Joe says I'm losing it

After finding the remote on the dinner table and tripping over a pile of Quin's toys Joe informed me that I'm losing it. Not because these objects are not where they belong, but because I have very good reasons why they are where they are. It usually goes something like this:
I was watching TV when the phone rang so I hit pause on the remote (god bless TiVo) and still had the remote in my hand when I went to get the phone. The phone was on the dinner table because I was talking on it when I fed Quin his prunes earlier. So I put the remote down where the phone was. As I'm talking on the phone, I decide to pick up Quin's scattered toys (probably the ones he threw while eating his prunes) and put them on top of his food tray which is on the floor. I am about to put them in their proper place (the floor of a different room probably) when the phone conversation reminds me of something I want to look up online. So that is why Joe finds the remote in the dining room and then trips over a pile of toys while trying to put Quin to bed without waking him. I think he was also a little annoyed later when I made him rewind the show we were watching not once, not twice, but three times because I kept getting confused. However, while I agree I am totally losing it, I would like to point out that while he was teasing me he used the word "second-of-ly" and I bet anything that's not in the Scrabble dictionary!

Random story time: The picture above has nothing to do with anything but its cute, isn't it? It's Quin being a crabby lobster. It's not with the other Halloween pics because I had to crop out my sexy double chin before posting it :) Speaking of Halloween pictures, if I had not left my camera behind on Halloween, I would have some very cute pictures from today to post. Quin had his friend Aydin over and I watched them both...and lived to tell the tale! I wish someone had snapped a picture of me trying to maneuver 2 car seats out the door at once while trying not to wake the babies sleeping in them. Very difficult. But the best was when I had them both on the floor playing and Aydin yanked off Quin's shoe and started biting his toe!! Quin just stared at him for a minute and then started kicking him in the chin. Does that count as his first fight?

Trick or Treat

Here is Quin on Halloween - AKA the night I shamelessly used my 5 month old son to get free candy. When we set out on the candy quest he was asleep so we didn't put him in the lobster pot. There are some funny ones of him in the pot but I left my camera who-knows-where so I'll have to post those pics later. I am trying desperately to upload more pics from Halloween but Blogger isn't cooperating AT ALL so here is my flickr website for those of you who want to see more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vickigraham/

Now at first Joe couldn't understand why we needed to take our infant out Trick-or-Treating, but I insisted. We went with a whole group of my cousins and ended up having a lot of fun. Ashley was happy that we went out with her and Quin really enjoyed looking around and being outside (once he woke up and realized what was going on). The only bad part was that people kept referring to Quin as a girl. At first I got mad but then I thought, his features are just so perfect that they make him seem pretty like a girl :) Anyway, as the candy bag started to fill I got over it. Apparently you can call my son whatever you want as long as you are handing me a candy bar. As we were going door to door, one woman asked me if Quin was allowed to have Reese's PB Cups and I was like "Yeah those are his favorite!" I'm so glad Quin is too young to realize that I will get to enjoy the candy he so rightfully earned wearing his funny little costume and being dragged around Houghs Neck :)