Last weekend we spent some time in the yard doing some major reclamation of our gardens!  The weeds had grown like crazy and taken over our front bed in particular. Between being gone a lot and all of the rain lately we haven’t had much opportunity to work outside. Luckily Finn took a couple of good naps during the weekend which allowed us to spend some much needed time outdoors. Things are once again looking good!

Finn is really getting to be a pro at hand-eye coordination. He is constantly grabbing at any and everything with his hands.  Beginning this week he is in love with holding his feet with his hands. It seems like he constantly has his legs up in the air at ninety-degree angles and is reaching for his toes.  His favorite position when being held is to stand upright, facing whoever is holding him. He has really strong legs and is quite good at grabbing (or swatting) at your face!

He continues to sleep in a “sleep sack”. We had a rough night this week where he was waking every two hours, ugh! That makes for one tired momma! Not sure what that was all about but hopefully we won’t have too many more of those.  I’m hoping he will “sleep through the night” soon. He usually sleeps about 6 hours, but oftentimes his last feeding before bed is sometime in the 9 pm hour, which means he is getting up around 3 am! We’ve also had to make the next diaper size upgrade as he was seeming to leak through 1 of every 2 diapers. I stepped on the scale with our little man this week and I think he is right around the 14 pound mark. He has some cute perma-wrinkles in his upper thighs.  He continues to lose some hair – mostly on the left and right sides of his head. The back still has plenty of hair and the top is as crazy as ever. What is coming in is definitely blonde!

I love his expressions here!

Work is going pretty well for me. I’ve been really busy with lots of planning and season re-cap meetings since my return. The days pass pretty quickly and Finn is doing really well with Tricia while I’m gone. He sleeps and eats great, usually taking 2 long naps (2 hours or more) during the day. She takes photos of him and posts them in our baby app so both Kevin and I enjoying being able to see him throughout the day.

We have been enjoying a short work week this week due to the holiday. On Thursday we had a fun family cookout to celebrate the 4th of July with the Beilstein’s, Bethune’s, and Armstrong’s. It was a fun afternoon filled with plenty of food! We really enjoy having everyone over. Finn was so into it that he felt he’d rather join the party than sleep, so he was up most of the time other than a few power naps of about 1/2 hour each! He made up for that on Friday though, taking a few rather long naps. Kevin and I enjoyed a nice day around the house and then went out to do a bit of shopping at the mall Friday evening.

Kevin was playing ball with Cameron the other day. It never lasts long, as Lily always feels she must get in on the action. Bear is getting along pretty good these days. She hobbles along, but still makes it almost everywhere that everyone else does!

Tonight is our second date night. We will be taking Finn to Amy and Andy’s while we head out to dinner and a movie. We are looking forward to that!