Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue

Something Old:
This may not sound very nice, but rest assured my dad approved of the first part of this topic...he's the "something old." Dad came to visit and worked on projects from the moment he arrived. Though he was busy, we found time for fun too. We saw George Thorogood at the Taste of Minnesota, went to Elko to watch the car races, went to the Velodrom to watch bicycle races, and went to the Como Zoo and Saturday Live with Quinn. He also went to the back to the 50's car show with Nan and Peter. We are so appreciative of all the things he did for us to make our home more comfortable and appealing.

Something New:
In ECFE, we've learned that as infants develop they tend to focus on one area of development at a time. Having gone through emotional, social and physical phases, it would appear that Quinn's working on language now. She has learned to use some new words and signs. She says "ball", likes to say "Hi" to everyone and is working on saying "all done." She formed her first simple sentences too by saying "Hi dog" and "Hi Dad." In addition to the signs she already knows, she also started signing "bed", "more", "dada", "mama", "monkey" and "pacificer" all within the last week. She also signed "all done," "bath," and "bed" in succession as you can see in this short video.

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Something borrowed:
Thanks to Peter and our neighbor John, we were able to borrow some of the tools we needed for dad's projects.

Something blue:
Quinn is also learning colors. Dad asked her to bring him a blue ring from her rainbow stacking toy and she was able to pick out the blue one from all the other colors.

To finalize the theme for this blog, we celebrated our 4th anniversary a few weeks ago. We enjoyed our annual overnight stay at the Covington Inn. Thanks to mom for watching Quinn all night for us.