Both my kids are killing me with cuteness lately.  They both are such wonderful souls.  Here are a few “Quinnisms” for you…

**  She LOVES shoes.  Not to be gender stereotypical, but she does!  If she finds Tyler’s shoes or sandals around the house, she will try and sometimes successfully get them on her feet!  One day, I was getting Tyler’s shoes on preparing for an adventure.  She found her shoes and brought them to me!  She wanted her adventure shoes on too!   She loves socks too…

In fact, she tries to put clothes on too!  She is already trying to dress herself.  She lives anything that can be a “scarf”.  She will throw the tape measure around her neck like a scarf..

** I have a doll crib that my Dad built me in Tyler’s room.  Quinn loves to pull the dolls and mattress out and then climb in herself.  She loves emptying things and filling them back up.  She will pull all the laundry out of Tyler’s dirty clothes hamper or any laundry basket she encounters.  She will try to climb in the laundry baskets too.

** If I am sitting on the floor with my knees up, she will crawl right under my knees like a tunnel.  She will crawl one way and then turn around and crawl the other way - it cracks me up!

** She really soaks up everything we do.  If she finds a washcloth on the counter, she will wipe it up.  If she finds a brush, she will brush her hair.  This evening she climbed up to a drawer, opened it and pulled out the heavy lemon juicer.  I set her of the floor to play with it.  She then crawls back up the stool, opens the drawer and throws it back in.  There is a pot in front of her, so she changes her mind, pulls it back out of the drawer and throws it in the pot.

** Such a money girl.  She pushes the stool over to think sink facing the wrong direciton.  No matter..she climbs up and reaches for the sink.  She is now standing at an angle at the sink with one foot on the top step and the other foot wrapped around her ankle.  She is so sure-footed it is unbelievable to me.  She has a strong sense of her body and how to balance, counter-balance, etc.

** HUGS!  Probably since she was 13 months old, Quinn will give ME the great, wonderful, amazing bear hugs.  Hugs where she wraps her arms around my neck and squeezes so tight.  These are the most amazing hugs ever and make my day.

** She is a talkasaurus these days!  If Chase runs out of the door when we leave for a walk you will now hear not only Tyler and I yelling “Chase!”, you will hear Quinn as well.

She says “water” when she wants a drink and “Tyler” very clearly.  She also loves to say “hi” to people.  The other day I did kind of a whispery “hi” and she imitated me right back. 

She is now loving “bye bye”.  When we drain the water from the bathtub after bath, she will say “bye bye!”

Another day I was saying it was bathtim and I swear I heard her say “bath time!”  We love her voice - it is the sweetest little sounf coming from our sweet little girl!!