I was talking to my mom today on the phone when she told me about a friend whose granddaughter's parents never let her get dirty. We started talking about how Matthew and I are not that way at all with Finny and then I thought about all the dirty things that he has already done in his life. Here are a few. He was licked by a horse when he was about 3 weeks old...he was not impressed. He has been licked by many cows...doesn't seem to mind that at all. He's been licked by our cat, Aunt Kristen's dog, and a lamb earlier this week. (He loved the baby lamb!) He's played in the dirt and mud out at the farm...and the mud and dirt have a little more in it at the farm. =) He had a biter biscuit...what a horrible mess that was. He's had banana all over him, his chair, the floor, and me. And his favorite things to play with are shoes...especially Matthew's work boots. For those of you who need to be reminded, Matthew works on a farm with cows. You can only imagine what is on his boots.
We've had several highlights of this week with Finny. The first was Finny standing up on his own twice. I'm amazed that his legs are strong enough to pull his whole body up. The second was earlier in the week when Finny started falling asleep only in his crib. He has been teething for the past week now and earlier on in the week, I was just going to rock him and hold him since he wasn't feeling well. I rocked and walked and sang to him and talked to him, but he wouldn't stay still. Finally, in frustration I put him in his crib. Not a whimper or a cry and he was out. It was a nice moment...since this is ultimately what I've been working toward...but also a sad moment to think that he won't fall asleep in my arms now unless I nurse him to sleep at night. The third highlight was Thursday night when he climbed up a full flight of stairs on his own. I stayed behind him the whole way, but he didn't once look back for support or fall. The fourth highlight is the most fun of all. Finny discovered "running" when Aunt Deah was here and now he can't get enough of it. Thanks to Sarah, Matthew and I now have chronically sore and cramped backs. It's not easy running around...bent over...holding up an almost 20-pound baby. Tonight we tried a new game with Matthew sitting in the living room and Finny and I in the bedroom. I was holding onto Finny's hands while he was standing when Matthew called his name. He took off so fast I had to jump to keep up with him. He ran out of the bedroom and then saw Matthew sitting on the floor calling his name and holding his arms out to him. He laughed and giggled trying to get to Matthew faster each time we did it. We switched and I got to sit on the floor and call for Finny. What a hilarious moment it was when he saw me and started laughing as he was running toward me. We got a few videos of it tonight that I'll try to put up when I catch up with my pictures and videos from the last week and a half.
I'm working on getting another computer going so that I can post pictures and videos. For some reason, my employer doesn't think that posting pictures and videos of my son on Blogger is work related, therefore, they have removed any and all memory from my "new" work computer.
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