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Finn ~ 15 weeks

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Had a fun little girls treat with my mom and sister on Saturday, we had a pedi together! It was a nice way to start the weekend. Since I didn’t include in last weekends post – I’m just adding it here!  Hard to tell but we each had a different color!

IMG_20130622_122418_987Not too much happening around these parts this week.  The biggest news, since Finn rolled over last Saturday, is that he can no longer be “swaddled” when he sleeps. Sunday night was the first night without a swaddle or anything – just the sweet little boy in his cosleeper. As you can see he is getting pretty big, he touches the sides of the cosleeper when is moves around.   I had prepared myself for a sleepless week, but he did great!   I’ve since purchased some “sleep sacks” which he seems to love. Even during the day he took some crazy long 2-4 hours naps during the days this week.

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The photos tell the story here!

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Lily loves to get in on the tummy time – or any time really! She is always up for interaction and attention 🙂

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He is a real champ at tummy time. Notice here, in the second photo, his widow’s peak.  He is losing a fair amount of hair on both sides for the most part, just a bit on the top. And what is coming in is pretty blonde!

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On Friday evening we headed to the Powell Festival for a little bit for some food and fun. We walked around and listened to some music.  Finn fell asleep not long after we arrived. Here he is doing his best RoRo impersonation, just one finger off!

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And here are a lot of photos of Finn’s first real session in his walker.  He loved it!  I’m posting a couple of videos, hopefully you will be able to see them. I haven’t yet figured out how to imbed them right into the blog, so for now you may have to download them in order to view – but you’ll be glad you did! He is becoming quite the conversationalist. Here are a bunch of photos showing his many expressions.

Click here to watch the videos: Finn talks and giggles & Finn talks to daddy

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Finn ~ 14 weeks

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What a fun week – Father’s day on June 16th, which was also Finn’s 3 month birthday! We like the number 16 around here!

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Kevin’s dad and mom as well as his brother Brett and his fiance Missy came over on Father’s day for a nice cookout in our backyard. We all had a fun time and Finn and daddy enjoyed his new hammock. Here are three generations of Armstrong boys! The pictures can tell the story.

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Cameron was smelling the flowers, thought it was rather cute!

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Here is Finn posing next to his car on his 3 month birthday with pals Cameron and Lily!

 

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Finn is really loving walks outside. He is all smiles lately and really loves to make noises with his mouth. He blows bubbles and mimmicks noises we make at him.  For the first time this week, he put my thumb in his mouth and chomped down on it for a good five minutes. In the end I had drool all down my arm! Look at our lil man, simply adorbs!

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Taking up a bit more real estate on the changing table these days!

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We headed up to Mansfield on Friday night for a weekend with the family. It was our first overnight road trip with Finn.  He did pretty well, but overall wasn’t too into sleeping for a large portion of the weekend. Perhaps the new environment intrigued him such that he didn’t want to miss anything, therefore he was awake more than he should have been! We had a fun time celebrating Father’s day with my dad, since they were out of town last weekend for Father’s day. Here are all of the kiddos enjoying their visit. And dad is pretty stoked about his new tools!

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Saturday evening we laid Griffin down before we had dinner. I went up to check on him and when I walked in – look what I found!  He was on his tummy, yep, he rolled over! Uh oh…fun times ahead!

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Once they can roll over you aren’t supposed so swaddle them with their arms inside so this coming week may be a fun one. He still tends to startle and wake himself when his arms aren’t wrapped down. We decided perhaps he wouldn’t be able to roll over if we put some speed bumps in his way 🙂DSC_0367

And finally, now that Amy and I are no longer prego we needed an updated family photo that included Griffin and Greta. Amy (and Andy, ha!) captured a nice one!IMG_6038

Finn ~ 12 Weeks!

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We have had a pretty low-key week around here! On Saturday, June 1, Kevin and I were able to go out for the first time (together) since we had our little man.  Cameron Howard babysat Finn for a few hours in the evening while we went to hang with some good friends at The Bunker – a concert venue at the Muirfield Country Club which helps raise funds for the Ronald McDonald house. The Menu’s were playing that night so we enjoyed a bit of the show and hanging out with our friends before the storms rolled in. Unfortunately, they stopped the show and asked everyone to leave as there was lightning in the area and we were in a metal-framed tent. Ugh!  But no fear, we all piled in our cars and headed to Jimmy V’s in Shawnee Hills to hang for awhile instead. It was a good first night out 🙂  And Cameron loved on Finn for a few hours. I think he slept most of the time!  Here are some photos of Finn and Cameron, his first non-family babysitter!

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On Sunday, Kevin’s parents came to town to watch Finn for the afternoon while Kevin and I went to the final round of the Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin. They took him on an afternoon trip to visit Pat’s brother, Dick, and his wife Cheryl who live in Columbus. They hadn’t yet met Finn so they were able to spend a nice afternoon outside. He was doted on and enjoyed the fresh air for sure! Grandma put him right to sleep!

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I return to work on Monday. I can’t believe it is already time…it goes by way too fast.  I’ve been all over the map emotionally, driving Kevin a bit nutty I know. It’s a tough time for me, but we have been fortunate to find a great sitter that will come to our house each day and care for Finn. Tricia began on Monday and came all week while I was still home so she could get to know Finn and I was still around to show her things around the house and get her used to our routine. She has been doing an awesome job. Finn loves her and she is great with him. Kevin found an app for Tricia, me, and himself to use that allows us all to see when Finn has eaten, slept, been changed, etc., all from our phones.  It is really awesome!  You can also take photos and caption them – so it is great to be able to see those throughout the day!

On Friday, while Tricia was preparing a bottle and I was working on Finn’s baby book Finn was taking in some tummy time in the living room. Tricia went in to check on him and got so excited when she saw that he TURNED OVER!! He rolled over from his stomach to his back! While I obviously didn’t capture any photos while it happened here are a few after the fact.  We were both so excited he got a sad little scared look on his face for a quick minute, a little pouty lower lip.  But that went away pretty quick!

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We also tried out the Bumbo seat for the first time. He took to it pretty well….but like a leaning tower he gradually leans to the left after a few minutes!

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Here are a few other photos from the week. He loves getting a bath so I included this photo, which is a bit blurry, to show his expression and how he loves to splash around.

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Somehow I missed getting a photo of Cameron this week. But I did get a couple cute ones of Hailey and Lily. Hailey is pretty slow in her old age. She still makes it up and down the steps but always barks for a bit first. She wants to make sure it’s worth her effort to get up or down them! So this is a perfect shot of how she lays at the top and just barks until someone encourages her to make the trip down. Lily on the other hand loves gazing out the front windows at just about everything.

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And here are some final photos to capture our little man.  He’s getting some nice chubby legs and smiling all the time. These are some of his typical expressions. And he is a champ at tummy time.

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