Our week started out on a rough note, as Finn woke up Monday morning with a fever and runny nose.  Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong were here to watch him that day, which we had planned awhile back, and thankfully they were able to stay Tuesday and Wednesday too – as Debbie wasn’t able to find care for Sammy, and we certainly didn’t want him to catch this bug! Unfortunately, later in the week Grandma and Grandpa both ended up catching the bug too and Kevin had a bug also – though not the same as Griffin.  Ugh! Thankfully I was able to ward off the germs.  This is really the first time Finn has been sick, other than the ear infections he had back in January/February. He hasn’t ever had a runny/snotty nose and fever.  Poor guy, he woke up in the mornings with his entire upper lip crusted over.  When I would try to clean it off, he would cry, and then turn super cute and say “hi mamma, hi mamma, hi mamma” while trying to touch my face. He certainly has a good distraction strategy in place.  We spent lots of time taking baths too, which made him quite happy. 

Our week was pretty uneventful otherwise, until Sunday when we decorated our tree and began the elf on the shelf tradition.  “Alfred” (aka ALF-Raaad if you are Finn)  made his appearance and Griffin loved hugging on him while we read him the book.  Griffin “hung” the first ornament on our tree – a photo from this year’s trip to Pigeon Forge, TN. He was really proud 🙂

Can you find Alfred?! And here are a few other photos from the week. Poor quality as they are from my phone.  Finn stepped into my shoes one night, and Kevin’s the next. He proceeded to walk in his room and the kitchen – and he was pretty successful! And Debbie has been doing all kinds of Christmas drawing and painting crafts too – Griffin loves to paint (peet) and draw. The last photo is fuzzy, but cute, as Finn was “making doggy feel better” by cleaning out his nose with the snot sucker!