Hot air balloon festival and Duncans Mill

Last weekend we went to the hot air festival here in town. Unfortunately it was really foggy that morning so there was limited flights, Kieran loved the balloons anyway though. Yesterday we went to the "ducky derby" in Duncan's mill which is a festival to support the redwoods with rubber duck races. Kieran and Quinn had fun hanging out, the weather was great

a mess

Quinn sleeping, he stays awake alo more nowadays during the day and is sleeping a little better at night.

Kieran and Charlie playing outside, they play chase quite a bit together and have a good time together eating random things in the backyard, I don't know which of the two has more disgusting things in their mouth at any time.

It got really quiet yesterday afternoon, when Jennifer came to see what the silence was about, she discovered Kieran had opened the food pantry and found the chocolate sauce, he then got a cup out and tried to make chocolate milk (without the milk), needless to say, it caused a mess

July

It has been pretty hot out here lately, we have had the AC on and the fans going to keep cool. Quinn has been alot more active the past week or so, looking around alot more and staying awake much more during the day. The last day Erin was here we went to the discovery museum near the city and Kieran got to play in a cowboy camp, here he is trying to ride the horse

June

Erin came up and stayed for a week, it was a great help to have her around playing with Kieran and helping with Quinn. Quinn is starting to stay awake more but still sleeps much more than Kieran did (but his actual due date was just last Friday). Erin and I brought Kieran to see his first real movie (Ratatouie), he had fun and watched most of it before he started to get ancy.

Fishing

Kieran has been on a kick the past few days where all he talks about is fishing. A few days back I made him a little pole from a stick and string and that is all he wants to play with. Yesterday we went out and got him a cheap little pole and box and went to the pond at the top of the street. Today that is all he talked about again, so we went back up again, we haven't even been using real hooks or lures, but Kieran is happy as can be letting me cast for him, then reeling the line in. He likes to carry all the gear up to the pond as well, he is a little character.

A few more pics of Quinn

Including a pic of him after his first bath

6 Days Old

Quinn is doing well, still watching his biliruben levels but besides that he is doing fine. He has the hiccups all the time and spends alot of time awake staring.

Quinn

Some more pics of Quinn lounging around (and Kieran playing with some hospital tape)

The hospital

Kieran had fun in the hospital but would get a little restless since there wasen't too much for him to do. Quinn spent most of the time fighting his jaundice and feeding. He had to have his foot checked out because it was swollen, he got pretty beat up during the delivery, but is doing fiune now. Jennifer is doing OK also, but because of the operation will be on very strict restrictions and won't be abe to do much at all for a few weeks. Quinn and Jennifer will be coming home today

Quinn Michael Skaalen

Was born on Friday June 8, 2007 at 2:20AM. He came three weeks early but still weighed in at 8 pounds 9 ounces. He had high biliruben levels which was leading to a alot of jaundice, so he had to stay in a special light emitting chamber to get his levels down.

Big Sur

Some pics of Kieran and Charlie at the river

Big Sur

Went camping this weekend to Big Sur. Had a good time, cold at night but great during the day, spent most of the tim with Kieran and Charlie at the river swimming and throwing steins (rocks). Kieran also played a little hde and seek in a old redwood.

Petaluma eggs and butter festival

Last weekend we went to the petaluma eggs and butter festival. Kieran enjoyed playing on the tractor and with the suffed animals at the boy scout stand. the parade was really good, Kieran watched it for about an hour

Bodega Fish Fest

Kieran was in heaven at the Bodega Fisherman's Festival today. All his favourite things were there including fire engines, helicopters and boats. He got to see two helicopters land, play on the fire engines and step on a coast guard boat. He now says a lot more words, "boat" being one of his most used.

Easter Weekend II

Tory and Deedee came up for the weekend, we had a great time during the visit, we went to another easter egg hunt/brunch at a local winery, Kieran had a great time looking for the eggs throughout the vineyards. After brunch, we went over to the coast and hung out all afternoon enjoying the good weather, Kieran found some tree roots he could climb on and had a blast climbing on them

Easter Weekend

We had a really nice easter weekend, on Sat morning Kieran went to the town green and went on a easter egg hunt and had his face painted, he really liked the easter bunny and had to give it a hug before we left. On Sunday morning we went to a sunrise service at a house of one of the members of our church, a beautiful view over the vineyards.

More pics II

Here are yet a few more, Kieran loves to eat outside (he loves to be outside as much as he can, here he is giving his "where is it" look), then 2 more from the discovery museum, in the fish river and running through a tunnel.