This past weekend was an exciting weekend in our household for a couple different reasons. One I do believe led to the other. Let me elaborate.
A little bit before Owen's birthday (early September), he began to ask us for a kitty for a present. We thought about it, but didn't get one for his birthday. We wanted to do some investigation into getting a cat with two kids (5 years old and 16 months) as well as take some consideration to the responsibilites that getting a pet would include. (Note - we did have a cat before, so it was not a new experience, but with each stage in our lives, roles and responsibilities change).
In early October, after we had done our research, we decided to start looking into adopting a kitten. We preferred a kitten to a cat so that the kitten would not know a life without our kiddos in it! We looked into a couple of different adoption places and looked on petfinder. I was looking at some pictures and Owen saw a picture of a kitten that he really liked. So, I contacted the adoption agency (which was actually someone fostering the kittens - there were 6 of them, in her home). We set up a time for the whole family to go visit the kittens last Friday night.
Owen and Quinn both seemed to enjoy the kittens and did well with them. Quinnie had to be told to use nice hands quite a few times, but she didn't hurt any of the kittens! When we left that night, we were pretty sure of a kitten that we wanted to get, but the lady wanted us to think about it first.
When we got home that night, I was playing with Quinn on the floor. We have also been trying to walk more with her to get her practicing more. I started getting her going (walking) toward Daddy and then I slowly let her get out of my reach and she took about 4 steps by herself to Daddy!! We were both so excited to see her so happy and willing to do this. She has continued to do this a couple of times a day. I know that we are definitely on our way now!
How are these two things connected? I believe that Quinn saw the motivation to get up and moving when she was surrounded by all those kittens that she wanted to get her hands on :) So I share this today as we are seeing more and more reasons in our daughter to be inspired by. She is making progress everyday even if it isn't on the "planned timeline." She is our Quinnie and she brings joy to our lives everyday with all that she does.
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