Happy Birthday Quinn!

I can't believe our baby is 2! He is not so sure about the whole birthday thing as you can see from the video, but he does enjoy people...especially kissing people. He tries to kiss everybody, friends, family, the checker at the grocery store, the staff at the hotel...we will have to have the "stranger" talk soon. Surprisingly, with all that kissing, he has not been sick since last Easter... but now that I mentioned it in writing, he is sure to be sick any day now.

For his birthday, we went to visit friends in Homedale, Idaho. Melyssa baked him a cake (which he didn't eat), and Mike made really good ribs (which we all got a taste of after Cora got to them!), and Quinn sucked ketchup off of a hotdog (which he didn't eat) so we all had a great time. I wish we could have stayed a bit longer and visited friends we didn't have a chance to see. The whole drive home Quinn talked about his "RiRi, Ikey, Mawk, and sissy" (that would be Mariah, Isaac, Mark and Sadie to the rest of us). OK, I am not going to get too excited about this.

Quinn wanted to pee pee on the potty so I sat him up there. He seemed comfortable with it, and he may have let a couple of drops go. I remain unconvinced he is ready to tackle this epic adventure but I think he is beginning to understand what the potty is for. I will continue to introduce the idea and see.

Here is a question for you: Why don't moms tell you that the day your child turns 2, the "terrible 2s" begin. Well, it's on like Donkey Kong! Sometimes I think he has lost his mind! He threw his first on the floor, rolling around screaming tantrum...AT CHURCH! Why can't these things happen in the privacy of our own home, why there in front of God, the Holy Trinity and the whole church!?! It wasn't even our church, we were visiting in Middleton, ID! I bet they are all breathing a sigh of relief and are praising the Lord we live in Wyoming with our demon possessed spawn! As soon as we scooped him off the floor and got him strapped in his car seat, he was cooing, and saying "hi, mommy, hi daddy". What is up with that! Is this some sort of sick "first time mommy" rite of passage that your friends and family don't tell you these things? I know you are all laughing at me...you MOMS!