First Father's Day

Quinn has been working on her gift for Jack's first Father's Day for weeks, maybe months. She has apparently deduced that he, like all modern day men, needs a piece of functional art for his desk; a fixture of her own creation though -- a paperweight, of course.

Not just any paperweight though. The kid has adeptly molded her noggin into just that shape.

Back in the NICU, Quinn started on the makings of this paperweight as she perpetually turned her head to the right-side while peering out of her crib to see what all was going on all around her.

One of her beloved nurses, Galina (a woman who could bring order to a herd of ADD inflicted cats) was so good at correcting Quinn's habit that now she always turns to the left. It's almost as if her neck weren't made of tendons and sinew, but a tightly coiled spring that snaps her head back no matter how many times I try and round out the shape of her head.

And that's not the only new trick Quinn is perfecting to impress her Dad:

- Although her neck doesn't swing either way so readily, Quinn could be crowned the rollover queen. This being the only kind of rollover a parent would want to hear about, let alone see their kid to do, it was an early Father's Day gift when Quinn did a few rollovers for Jack while he gazed at his little girl over our webcam.

- Many times a day, she will take great pride in her personal research. Extending an exploratory hand out to analyze her latest creation inside a loaded diaper, Quinn quickly rejoices in her accomplishment by spreading the evidence of her work all over the rest of her, and anything else within reach.

- Not always waiting until those hands have been cleaned does Quinn then work on perfecting how to suck her thumb. This feat would have been mastered by now if her straight and fanned fingers would just get out of the way as she ends up jabbing herself in the nose and eyes.

- And in the middle of the night, when she needs a little spark of entertainment, Quinn will let out the most heartbreaking cry only to smirk when my body responds by squirting a stream of milk.

Still more stunts to come, but thought we'd share a few for this Father's Day.

Happy Father's Day to all!

J & the Jester