Momma’s got a new ride

Ohhhh yeah!  My first car with leather, and it is a mini-van.  But man, oh man, am I in love!  And so is Finn!  As we were driving home he kept saying “I love our new car momma!”.  Yay!

Me letting Finn open the sliding doors

 

And they’re off!

Non.stop.talking.

Finn talks incessantly.  At least when he is with us.  As I mentioned previously, he mostly asks questions, and he demands answers, so there is no “tuning him out” so to speak.  I’ve got to be listening so I can answer.  It is tough sometimes.

But we were driving in the car, me, Finn, Riley and daddy.  It was near Riley’s morning nap-time and he looked really sleepy and Finn was talking incessantly and Riley had his thumb in his mouth and was just looking at Finn with sleepy eyes.

Daddy leaves over and whispers in my ear:  “I’m pretty sure Riley’s first sentence is going to be SHUT UP FINN”.  The look on Riley’s was saying exactly that.  Not to mention this is typically something I would say, not daddy.  I about died laughing.

Some Finn-isms

I started this post about three months ago….so some of these things are really old news….alas, I already wrote them so they are staying for posterity sake.

Now that Finn is such a big boy, we let him walk alot versus riding in the stroller.  When we’re on big sidewalks we let him walk without holding hands but he knows that once he gets to an intersection he has to stop, wait for us and hold a hand to cross the street.  Lately when we’ve been doing this, he will hold my hand till we get across the street and then he will let go and say “Thank you for helping me momma”.  Such a sweet boy!

We’ve somehow gotten out of the habit of listening to the awful Silly Songs CD and now he likes to listen to the radio.  We take turns, he’ll say “momma’s turn” or “its my turn” which means we turn on silly songs, but thankfully only for one or two annoying songs.  He tries to sing everything that is on the radio, he actually knows a lot of words but when he doesn’t he just makes sounds and mumbles along, his equivalent I guess to singing “watermelon, watermelon, watermelon”.

He also started declaring songs that were “momma songs” “daddy songs” or “Finn’s songs”….it took a while for me to figure out that if it was a woman singing it was a “momma song” and if it was a man it was a “daddy song” and if it was kids singing (MIA Paper planes) or Justin Beiber (oxy-moron, yes) (and yes he knows all the words to Baby) then it was a “Finn song”.  But this was confusing for a while because it would be a rap song, aka clearly a momma song, and he’d be like “You can’t sing momma, this is a daddy song!!!!”.  grrr

Along those same lines, I’ve got an iPod and I’ve got a speaker I can plug it into and I like to attach it to the stroller while we go for walks and Finn loves listening to it and asks if I’m bringing my “music player”.  I know I’ve posted about mommy and daddy’s song (DMB You and Me) and once when we listened to it we told him that was our song and it evidently resonated with him because he announces “our song is playing momma” when he hears it, he knows all the words and sings along.  It is terribly cute and heart melting.  On a similar note, I have noticed that I have a lot of songs with explicit lyrics.  yeah, he has maybe repeated one or two of those.  time to start censoring myself I guess.

“Ta-Da!!!”  He loves to say Ta Da!  It is hilarious the amount of excitement and enthusiasm he has over this.

“This Weekend?!!!”  I think he is trying to grasp the concept of time, there are lots of questions about today, tomorrow and this weekend.  I think he thinks this weekend is today though.  If you tell him we’re going to do something he will say “This Weekend?!”.  I’ve got to get it on video because the way he says it is just really cute.

I love how when I whisper “I love you” he whispers it back.  kills.me.

He’s fearless in the water and has started SWIMMING! (see I told you I started this forever ago, since I’ve posted a whole blog post about him swimming!)

Grandma (bear) has a voice.  It used to be sweet, as in “aww, he’s talking for grandma bear, or, grandma bear is talking to Finn”…..but now it is a little red-rum-ish.  very high pitched, ear piercing really and quite annoying.

“Why?” – pretty sure this is his new favorite word.  It is NON.STOP.QUESTIONS from him all.day.long.  He is so his father’s child.

Family Movie Night

Todd had a great idea to do a family movie night where we eat dinner in the living room while we watch a family movie together.  He also insisted that we watch Mary Poppins.  Have you seen Mary Poppins since you were a kid?  Holy long movie.  Finn was practically falling asleep but he wouldn’t go to bed until the movie was over.  Poor little dude was wiped out!  Riley loved the movie too, but we didn’t let him watch the whole thing because he is easier to cajole into bed.  I made a big crock pot of chili and we chowed down while singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Riley’s Double Date

The first time these two went out, this happened:

Things went a little better this time!

 

(Seriously, check out that cheese!)

Seabrook Island Part 5: Pony Rides!

We took Finn and Maggie to ride a pony named Ms. Tiffany.  How cute is this? 

        

What’s this?  A picture with momma in it???  No way!

And video, of course!

 

Seabrook Island Part 4: The Turtle Release

We headed down to the beach early on our last day there to watch the Turtle Patrol inspect some nests to see if there were any remaining turtles to release into the ocean.  And there were TWO!  They were so little and cute and they immediately bobbled into the ocean and swam off.  It was pretty damn awesome.

The crowd gathering at the first nest.

Inspecting the nest

 

Waiting for the turtles

 

Two little turtles!

 

 

And then the boys swam in the ocean.