie "Enchanted"

A little bit of beans on the face while eating fajitas! Did I get something on my face?

Loudly driving the vacuum!!!

Riding the Vacuum!!

Oh, Look what I found!!!

Look what I can do!!

Lochlan and Tyler at Life group on Thursday...

Vroom, Vroom

Oh so cute....

Daddy reading to Lochlan before bed...

March was a busy month for us!! We had Army Reserve drill for John. All of us go to Fargo for this event!! I really look forward to going! We get to visit with Crystal, Hunter, Nate, and now Natalie too!! We usually will get a visit from Pops while we are there as well. They just happened to match this time....

Good buddies!!

Hunter and Lochlan having fun!!

Pops and Lochlan match!!

Very cute!!!!!

One of the major events of March was planning and having our St. Patrick's Day Party in our apartment. We had a really great time!! Had lots of green food and yellow curry (for the Irish flag) It was really fun!! I am looking forward to hosting more parties in the future!! To make it festive and more than one of our impromptu gatherings we got green headbands for the girls and felt hats for the boys. It was really funny, because some of the guys loved wearing their hats and some barely tolerated them!! It seemed like none of the girls minded wearing the headbands for the festivities. We were such a large group that we split up for two games, Risk and Taboo. It was a good time....

Katie and I

Chad Larson really feeling the Hat

Melissa and Aaron Doran

Musketeer girls...

Patty suffering through a picture

Pops

Tyler, Jake, Rachel, and Scott

Playing peek-a-boo with Tyler

The Aberdeen Quinns

A high stakes game of Risk

Jenna eating a mint Oreo

Josh and Rachel Flaningan

Katie looking cute...

Lochlan taking a turn with one of the hats...

John and D. Doug hamming it up...

One thing I really enjoy having are impromptu gatherings with my friends on week nights when nothing is really going on. This night we got together to play a card game, but got distracted with Lochlan and some balloons. Thus this night has become the night of the "Balloon Party". Lochlan is usually outnumbered by females when hanging out with Mom and friends when Daddy is working. This night there was alot more testosterone than he is used to and he LOVED it!!! He got to wrestle, a piggyback ride, adn he went to get coffee with just the boys!! We did manage to play cards after Lochlan went to bed. And of course, anyone who was unable to attend the St. Patty's Day Party had to get a picture with the hat...

The boys and their coffee!!

Jesse and the Hat from the St. Patty's Day Party(He was unable to attend)

Nathan and the Hat from the St. Patty's Day Party (He was also unable to attend)

Lochlan and his new friend, John

Nathan trying to work up some static...

John, Lochlan, and the balloons

Jesse and some static on his chin...

John and the infamous Hat, even though we didn't even know him at the time of the St. Patty's Day Party...

Jesse giving Lochlan a ride!!

Lochlan met John 15 mins. prior and decided he was going to sit on his lap..

Katie showing Lochlan the balloon toss...

Jesse and Lochlan having some play time!!

Lochlan with Daddy after a hard night of balloon partying!!

Lochlan was dedication at our church on March 16, 2008. Pops and Patty were able to come to Aberdeen to witness his dedication. Lochlan was really good while we were up at the front of the congregation. He didn't give very many loud proclamations... After church we were invited to eat at the Inches (Rachel Flaningan's family). Lochlan fell in love with an animated horse.

Lochlan's dedication

John, as head of his house, praying for his son...

Pastor Gary praying for Lochlan (Lochlan trying for the microphone)

Riding a horse at the Inches house after church on Sunday...

I love this horse!!

Lochlan received his first haircut this month. It was a bitter sweet event for me. It is not as obvious in the pictures, but taking a an inch or two of hair made him look so much more like a little boy and less like my baby... It was quite the adventure trying to cut his hair with the clippers while Lochlan is trying to see what is buzzing by his ear!!

Right before his hair cut with chocolate ice cream on his face....

Lochlan hair from his first hair cut...

Newly shorn!

Brushing his teeth with the wrong end of the tooth brush after his hair cut...

His bottom two teeth came in February and I really don't have a good picture of them. You can see them slightly in the tooth brush picture.

The Shriner's annual Circus came to Aberdeen in March. I don't remember ever having been to one and it was Lochlan's first time going to a circus as well!! We had a blast!! Lochlan really liked when they turned the lights off in the stadium and all the cups and necklaces that had LED light in them were going off. His favorites seemed to be the elephants and the ponies!! He kept pointing at the elephants and trying to say stuff to us!! He was really upset about having to get off the pony after his ride was over. He kept signing "More,More", but we couldn't go again...