Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Return of the Duck Tub
Riley is 'mostly' sitting up on his own, sooooooo close, and he outgrew his baby tub months ago, and I was just waiting until he could sit up, so we pulled out the infamous duck tub! GAAAAAHHH! Can NOT stand the cuteness!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Riley: 5.5 months old
well, we were blazingly late on taking riley's 5 month picture, so really its a 5.5 month picture, and yes, we'll still post another one in two weeks when he is 6 months old, along with his official stats from his pedi visit, I'll estimate now that he is a giant as he is already busting out of his 6-9 month clothes and fitting comfortably in 9-12 month clothes. But look at those chubby legs and cheeks! I know I'm biased, but damn he is adorable!
Comparisons
Finn at 1 week old, 1 year old and 2 years old (well two pictures of him at 2 years old, he just had to get in on his brothers dump truck photo shoot).....yes, we are cruel.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Finn's 2 year stats
We finally took Finn in today for his 2 year visit!
Height: 36.5 inches (90th percentile)
Weight: 29 pounds 13 ounces (75th percentile)
Head: 19.5 inches (75th percentile)
I had been trying to warn him about everything that was going to happen before we got there and he even greeted Dr. Rudnicki with a very warm "Hi Doctor Nicki" when she came into the room. He was totally cool with the doctor listening to his heart and breathing but FREAKED out when it was time to look ino his ears and eyes! No shots today (YAY!) but they did do a finger blood draw for iron and lead levels. He was really not happy with that, but was super psyched about his Snoopy Bandaid and Clifford sticker which he proudly wore on his shirt the rest of the day! Everything else is looking good developmentally, yay Finnster! Not another check-up until his 3rd birthday!
Height: 36.5 inches (90th percentile)
Weight: 29 pounds 13 ounces (75th percentile)
Head: 19.5 inches (75th percentile)
I had been trying to warn him about everything that was going to happen before we got there and he even greeted Dr. Rudnicki with a very warm "Hi Doctor Nicki" when she came into the room. He was totally cool with the doctor listening to his heart and breathing but FREAKED out when it was time to look ino his ears and eyes! No shots today (YAY!) but they did do a finger blood draw for iron and lead levels. He was really not happy with that, but was super psyched about his Snoopy Bandaid and Clifford sticker which he proudly wore on his shirt the rest of the day! Everything else is looking good developmentally, yay Finnster! Not another check-up until his 3rd birthday!
Foggy and Smudged Camera
As I mentioned in my earlier post, our camera got all foggy at the hot sweaty beach after being indoors and some little person took his two year old little finger and smudged the lens......but we thought these pictures were pretty eery and funny and had to share!
Entranced by the boom box
One day while we were swimming at the pool, a family came in with a boom box. Finn got out of the pool and parked himself in front of the boom box motionless, listening to the country music playing. This family thought it was hilarious (as did we) mostly because they evidently had "the most rambunctious 2 year old" napping inside.
Entranced by live music
The afternoon that we spent at the Water Colors pool, a live Jimmy Buffet-esque band started playing and Finn stopped all his splashing around and sat right down in the pool, motionless (again) listening to the music. He clapped when they finished each song and asked for more! I think we've got a bit of a music lover on our hands!
Eden Gardens State Park
Who goes on vacation to the beach and takes a side trip to an Old Plantation? The Lakes Family! We took a little side step over to Eden Gardens State Park one morning. It wasn't as exciting as we thought it would be, but it was a nice little break away from the beach/pool.
Tales from Lakes Family Vacation
So we rented a place down in Seagrove Beach, FL with my bestest friend Taylor for the week. We were really awful about taking pictures, I don't think we pulled the camera out until half way through the week and once we did the camera lens kept getting fogged up from being inside the air conditioner and taken out to the super hottest muggiest days. Also at the tail end of the week, we got a two year old smudge finger print on the lens. So while we have very few pictures, we do have some but we have great memories and stories, which I'll share here and then post pictures later.
