Quinn's 3rd Birthday!

Trying out a new birthday present

Opening one of many presents

Quinn's Spiderman cake

Quinn turned 3 on March 4th. We waited to have his party until 3/12 since Caden had not been home that long on 3/4. Quinn had a great birthday and made out with a lot of presents, as usual. He likes to say "I'm 3 now" and also likes to let us know he will be 4 next. Caden enjoyed the party too. His favorite part was eating wrapping paper!

Buzz Lightyear

Quinn's impression of Buzz Lightyear. I'm not sure where he gets this from!

Pics from this past week

Quinn's new Lightening McQueen sleeping bag we got him for his 3rd birthday. He likes to sleep in it in his bed.

Caden has learned that he can crawl under the exersaucer.



Quinn & Caden playing in the basement. Caden is smiling but won't remove that thumb!

The boys in their red chairs in the basement.

The boys in the new double stroller...don't they look thrilled?

They both fell asleep in the car.

Bathtub fun!

This week started out with Caden's first doctor appt. He weighs 22 lbs (68th percentile) and is 30.5 inches (90th percentile). Everything checked out fine. Of course, now he has a cold and is so congested. I guess we may end up taking him back to the doctor next week.

The week ended with Quinn's 3rd birthday (March 4th). We took him to The House of Bounce and he loved it. He has been before but its been a while. He was a little hesitant at first, which is normal for him. But, by the time we were ready to leave he was going down the big slides by himself. He thought all the kids were there because it was his birthday and it was a party for him. We didn't bother to tell him otherwise.

We're hoping for warm weather this coming week!

Settling in at home

Quinn thought it was very important to introduce Caden to Spiderman

Caden in his hanbok hat. I didn't try on the entire outfit, just the hat.



Caden just looking cute!

We have all settled in really good. Quinn continues to be a good big brother and just loves Caden. He still gets jealous every once in a while but I'm guessing that may continue to happen.

Caden is still doing good at eating, sleeping, sleeping in his crib, riding in the car, etc. He is such an easy baby. He is also a busy baby. No wonder he sleeps so much, he never stops moving! The past few days he has tried taking a few steps. He will definitely be walking very soon. He's still not eating from a spoon very good but we're trying rice cereal a few times a day. I sat him on the scale and he weighed 23.6 lbs. We go to the doctor on Tuesday for his 1st appointment.

Adam and I are doing good at handling 2 boys! It's busy with 2 and tiring. I'm already planning on a nap tomorrow. We ordered a double stroller and are looking forward to warm weather so we can take the boys on walks, and so we can go to the zoo.

Smiles

Caden is adjusting great so far and we're even starting to get some smiles and laughs!

C-A-D-E-N pics!!!!!!!!!!!

He's a thumb sucker!

The first smile I saw

It was time for a nap so I walked and bounced him and he fell right asleep

Whoa, check out that hair!

Another smile but he wasn't willing to take that thumb out of his mouth!

Mommy & Caden

A few more crazy hair pics




Seriously mommy, we have to take another plane ride (at the Chicago airport after our 12 hour flight from Seoul)

Daddy with his 2 boys!


The flight home was much better than the flight there. It was 2 hours shorter and just went by faster seeing that I had Caden to take care of. He did so good on the plane. He would be awake, we would play with toys and watch TV, he would then take a bottle and sleep for a while. He did this a few times and then the last 4 hours of the flight he was awake. He rarely cried, only when he was hungry.

Speaking of eating...WOW, he is an eater! He chugs 8 oz. bottles! His foster mom said she gave him rice cereal and bananas. I tried rice cereal and baby food but he's not really into it. As soon as the spoon is in his mouth he moves his head. He doesn't spit the food out though. So, we'll keep trying.

Our first night at home went really well. Caden gave Quinn a few smiles. He went right to Adam. He played with toys and was checking everything out. At 6:30 he was exhausted and fell asleep. He slept from 6:30-11:30, from 12:30-3:30, and 5:30-7:30....10 hours total!! He falls asleep easily (so far) and doesn't wake up when I put him in his crib (again, so far). I am surprised he sleeps in his crib because he was used to family/co-sleeping with his foster mom. So far so good. This is quite shocking for us....to have a good eater and a good sleeper as big brother Quinn is not really into either!

Quinn has so far adjusted well to having a baby brother. Last night he gave Caden lots of hugs and kisses. Quinn said Caden's crazy hair ticked him when he gave him kisses on his head. This morning Quinn said "Caden is not going to Korea. Caden is going to stay at my house.". I guess this means he realizes that Caden is here to stay!

I'll post pictures of our homecoming later. My wonderful cousin came with Adam and Quinn to the airport and took pics of us seeing each other as a family of 4 for the first time! She also got some really good ones of Quinn & Caden once we were home last night. They all turned out so good. I'll post those pics later.

Caden just woke up from his nap (2 hours!!!).

I'll update again soon!

We made it!

Just got settled into the hotel, 6:30 am OH time. Very tired but heading out to get something to eat and then going to sleep. Will update more tomorrow!