Happy Birthday Finn!!!

We cannot believe it has been a year, or how much he has grown, or how much we love him! Happy Birthday Finn!!!!

Reason #364 why daddy shouldn't dress baby...

tragic. no need to adjust your monitors....yes those are olive/khaki plaid shorts and a red/white/blue striped shirt.

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Sooo pretty!

Finn likes to play in mommy's bathroom vanity while she is getting ready in the mornings. He likes to play with my hair brush and try to brush his own hair, he likes to bang my hair dryer on the floor and against the wall....and.....he likes to play with my headbands. I took it the other day and put it on his head....the next day, he pulled them out and tried to put it on his head by himself! Gifted? I think so! And of course I had to take a picture! he will hate me for this one day!

A Milestone!

So you know how before your baby is born, you say all these things you are or aren't going to do and then more than half of them go by the wayside once baby actually arrives? Well, we said that we didn't want Finn to watch TV, more so daddy than me, I mean I agreed with the concept, I was just nervous that I'd cave and break it at some point. However.....come this Friday we'll have made it a whole year without sticking him in front of the TV. This also remarkably enough has cut down on our TV viewing. We don't ever even turn the TV on until after Finn is in bed. So I don't know how much longer we'll be able to hold off but we're feeling pretty darn proud to have made it this far!

More fun in the tupperware cupboard!

"Clapping"

Well getting a video of the clapping has become my mission and I am failing miserably at it! Here is the best I could get....yes, this was also lasagna night!

Lasagna!

Well chances were good he'd love lasagna as much as spaghetti! Chances were also good he'd be a hot mess!

More Cowbell!

Finn kept calling for more cowbell.....just like his daddy!

Finn FUN Facts!

We hit a milestone this week and then when I was talking to one of my friends, I realized that there were a few other things I have neglected to fill everyone in on!

1) Waving and Clapping - Finn started finally waving and clapping about a month ago! He is very proud of his new tricks and it is just the cutest thing!

2) He loves balls! But now he can play ball with you! If you pull out a ball, he will wiggle his legs back and forth and wave his arms up and down and clap, he gets so excited and he just waits for you to roll/bounce it to him....he can catch it, which honestly, he catches better than I do, and then he will send it back to you and go back and forth! So much FUN!

3) He did his first sign this week! We try to do some sign language, and we aren't super great about it, but we try to do about 5-6 signs with him, the one we use the most is "more" where you touch the fingertips of both hands together. We can only give Finn about 3-4 pieces of food on his tray at a time because if you give him more he likes to shove them all in his mouth at once, then realizes he can't chew them and spits them all back out. So we can only give him a few at a time and then ask him if he wants "more". This week, when I asked "more" he started "clapping" but it isn't his usual clap, its slightly different and he only does it when his tray is empty and he wants "more"!!! It's just really, really exciting for us to see him do something other than laugh at us when we sign at him!

This one, mom?

An apple a day....

Finn stole daddy's apple on their way out the door today! He took a pretty big bite out of it too!

Finn and the duck

I've seen this happen before and I wishI'd been faster to get to the camera, what you don't see here is how he got it to the point it is at at the start of the clip! Seriously hilarious, he worked really hard!

Vroom Vroom

So we normally have this toy propped up so he can walk behind it but this weekend I plopped it down and plopped him on and wheeled him around the house, he was laughing so hard, it was so much FUN! Though his face in these pics looks like a stink face! ha!

bbrrrrrrrr

So mommy isn't so great at working the camera....while attempting to get footage of him lauging hysterically I missed it and when I thought I was stopping it I was actually starting it....turns out this was pretty cute too!

Hot for teacher!

Finn's got it bad, soooo bad.....for the teacher in the Brown Bear book! Every single time we get to the page with the teacher on it he starts kissing the book! Hopefully we won't be getting called to the principle's office for this in the years to come!

The Joys of Having a Bath!

One of Finn's favorites times of the day is Bath Time! Ever since he was newborn he has LOVED the bath! We've progressed from the sponge bath, to the infant tub, to the inflatable duck tub to now...the big boy tub! He has so much more room to splash around now....unfortunately he also has a lot more room to crawl around!

You Gotta Hydrate

Todd and Finn have started a weekly Saturday morning hike routine. This weekend they headed up to Kennesaw Mountain with Uncle Buzz where Finn saw his first deer! Finn made sure to hydrate before the big hike!

Spring Fling!

Todd took Finn down to the Kirkwood Spring Fling this past weekend where Finn got to test out....the grass! They went down with our friends Santiago and Matteo while mommy was working a wedding.

Spaghetti!

I knew he'd love it, I just did....I took three videos because it was so hilarious! I'll spare you and just post one!

10 months old!

Finn is 10 months old now! We've been taking pictures of Finn in this outfit on this blanket next to this basketball since he was 1 week old! I can't wait to compare them all on his first birthday! Here he is at 1 week and then again at 10 months! Now that he's mobile though, he's making taking these pictures a LOT more difficult!

Mother's Day!

Mother's Day is the best day of the year! I was pregnant last year for mother's day and we had a family shower in Indiana but we didn't really celebrate Mother's Day.....this year was wonderful! I was treated to breakfast in bed, Finn made me my first homemade Mother's Day card complete with paint-dipper hand prints, a spa gift certificate, a long walk and play time in the park, a nap and a spa pedicure and lunch at my favorite place! It was a beautiful day!

Summertime!

Well it has definitely warmed up here in Atlanta and with that comes summer clothes! I bought Finn's summer clothes a few months ago and have been dying to put them on him! Every day I can't wait to dress him up in another cute outfit! Added bonus: they show off his chubby baby legs!!!! FYI, his left one is more ticklish than his right!

More Balls

Well....maybe we should have kept the huge volleyball.....instead we went with an even bigger ball at our latest trip to Target! We are suckers!

Cruisin and Playin

Finn has really been motoring around lately....pulling up on furniture, cruising around it, crawling all over....his favorite toys are his balls and he loves to crawl after them all day long. And daddy is very happy that Finn loves them because he picked them out for him......after of course daddy's first venture to find some balls and came home with a regulation size volleyball!!! Thankfully we found some that were more his size!