Finn slept in a big boy bed for the first time. His room had a big queen sized bed, so we took the mattress and put it on the floor. He laid down in it on the first night like he's been doing it his whole life and he didn't make a peep! Riley however did not sleep so well that night so early morning, daddy took Riley outside for a walk while mommy tried to catch up on some sleep. I had Finn's monitor right next to my head, but the next thing I know I hear "HIYA MOMMA" so loud I jumped, opened my eyes and saw Finn's cutest smiling little face right in front of my own! He very quickly prounounced "Finn good nap, all done", a phrase he used after every nap and every morning for the rest of the week.
An endless week of Raffi. When we're in the car driving around Atlanta, Finn will ask "More Raffi Please" and he's just so cute and polite that I usually put the CD in......we had one rainy afternoon while on vacation and mommy thought it was a good idea to put the CD in the DVD player to listen through the TV (because mommy couldn't figure out the too complicated CD player/system in the house)......this was such a good idea, lots of dancing ensued, passed the time until the rain stopped.....however the request for "more raffi please" was endless. After two years and still not having gotten tired of this CD, I thought for sure I never would. I believe mommy and daddy have now officially had our fill. But damn it if he isn't so polite!
While shopping one day, mommy and daddy were distracted looking for a kite when we look over to find Finn with a pair of adult size sunglasses on his face. Turns out there was a whole section of kid sunglasses which we started trying on Finn. He loved them so much so we bought him a pair. He wore them the whole rest of the week, typically upside down, but he wore them!
We learned that taking a 5 month old baby to the beach at like 11am is really not the best time to take him....HOT, blistering HOT. So, as a family we didn't spend very much time at the beach after that first attempt. Instead daddy took Finn swimming early morning every day where they had breakfast, went wave jumping, played in the sand and built sand castles and moats before walking back to our house and stopping at the pool along the way. We did all go as a family one morning and one afternoon on our last day when the temps had dropped and made it more tolerable. So tolerable that Mr. Riley thought the sound of the waves was the best noise for sleeping and that 18 pound chub-a-lub napped in mommys tired aching arms for an hour. I suppose I needed a work out......
During the week we did a bit of pool hopping. Our neighborhood that we were staying in had two pools (both of which we played in). Aunt Tay Tay's sister Winn and her family was staying down the road at a place that also had two pools (both of which we played in). One day we also went down the road to Water Colors where we played in a pool that was elevated up so that it was over looking the ocean/beach. Gorgeous! We also went down the road to Seacrest Beach where we played in the water fountains for an afternoon!
Finn's favorite things about our rental house were the dual shower in the master bath and the vacuum cleaner. In the shower he would walk back and forth between the two shower heads and benches and he pushed that vacuum cleaner around the house all week. He also removed the extender hose and walked around with it making a "vroooooo vroooo" vacuum noise all week.
Daddy has a thing for stopping at random roadside places, he loves an off-road adventure! So as we were driving down to FL and he kept seeing a sign for a place called Huggin Molly's, he was itching to go there. On our way back as we were 30 minutes outside of the next biggest town where we were going to stop for lunch, Riley started crying and we passed the sign for Huggin Molly's saying it was only 10 minutes ahead, just 2 miles off the road we were on. So mommy obliged and it was seriously the cutest place and super delicious! Definitely worth the stop off!
Ever since Riley was born I've been using the word "family" alot, and this was our first FAMILY vacation. We had such a great time, so much FUN and so relaxing and so many memories despite the lack of pictures!
Finn slept in a big boy bed for the first time. His room had a big queen sized bed, so we took the mattress and put it on the floor. He laid down in it on the first night like he's been doing it his whole life and he didn't make a peep! Riley however did not sleep so well that night so early morning, daddy took Riley outside for a walk while mommy tried to catch up on some sleep. I had Finn's monitor right next to my head, but the next thing I know I hear "HIYA MOMMA" so loud I jumped, opened my eyes and saw Finn's cutest smiling little face right in front of my own! He very quickly prounounced "Finn good nap, all done", a phrase he used after every nap and every morning for the rest of the week.
An endless week of Raffi. When we're in the car driving around Atlanta, Finn will ask "More Raffi Please" and he's just so cute and polite that I usually put the CD in......we had one rainy afternoon while on vacation and mommy thought it was a good idea to put the CD in the DVD player to listen through the TV (because mommy couldn't figure out the too complicated CD player/system in the house)......this was such a good idea, lots of dancing ensued, passed the time until the rain stopped.....however the request for "more raffi please" was endless. After two years and still not having gotten tired of this CD, I thought for sure I never would. I believe mommy and daddy have now officially had our fill. But damn it if he isn't so polite!
