Alice Anne's beginning

The kids.

 I gave the kids bottles, so they could feed dolls and stuffed animals. Dean added a straw.

One week old. 

 The traditional Dad and naked baby pictures.

February pictures

Cuties. I need to learn how to get pictures from my iphone onto the blog. I have some fun ones there.

Catch up

There are a couple new videos on youtube, use the link in the previous post to see them. I finally loaded pictures from the camera onto the computer. (It's been 3 months.) Um... has anyone else noticed that time is passing about ten times faster than it did 4 years ago? I think it speeds up exponentially with each kid. It's a good theory. Anyway, in the last 3 months we had visits from Kendall grandparents and Grandma Quincy, Dean turned 3, we also had Halloween and Thanksgiving. I can't say that we documented the events very well, but here is our pitiful bunch of pictures.

 Dean was a race car driver for Halloween. Someone gave me the costume last year. It worked well since he is all about "Cars" and Lightning McQueen.

 Jane was a slob for Halloween. Don't know if you can call it dressing up...

 Okay, actually she wore a flower fairy costume which was very cute, but she didn't want to wear it all day. That is the only picture I have of her Oct. 31. We went trick or treating at IKEA with the Quincy kids. Dean and Syd were thrilled to play together and Jane had fun, too.

I imagine this photo is of Dean telling Jane what to do. He does it exactly in my style, voice inflections and everything.

He loves suckers.

Dean was thrilled with candles this year. I really wished he could play with the flame. He tried to touch but decided it was too hot.

 He blew out the candles about 10 times. I think the cake was covered in his, you know, love. Dean didn't even eat it. I didn't make it gluten free. He could care less. He didn't even eat his rice krispie, just the ice cream. That boy is not into food. Paul and Emily got to be part of this little party. Seems like we don't see them nearly as much as I'd like. Goes back to the ridiculous speed of time.

I got him this tool set. A boy can never really have too many tools. At least James can't seem to get enough of them.

Dean got a second birthday party. Grandma Quincy threw this one for Dean and Sydney. She even made a gluten free cake. Here is Dean sneaking a candy off the cake:

He blew these candles out a few times, too.

Sydney was less enthusiastic.

I know girls are supposed to do this with their mom's high heels. I almost never wear high heels, so Jane had to settle for Dad's flip-flops.

 Grandma Quincy gave Dean this Awesome gear set for his birthday. I thought it was something he'd grow into and need a lot of coaching to do. I was extremely wrong. He builds things like this almost every day with no help outside of separating some tight connections. I'm pretty proud. What a little brain!

They were doing some work on the high tension power lines in front of our house. Dean was thrilled. He would stand out there and watch then run in to tell me what was going on. When the truck with the big spool of cable pulled in and they connected it to the pole, he was so excited his words were running together-- dancing around. Then he ran back out to watch.

For the record, we had Thanksgiving with Jason and Nicole. It was a success. To everyone's surprised I managed to make a pretty decent pumpkin pie. it wasn't cute, but it was tasty. (James ate the whole thing almost single-handedly). Similar story on my rolls. They were ugly and tasty. Ah, well, maybe I'll try again someday and with practice master this cooking business.

YouTube link

I loaded about a million videos yesterday. However, I'm feeling much to lazy to embed them all, so here's a link to my channel where you can view everything I've ever loaded.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jennyquincy?feature=results_main

home stuff

James is a good Dad and the kids love him. He comes home from work and wants to relax in his "king-of-the-house" chair, but they just climb right up on top -- undeterred by his closed eyes and reclined position.

Jane loves necklaces and she looks really cute in these clothes from Elliot, so I took some pictures.

 It is so fun when they play together.

Dean hooked that bowl onto that gold chain. It looks like some rapper jewelry.

These kids are my life. I'm so glad I have them. Perhaps all you UT people ought to move out here, because we miss you. We'd move home, but UT companies pay low wages and UT houses are very expensive. Plus you have horrid winters.

many videos

Jane is starting to say some words. She often experiments with new sounds, too.


Dean is so good at playing by himself. He has all of these little pretend games that he plays. Sometimes he stops when he notices me watching. Soon we'll have to start playing dress up/ role playing games.


These kids were working Audrey hard.


More Jane noises.


Dean's answer to every question is no-- an emphatic "NO" often punctuated with wild arm swinging.


Jane checking out hands and playing with Dad.


When Dean saw me videotaping Jane, he wanted to put on a show for me. Sorry if it makes you sea sick.


Dean did this all on his own. "ABC is for hungry"

Dean's backpack

I'm not sure about this new Blogger posting form. It has some nice features, but it has some annoying little problems. for example it tipped this picture over. It is portrait on my computer, but Blogger messed it up in the uploading.

 What do you think? is Dean ready for school? Maybe he needs pants first. Perhaps next year he'll be in the habit of wearing pants and he can go to preschool.

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this video needs a little explanation. Dean plays with himself really well. I know he has this fantastic imagination because of the noises he makes and the things he says. He gets embarrassed and stops if he sees me watching. I snuck this video. you can't see or hear very well and he doesn't do anything particularly cute, but here it is. Dean plays solo.