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April 26, 2015

IMG_20150423_225255286Well, spring has been here in full-on beast mode with my work, which means I’m several weeks behind with the blog. The weeks are all pretty much blur, and I certainly miss being home spending time with Kevin and Finn. But we have captured some photos and a fun video of our amazing and silly little boy.  Above, where Finn is sleeping, is often how I see him these days when I check on him after I get home from work. And it’s pretty much what I feel like doing myself!

Over the weekend we had some fun in his room. He loves to climb and balance himself on rocks, or in this cased daddy. And balance the circle on his head 🙂DSC_0027 DSC_0025 DSC_0005 DSC_0006 DSC_0010

 

Finn continues to have fun weeks full of adventure and play. This week the monthly play-group had a play date at the Franklin Park Conservatory. Finn used to not like the butterflies, but now he loves them and likes it when they land on him!

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Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong came up to play with Finn on Sunday afternoon while Kevin and I went to a Michael W. Smith concert in Springfield with a couple friends. It was a really nice concert, that Kevin had discovered would be happening several weeks back. A nice treat on a Sunday afternoon. I grew up listening to his music and hadn’t seen him in years and he sang songs both old and new!DSC_0034 IMG_20150426_160847

 

March 8, 2015

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After returning from Canada we had a really calm week, as in we just hung around the house and had low-key evenings.  The highlight of the week was on Sunday when I met up with several of my girlfriends from my college days at OU. We (and most of the kiddos, though not Chase) met at COSI for an afternoon of fun! I haven’t ever been to COSI (at least since I was a little kid) and I thought it was great. I actually wish we’d gotten a membership earlier in the winter so we could have headed there with Finn on the cold harsh days of winter. We will definitely be heading back as we probably only explored 1/4 of what there is to do there, if that. We had fun in the kiddie play area, the water zone where Finn and I sat inside a submarine, and several attempts at pulling up a bowling ball using a rope that when the ball fell it launched a tennis ball as high as the top of the ceiling. The kids thought it was great. And while none of us adults had much time to chat as we were all chasing our kids around it was lovely to see everyone if only for a short while!IMG_20150308_111910898 IMG_20150308_114044705 IMG_20150308_114052162 IMG_20150308_120018962 IMG_20150308_120124347 IMG_20150308_120241955_HDR IMG_20150308_122558251 IMG_20150308_130730451 IMG_20150308_132132281 IMG_20150308_133102965 IMG_20150308_133257624 IMG_20150308_133430678 IMG_20150308_133517147 IMG_20150308_133706203 IMG_20150308_151349 IMG_20150308_151303

Friday evening and most of Saturday I was at our Women’s retreat for church. Finn and daddy had a fun guys night in which included a pizza party! Check out Finn and his stringy cheese.

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Birthday week (times two!) is up next, stay tuned!

February 22, 2015

DSC_0035Remember this? While there is still snow on the ground here the weather is certainly warming up.  Between work, travel, and just everyday life I’ve gottten a bit behind on the blog over the last couple of weeks!  So we’re just going to travel back in time a bit to when we had a big winter snowfall.

Finn loves going outside to play in the snow and help shovel (shobel) with his daddy. Since our driveway is pretty long Kevin is happy to have a helper 😉  Albeit on this particular day it was right before nap time so he was a bit bleary not to mention suited up pretty well for the cold weather so it was a bit more difficult to move than in an everyday outfit! The first two pics are from our new kitchen window. It’s just so pretty to look into our backyard and see this. I love the amount of trees we have and the large backyard and when the snow falls it looks so serene.

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DSC_0012 DSC_0006 DSC_0017 DSC_0011 DSC_0015We even brought Lily outside (to be quite honest she was yelping from inside, practically begging to come out). She loved adventuring around the front yard and running super fast through the snow. DSC_0023 DSC_0024 DSC_0040 DSC_0030 DSC_0045 DSC_0047 DSC_0048 DSC_0050We even played a game where Kevin tossed a shovel full of snow on top of Lily, and then Finn wanted daddy to do the same thing to him!DSC_0051 DSC_0052 DSC_0054 DSC_0056 We purchased a basketball hoop for Finn this week – he absolutely loves it! He was shooting so well that I decided to take a video of him. Check this out – he made four shots in a row!

Finn’s verbal skills are getting so good. He is learning new words every day and showing that he understands new concepts too. He often surprises me with what he says. If we ask him to try to say something he is usually game to repeat it – and he is usually quite good! He’s putting 3, 4, or 5 words together at a time, all the time! Some popular ones are “miss you so much daddy”, “love you so much”, “right here mommy”, “that’s enough now, nuff”, “where is daddy at”, “lily (yily) come now”, “lily (yily) that’s nuff” (if she’s drinking a lot of water), “help daddy shobel now outside”. You get the idea 🙂

And here are a few more odds and ends. We now have our pendant lights above the island up! Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles. Finn and I did some early Easter painting. And of course we always enjoy donuts around here!20150216_205738-2 20150216_201306-2 DSC_0001 DSC_0004 DSC_0005 IMG_20150221_120130810

Have a good week!