Quincy's Big Boy Updates:

Just recently we had to buy Quincy some more clothes. Although the weather has been beautiful, its that time of the year where we enjoy cool mornings and evenings with warm afternoons in between. Quincy is now wearing 3T clothes! Perhaps with the exception that his pants are more like 2T... he's got Tyler's little behind.

I have sort of been slacking on taking pictures... mostly because we've been so busy, but this day Quincy let me have at it. He was even WANTING me to take his picture, which of course is a rare occasion. After commanding me to take his picture he would stand in a spot and pose like this:

This is Quincy's face he makes when he thinks he's being funny.

And here he is being mischievous while taking brochures off the tables at the doctor's office.

Quincy's Latest:

**He is now sleeping in a "big boy bed" -- I thought it might be a difficult and slow transition for him to say his goodbyes to his crib, but it was nothing of the sort. After sleeping several nights in his twin bed, I asked him if we could give his crib to baby Pipa since he was sleeping in a big boy bed. He very matter of factly answered, "Yeah I give my crib to Pipa. I big boy"

**He is successfully brushing his teeth by himself, with very little supervision. He even understands how to brush all the different parts of his mouth. This is a huge step from eating the toothpaste.

**Nursery has become one of his favorite parts of church.

**He has learned how to put his shoes on by himself-- and is constantly reminding us he wants to "do like big boy". This can make getting ready to leave a Much longer process.

**Quincy eats, brushes his teeth, and colors right handed. He throws balls left handed (and very precisely might I add).

** Stickers are a big motivator in our home right now. Quincy is easily bribed into doing lots of things for a sticker or two. It doesn't even really matter what kind they are. Often we find stickers in our pockets, on our clothes, shoes, between the sheets and other random places.

**Quincy is FINALLY starting to venture out in his palate for different foods. His latest favorites and newest taste testing foods include: cooked broccoli, cooked carrots, vanilla yogurt, soy nuts, raspberries, blackberries, apples, oranges, tomatoes (though he's still not too hot on swallowing them yet- I blame Tyler), ice cream --he didn't used to like the coldness on his teeth, Swedish pancakes, waffles, string cheese.... and the list goes on.

** Quincy knows all of his letters in the alphabet, capital letters and almost all the lower case letters. He is even starting to learn some of the sounds to the letters. He sometimes remembers the 's', 't', and 'c' sounds. He will often fill in the blanks for books that we read when we leave out a word. It's amazing what his little sponge like brain has picked up on.

** Quincy learned his first bad phrase from Grandpa Loren, who absentmindedly said out loud "What the Hell?" After which Quincy immediately repeated "What the Hell?" I think he's since forgotten, but Grandpa was warned to be extra careful in what he lets slip out. Another potty word he repeated was stupid.

** Quincy has learned nearly all his body parts. From head, shoulders, knees, and toes to elbows, ankles, wrists and forehead. In addition to learning body parts he's picked up on some embarrassing habits. For instance, he has learned what and where "boobies" are. He knows that we all have boobies, but girls and boys boobies are different from each other. Mostly in the sense that girls' are bigger. In church one Sunday while sitting on my mom's lap during sacrament mtg. he said out loud, "Grammie have big boobies" while rubbing his hand over them. It was embarrassing and I think only the people behind us heard. We had to later explain that we don't touch other people's chests, only our own.

** Quincy apparently has learned his left and right hand. If you ask him to do something with either hand he will obediently do so with the correct hand. We still don't know how he learned this.

** Quincy has learned lots of new animals including, rhinoceroses, hippopotamus, giraffe, alligator, and many others.

** Quincy has taken to hanging from the bar on the trampoline, though he's extremely freaked out to actually venture to the top of it.

** Quincy apparently knows the Nike Swoosh. As he can recognize it anywhere.

** He is finally able to jump off of two feet at the same time.

** Quincy is also picking up on more Portuguese phrases that Tyler's been trying to teach him. Seeing as how he repeats everything, it's the ideal time to teach him.

There are probably more things that I have forgotten, but this at least sums up some of what he's been up to lately. We are so proud of him. He constantly amazes us with the things he's learning.