Quinn the party animal

We went to our first party with Quinn tonight. Our friend Ryan just bought a house and he had a house warming / St Patrick's Day party. Quinn was a star. He slept on the way over, and slept there for a while but then woke up and wanted to eat. Bec fed him and then he was wide awake and looking around all wide-eyed. Various people held him and talked to him and he took it all in with a glint in his eye. I was so proud to call him our son. I'm suspecting he might have inherited his dad's propensity for being the last to leave a party and he was wide-eyed, smiling and cooing right til the end. He even stayed awake in the car on the way home, which is unusual. When we got home we gave him a bath and he ate again and he's just now beginning to go to sleep as I type.

We went out to Gramma and Grandpa's this afternoon. Quinn was a star out there too, smiling and cooing for Gramma and Grandpa, to their utter delight. They took care of him for an hour or so while Bec & I went snowshoeing in their back 40. It was the first time I've ever snowshoed and it was quite fun. Plus it's the first time Bec & I got to do something together, just the two of us, since Quinn was born. Gramma made an awesome lunch. It was a great visit.

Bec had a massage on Friday morning. That was the first time she'd been out of the house without him in his entire 7 weeks. He slept on me on the couch just fine until unfortunately Bec called to say she was coming home. The ringer was set too loud and it woke him up. He may have heard his mom's voice on the answering machine and immediately wanted to be nowhere except on her. Fortunately the wailing only lasted 15 minutes or so until she got home. She held him and he quieted. She handed him to me for 30 seconds while she changed her clothes and he wailed. She took him back and fed him and all was well.

Cutting dairy out of Bec's diet seems to have improved Quinn's demeanor and health. It's possibly a coincidence but it looks awfully much like a correlation. We'll have to concentrate on making sure Bec gets proper nutrition on what it pretty much now a vegan diet but I'm confident we can do that. Quinn seems much better off for it so its worth the effort.