Daddy and Beatrice give Quentin some dodo

Beatrice always want to help around especially with her little brother, here she is holding the bottle for Quentin while daddy is assisting her and holding Quentin.

1 week old Quentin

I can't believe he is so big for a 1 week old baby, but of course he is a 9 pound baby at birth.

Quentin's 1st Well-child appointment

We take Quentin for his well-child appointment at NWA Pediatric Clinic by MANA.

Quentin's Vital Signs from 11/09/11

Weight: 9.33 lbs/4.23 kgs

Height:20.71 in/52.60 cm

Head circ: 14.33 in/36.40cm

While waiting for the doctor, mama is holding Quentin

 Daddy what's that face for?

Quentin getting his height measured

 Daddy is making sure Quentin got measured accurately

 And of course Manang has to make sure the weighing scale is working properly

Instead he is placed on a different weighing scale ;-)

Quentin's 1st sponge bath at home

November 7, 2011 - Beatrice was a little helper when I gave Quentin his first sponge bath at home.

Quentin's is finally got to go home with us

It took us a while to be cleared from the doctor since I was running a low temp fever and at some point they may even want me to stay for another day just to make sure everything was fine, good thing the fever subside and we got to go home, which I prefer where I wanted to be.

Manang Beatrice keep herself occupied by reading/looking at some books that daddy packed for her while waiting for Nanay and Quentin to be checked out from the hospital.

Quentin is buckled and ready for the journey home.

Daddy is making sure everyone in the car is buckled up including Manang.

Quentin's arrival!

We went to the hospital on the 31st of October to have my labwork and paperworks done and have Nanay seen with her OB-Gyne since she had a contractions that night and so far you are not ready to come out so we waited for the date that we planned to have you on the 3rd of November.  

Lola Cathy and Lolo James came to the house on the 2nd of November to watch Beatrice while we are in the hospital.   Nanay can't hardly sleep that night so she is up by 4am and started getting ready because our check in time is 5:30am at Willow Creek Woman's Hospital in Johnson, AR. 

You were delivered via schedule C-Section since I deliver your Big Sister Beatrician through C-Section.  We arrived just barely 5:30AM and we check-in at the Peri-Op to have Nanay ready for the surgery schedule at 7:30AM.  After hooking me to all the apparatus needed the anesthesiologist came in to talk to me about the procedure and then Dr. Robert Hix who is going to deliver you came and talk more about the procedure and offer a prayer.  Then Whitney Lewis Nanay's good friend from her previous work at the Bank of Fayetteville came to visit and of course wanted to be the the first one to see you when you get out from the OR.

I was wheeled to the OR at 7:21AM and dada came in when they are already started working on me and you were born at 7:45AM and you were 9 pounds and 2 ounces, 21 inches long and 14 1/14 inches is your head circumference.  And dada took you to the nursery along with the nurses.  Whitney, Lolo, Lola and Beatrice were already waiting for you around the nursery room which they can see you through a glass window.  While Nanay is still being treated at the OR and watched in the Post-Op before she got to see you.

With Ninang Whitney

Daddy is always there

Quentin is getting ready to see the world!

And there he is!

Ninang Whitney, Manang Beatrice, Lola and Lolo watching Quentin in the nursery

Ninang Whitney is quiet a photographer.

The nurse is cleaning you up

more cleaning up...

Lolo, Lola and Beatrice are just waiting

And now Lola get to hold you and look at her face lit up.

And Manang got her fair share of her little brother.

And Lolo got a turn to hold his first grandson

And of course it's daddy's turn.

Beatrice's Well-Loved Bunny Got Washed

During one of Beatrice's baby shower someone gifted us a yellow bunny.

When we went to celebrate Easter with her Lola and Lolo, one of her Lola's gift was an identical bunny which she immediately threw it away and showed no interest on it since she already had one that she was attached to.  We kept it anyway thinking we might need it in the long run.

Lo and behold we lost the first bunny at the mall because she insisted on bringing it with her.  She had a hard time going to sleep because she doesn't have her old bunny, good thing we had the spare one but she won't take it, I even tried getting milk on it, my own and her sweat just to have that sour smell but she won't take it and insisted to look for her old bunny.  She would cry and cry for the life of her but she eventually got used to the identical bunny.

Then on day we decided to give her bunny a wash since it was filthy, I explained to her what I'm going to do with her bunny and she seemed to understand and was OK with it, until the bunny went inside the dryer and closed the door then her little world fell apart and when cried and cried and can't be consoled until the bunny was out from the dryer.

Here's what had happened...

Looking at her bunny while getting ready to be washed.

Still a happy camper.

Now we are getting ready to dry the bunny, it took her a while to put the bunny inside the dryer.

This is what happened while waiting for the yellow bunny to come out and I even tried bribing her with her purple bunny which looked the same but different color.

And now the bunny is ready to be taken out.

TADA!!!

Reunited and it feels so good...

My bunny needed a hug from me..

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She loved her bunny that she gave the bunny sweet kiss.