Outside in the backyard!

Here's a video at the request of Nana....it's of Finley walking with his lion, a little bit of Molly playing ball in the backyard and a little walking with Dad. When you see Finn look up, he's watching the ball that Tim threw for Molly. Enjoy......

On a side note, tonight was the first night Finley has ever cried himself to sleep. Boy was this painful for me! It took 23 minutes! The reason we chose to allow him to work it out himself is because he keeps throwing his Mation and nuks out of the crib and crying until we pick them up. He had 6 chances and that was enough....so....he fell asleep without the nuk! Not sure where this is going to go from here but Mom needs to go to bed because she's exhausted after going through that!

Finley and Libby.....

Ah! Gross Finley! Don't let her lick your tongue!
Finley had some left over Chili on his neck! Thanks for the bath Libby!

Just a cute one!

CRAZY HAIR DAY!!!!!

Today was Crazy hair day at Finley's daycare! He was actually very cooperative allowing Mom to style his hair!

IT'S OFFICIAL! HE'S BABY EINSTEIN!

Yes, LOTS of product! I was actually worried that maybe he would have a reaction....but beauty (or craziness) is painful!

So innocent.....but yet.....so CRAZY!!!!!

His hair actually looks like the crazy mess of a living room behind him! The sign of true fun!

This one is perfect! Grammie Candy went to daycare to take pictures of the hair in action! Thanks Grammie Candy!

There's a reason for everything.....

Last night was a pretty rough night for us.....Finley was just crying and crying when we put him to bed. Finally, at about 9:30, after our 2.5 hour ordeal, he fell asleep. I gave in and gave him tylenol. I don't like to give tylenol if I don't have a cause but we didn't know what else to do; we checked everything we could think of.

So tonight started the same way, but wait! While changing his diaper.....I caught a glimpse of a MOLAR poking through on the top! That's it! His first molars are half through on each side! So on with the tylenol and back to the good sleeping boy!!!!

Teeth to date: 8

2 bottom front
4 top front (well 3.75 with the chipped one!)
2 first molars

Airport Park - Friday, April 17, 2009

Okay, so these pictures make me a little sad......I think it's official......we have lost our little baby. Finley, YOU ARE GETTING SOOOOOOOO BIG!

Here are some pics of Finn at the park by Grammie's house last Friday. Of course, Mation couldn't be left out! Mation! We are in the swing! Weeeee!
Mation! We are at the end of the slide!

This one looks like he's 5!

Ah! I chipped a tooth!

I just remembered another significant event that happened on March 26th. Finley has an obsession with trying to eat Molly's dog food. Molly is very patient with this. She just watches and shakes her head. Well, this night, Finley put his hand in the water dish, Mom took it out, then he put the other hand in the food dish, Mom took it out. What happens when Mom quickly picks up both hands? HIS FACE GOES CRASHING DOWN!

Finley started to cry a bit and there was some blood on his lip and some white stuff. The white stuff we thought at first was the ceramic from the dish. We thought he chipped the dish....NOPE THE DISH WON! IT WAS HIS TOOTH! Oh I felt soooo terribly bad. It turned out to be okay however, the chip was small and didn't need any doctor action. It's a good thing it's just a baby tooth!!!! I'm sorry though Finn! Momma didn't think! We now just pick up the dog dishes to take the temptation away!

I think that catches me up for the month of March and April so far!

First "MAJOR" illness.....

On Monday, March 9th, Finley seemed to be coughing a bit and sounding a little raspy. March 10th was his 1 year appointment. He was 30 inches long and 22.3lbs. He's in the 50th percentile for weight now! No more 10%!!!! He also has 6 teeth, 2 on the bottom and 4 on top! Crawling like a mad man but not quite walking yet!

His doctor said that he thought Finley had RSV but was dealing with it very well so just keep doing what we were doing and keep him out of daycare for the rest of the week.

Thursday came by and he just seemed a bit worse, he was sounding worse and having a fever, I called the nurse just to get a read on her thoughts and she asked me a question I never expected "Have I noticed his lips turning purple at all?" My answer was "I HAD!" I did notice that he had purply lips that last couple of nights which didn't really occur to me as that weird. The nurse said to try and bring him in ASAP; he's probably not getting enough oxygen. OXYGEN!?! It never occurred to me that we wasn't getting enough oxygen! What a bad Mom am I????

I brought him in and his oxygen levels were low. They were at 92 and the acceptable level is 96. The doctor gave him a nebulizer treatment and then gave him a half hour to get his oxygen up before admitting him to the hospital.....well, the nebulizer worked! We didn't have to be admitted! This was pretty scary! We ended up needing to give nebulizer treatments 4x per day for a week but eventually kicked the darn illness! One I don't care to experience again any time soon!

Easter 2009!

Finley met the Easter Bunny today at Easter brunch! It sure was a nice day! We really enjoyed our weekend and brunch with Nana, GrampPa (don't ask!) Gerry, Uncle Adam, Cousin Ben, and Aunt Sandy in Milwaukee!!!!!

First night away from Mom and Dad!

So, last weekend, Finley had a sleepover at Kendra's, Ben's, Sandy's and Larry's house! It was our first night away from him. Tim and I went to a concert in Milwaukee with some friends and had a great time. Finley had a great time, they had an easter egg hunt and spent a lot of time walking and crawling all over the floor together! Thank you all so much for the much needed night out!

Party Night with Ollie!

We had the pleasure of watching Ollie one night while Kirsten had a concert to help with. Finn and Ollie had soooo much fun! They ate dinner together, then shredded red tissue paper all over the living room, TOOK A BATH TOGETHER, and read books and then went to bed! It was a great night!

"Mom! Ollie's splashing!"

"Here, let me help rub in the shampoo!"

Black Mail!

Finley won't really have the opportunity to take many baths with others like when I was a kid and I was put in the tub with all my cousins so I thought I had to take the opportunity while I had it! They both needed to be cleaned, so guess what - they got cleaned together! We are very efficient here!

More 1st Birthday Photos!

Well, I'm finally trying to catch up with some pictures and stories of the past month and a half. For Finley's actual birthday, Tim and I took the day off and the three of us spent the day together at the Lodge at Cedar Creek enjoying the water and eachother. I don't have very many pictures because we were so busy and in the water! We are truly blessed to have this little guy in our life. We just love him to pieces and are suprised every day with what we learn from him and can't wait to see what the future holds for us!