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Woohoo! The laptop is fixed! More pictures and videos to come...

why is there a potato in the living room?

Oh yes, because this is Finny's favorite toy now! I've found that you can offer the most colorful, most exciting-looking toy to Finny and what does he go after? A potato. A couple of weeks ago, he found a bag of potatoes. I put the potatoes back and later found him in the kitchen again with the same potato in his hand as before. Fine. You can play with the potato. Well, it's been over 2 weeks and he is still playing with that same potato. It's so bruised now that each time I pick it up I think it's going to disintegrate in my hand, but it holds up to his abuse. I told him this morning that it's time to retire the poor potato and I threw it away. He chose a new one from the bag, but apparently it's not as good as the first one. Now, he has to empty the bag out and spread them all over the house. Who knows how many more were in the bag. I'll never know if I found all of them. Ask me in a couple of months when there's a strange smell coming from my living room.

where did you get that?

This is the most frequently asked question heard in this house now. Finny finds things and I have no clue where they came from. Take for instance tape. I don't know where, but he keeps finding pieces of tape. If he's been quiet for more than a few minutes, I get scared. When I find him, he more than likely has a piece of tape in his hand, and sometimes in his mouth (scary). I'll ask him where he found the tape and he just smiles or laughs. I still don't know where he's getting it all, but sooner or later, something will fall apart and then I'll say, "That's where all the tape came from"...and then I'll tape it back up. =)

daddy and finn

Finny laughing at funny faces daddy is making.


Finny loves wearing Matthew's hat!


He can't see half the time, but he never tries to take it off.


Sometimes he crawls sideways if he can only see out from under one side of the hat.

These are pictures taken last weekend. We had a warm day and a 4020 John Deere tractor to match daddy's big one. He loved riding on it...and looking at the cows that were all around him throughout the whole afternoon.

for mom and dad...who didn't believe me

ATTENTION ALL VIEWERS: DO NOT ADJUST YOUR COMPUTER SCREENS!

See the little white things in this picture? It's not your computer acting up. It's snow. I woke up this morning to snow swirling around our house. I thought to myself, "It won't stick. It's been way too warm"


"Why is this sticking?"


"Well, we might as well build a snowman."

happy little boy

Finny at lunch yesterday eating a grilled cheese sandwich.


Yesterday afternoon was really warm so we went outside to play. He walked across the yard holding onto one of my hands.


Which made for some very dirty feet.

Finny last weekend eating French toast.

Trevor spent last Saturday with Matthew at the farm. In the afternoon they came home and played with Finny. Trevor put his hat on Finny's head and then let Finny "tackle" him.