Mommy and the Poo Cannon

This was one of our first "Welcome to Parenthood" moments.  It was the first week and as I was holding up Quinn's legs so Mommy could get the diaper under her (as a Daddy, the first few changes require assistance), and...She Shot Mommy with her Poo Cannon.  

It was projectile poop.  Probably shot a distance of about 15-18 inches.  Literally sprayed her arm.  It was awesome.  I couldn't stop laughing, and as soon as Mommy got over the shock she couldn't stop laughing either.  Awesome.

That was a couple of weeks ago, and then Yesterday happened.  

We were having a family dinner and Mommy went to clean the diaper.  About 3 minutes later I heard someone calling my name.  So I went to investigate and this is what I found.  

Awesome.  Just Awesome.  I think the Poo Cannon misfired and left a trail.  

If you look carefully at the end of the river of poo you can see she even got a little on Hello Kitty's face.  And yes, I said River of Poo.  Come on, look at this picture.  What else would you call it other than a River of Poo.  

But don't you just love that look on her face?  It's like she's a little embarrassed.  

A bit spoiled already

For most of the day, Little Miss is carried by Daddy, Mommy, Nana, or Lai Ying. Even when Little Miss is sleeping, once she realizes (usually only about 5 - 10 mins) she has been put down in one of these:

Or in the crib,
Or in the cradle 'n swing,
she starts fussing and crying. As soon as you pick her up, she falls back asleep. It's like magic. I think she knows exactly when it's daytime and nighttime because at night she's quite content in her bassinet.

She definitely takes after her mother

If you don't already know, you'll now have an idea of how the Happy and Tired mommy sleeps. It looks something like this:

Swaddles

Swaddles are great, but our little Houdini will just not stay swaddled.  Even with the super duper summer infant super swaddle wrap, she just squirms her way out.  (however there may be some user error involved.)

30 Days Old...

She's already 30 days old!

And she has such long, pretty eyelashes :)

I think she gets it from her dad.

Like Mother Like Daughter Like Cousin like Aunt

They both love to hold babies

And it looks like our little Quinn is either a time traveler or has a look a like 

that was born 30 years before she was.  

Our Little Vampire

If only she would sleep this well at night.  

I love her to death, but she sure makes me tired.  

Bath time

Bath time is easy when everyone wants to help 

Drunk and Sleeping

I love when she's Milk Drunk. She's so content.

Baby Loves Her New Dress

Good Times.

Curdy

That's my Teddy Bear Curdy, who I've had for as long as I can remember.  I think it's time he had someone new to take care of.  I think he's very well suited to the job too.  

It's nice having cousins

Welcome to Parenthood.

This was our first mass email the day after Quinn was born.  It kinda gives you a more realistic idea of what the first days after the birth of a child are like.  

So it's 730 in the morning and we're beat.  Richard left around 5pm yesterday and we finally had the baby to ourselves.  The quiet time was nice but all it really did was make us realize how tired we were.  I honestly don't even know what we did until bedtime.  Feeding's and naps I assume.  Marika's having a tough time with physical after effects of labor and delivery.  It's tough, the body goes through so much and she's just beat up.  But's she's no matter how hard up she's feeling as soon as little baby girl is with her she just powers through it.  Pretty tough for a lady who gets light headed just by mentioning the IV she had yesterday.  But I think that's just what mothers do.  

I think everyone saw how sleepy Quinn was yesterday and yes, that meant she didn't have much sleep left in her by nightfall.  The last couple feedings before we tried to go to bed were very light and Quinn didn't eat much.  So yes, that meant she was very hungry when wife and I were very tired.  The logbook says we fed her at 11:15, 2:30, and 5:30 which doesn't seem so bad now.  But from about 930 last night to 4 this morning neither of us slept for more than about 30 minutes at a time and by 3 we were both about as tired as we've ever been, really not exaggerating that either.  By 4:15 she finally decided she was tired and we did finally get her in the crib.  Such a moment of relief when we put her into the crib and she slept.  I think I heard trumpets and people cheering.  The hour of sleep went by way too fast.  But it helped enough.  

Mother and daughter are resting and I'm sending this which hopefully means I'll get a nap in soon.  We'll see.  If anyone wants to come by today they're more than welcome to, just give us a little warning so we can be try not to be a family of tired and grumpy people.  

Kidding, we're always tired and grumpy.  :)  

Oh and thanks to everyone for all the food and gifts.  The hospital food is **** (awesome).  So all the snacks are super, but that doesn't mean anyone needs to bring anything else, there's a lot of food in our room.  We could probably host a small party.  

Thanks

Greg (exhausted) Marika (exhausted) and little baby Quinn (might be a vampire as she much prefers sleeping in the daytime)

That's some happy parents

Happy Daddy

Happy Mommy

Quinn Haruko Sung

Welcome to the World 

Quinn Haruko Sung