While shopping one day, mommy and daddy were distracted looking for a kite when we look over to find Finn with a pair of adult size sunglasses on his face. Turns out there was a whole section of kid sunglasses which we started trying on Finn. He loved them so much so we bought him a pair. He wore them the whole rest of the week, typically upside down, but he wore them!
We learned that taking a 5 month old baby to the beach at like 11am is really not the best time to take him....HOT, blistering HOT. So, as a family we didn't spend very much time at the beach after that first attempt. Instead daddy took Finn swimming early morning every day where they had breakfast, went wave jumping, played in the sand and built sand castles and moats before walking back to our house and stopping at the pool along the way. We did all go as a family one morning and one afternoon on our last day when the temps had dropped and made it more tolerable. So tolerable that Mr. Riley thought the sound of the waves was the best noise for sleeping and that 18 pound chub-a-lub napped in mommys tired aching arms for an hour. I suppose I needed a work out......
During the week we did a bit of pool hopping. Our neighborhood that we were staying in had two pools (both of which we played in). Aunt Tay Tay's sister Winn and her family was staying down the road at a place that also had two pools (both of which we played in). One day we also went down the road to Water Colors where we played in a pool that was elevated up so that it was over looking the ocean/beach. Gorgeous! We also went down the road to Seacrest Beach where we played in the water fountains for an afternoon!
Finn's favorite things about our rental house were the dual shower in the master bath and the vacuum cleaner. In the shower he would walk back and forth between the two shower heads and benches and he pushed that vacuum cleaner around the house all week. He also removed the extender hose and walked around with it making a "vroooooo vroooo" vacuum noise all week.
Daddy has a thing for stopping at random roadside places, he loves an off-road adventure! So as we were driving down to FL and he kept seeing a sign for a place called Huggin Molly's, he was itching to go there. On our way back as we were 30 minutes outside of the next biggest town where we were going to stop for lunch, Riley started crying and we passed the sign for Huggin Molly's saying it was only 10 minutes ahead, just 2 miles off the road we were on. So mommy obliged and it was seriously the cutest place and super delicious! Definitely worth the stop off!
Ever since Riley was born I've been using the word "family" alot, and this was our first FAMILY vacation. We had such a great time, so much FUN and so relaxing and so many memories despite the lack of pictures!
You know you're in Alabama When....
Airbrush T-Shirt Van outside of the Big K taken on our way down to Florida
Who's Having More FUN?
Uncle Buzz who gets to push? Aunt Britt who's getting chased? Or the birthday boy riding his new bike?
Sunday, July 19, 2009
More Pool Time
We hit the pool some more while grandma and pa-pa were in town, Finn liked wearing grandma's beach visor, LOL! Amazingly we don't have any pictures of gma and pa-pa actually with us at the pool, but I swear, they were there!
More Happy Birthday Finn!
The birthday present was simple this year....a tricycle (or known to Finn as bicycle, he calls all bikes and trikes bicycles)....and a helmet! As obsessed with bicycles as Finn is, he is equally obsessed with the helmet. Hey, we're all about safety, so we weren't going to say no! I also got him a Cars book with one of those etcha-sketch pads on it, thought this would be good for the long car ride down to the beach, but it was his first present he received for the day. For his party we had friends over and a mini splash pool with slide, BBQ and cupcakes! Finn had his own special BIG cupcake and I brought it down to him while he was playing with everyone in the back yard, and as soon as he saw me coming down the stairs with it, with candle lit in it, he came running over already blowing! He blew it out before we finished singing so we re-lit it and he blew it out again and screamed "Happy Birfday Finn"!! Hahahahahaha! We actually got so caught up in the party that we forgot to bring the tricycle out until after almost everyone was gone when Aunt Britt asked "did you give him the tricycle yet?" and OMG!! NO! Seriously, HOW did we forget??? It was probably a blessing though, because had we rolled it out with all the kiddos there, there probably would have been a fight, LOL! First he got the helmet and he might have peed his pants and once he got the helmet he started screaming "Finn Bicycle, Finn Bicycle"!!!! (these pictures are slightly out of order, sorry!)
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