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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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Finn ~ 10 weeks

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Finn turned 10 weeks old today! He makes the cutest faces and sometimes the loudest noises out of nowhere – he even shocks himself! He is drooling more and more and is really into putting his hands in his mouth a lot during the day. He has started trying to push his pacifier back in his mouth using the back of his hand.  It’s really kind of amazing to watch him do it! He gets a fair bit of tummy time and he loves to grab at the animals in his jungle play yard. This week he really started using his legs more to kick at things too. A future soccer player, perhaps?

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We decided to have a bit of fun this past weekend and complete a long overdue landscape project!  We had some soil delivered via “Slinger Jones” on Thursday morning. Lily and Cameron weren’t too interested in all the noise – but I had them pose by the gate for a quick photo. 

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Mom and dad came down on Friday, mom to watch Finn while dad and I went to pick out some shrubs at a local nursery.  We weren’t able to find everything we needed at our first stop so we came home and unloaded the first truckload and mom, dad, Finn and I headed to the Anderson’s where we purchased 10 large Arborvitae. Dad did all of the heavy lifting, and unfortunately, I didn’t take a single picture. Ugh! We wanted to create a nice screen along our driveway to provide a bit more privacy between our garage door and driveway and our neighbors garage door and driveway.  In order to be able to plant everything we needed some assistance watching the little man so we called in Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong to watch Finn.

However, Grandpa thought it would be more fun to work on the outside projects. Kevin and his dad first tackled replacing our mailbox with a pretty new black one! Then they planted the arborvitae and I planted around the mailbox. Kevin’s mom, Pat, brought us some nice Sunpatiens! I’m excited to watch them grow and actually have something flowering around the mailbox instead of weeds this spring 🙂

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Grandma was on duty watching Finn. It wasn’t too bad of a job seeing as he slept for 3 hours straight Saturday afternoon!  That hardly EVER happens! So Pat was able to join us outside most of the afternoon too.  Here are a couple of pics from their visit.

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On Sunday Kevin and I planted the remaining shrubs out front in our garden near the street. We replaced some ugly and sparse gold spirea shrubs with gold lace junipers. And we added some blue star junipers as well.  Unfortunately, a couple of our butterfly bushes didn’t make it through the winter so we replaced those with some blooming, fragrant, miss kim lilacs.

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And here are a few shots of our front garden. So far this spring we have taken down the two large alberta spruce that flanked the front steps and we are in the process of ripping out some old, ugly groundcover from under the front living room windows.  So this is a work in progress…but the walkway to the front door is looking pretty good!

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