teeth | Our Armstrong Family

Look at all of those teeth! Finn now has a 5-tooth grin, 3 on top and 2 below. He’s been a champ through the teething process and really hasn’t been fussy or unpleasant. Honestly, he’s been sleeping longer during the night and typically one (of his 2 or 3) naps is around 3 hours a day!

While Finn continues to bring a smile to our face every day, we all shed some sad tears around here this week too. On Wednesday we had to make the hard decision to put Hailey down. It was the hardest decision I can recall making in recent years. She was totally together mentally, had a pretty good appetite, was able to go potty outside, wasn’t sick and so on, which made it extremely hard for me to go the route we did. But I realize that she wasn’t going to improve with time. I posted earlier in the week but here are a few more photos I found as I looked a few more places. Sweet memories with that girl.

Tuesday we welcomed Debbie to our family! She will be caring for Finn during the week and we are excited. She has a background in early childhood education as well as an 18 month old son that she will bring with her everyday. He and Finn can be playmates and learn all kinds of things together!

I didn’t really pick up the camera much this week with everything that was going on with Hailey, so you’ll find most of the photos are from the one day we had some fun together and several are from my cell phone. He is developing more and more of a personality and is like a little man. Lately he’s been hiding his face on the ottoman and couch. And you’ll see when we go out to eat we take a seat for Finn that “clips” on to the table. I find it a bit awkward and feel silly carrying it in to the restaurants (just being honest!) but we are always happy we have it. Finn sits right up at the table and lately he’s even taken to standing in his seat as he can touch the bench below. He loves it and it works out well for all of us :). Kevin and Finn play a game with the pacifier – they bite it with their teeth while pulling it out of their mouths and it makes a loud clicking noise. It’s rather cute, Kevin will do it and then give the paci to Finn and he will do it, then they go back and forth. Silly boys. We have a ton of new toys that Griffin loves exploring and playing with. He’s getting very good at walking through the family room with his walker. One day we gave him empty water containers to play with and he thought it was great. He loves giving zerberts, is quite expressive, and loves to dance. Here you can see some of his personality shine through! Kevin and Finn were playing together the other night and Kevin turned on Sesame Street and Finn stopped what he was playing with and sat still and watched the show for quite a long time. Then they got some good snuggles together.