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July 12, 2014

DSC_0035We have our first harvest! Finn and I picked our first 4 cucumbers on Saturday. I think we’re going to be in over our heads with cucumbers and likely giving them away to any and all of you who read this blog!

It’s been a pretty low-key week around here this week, other than breaking my phone! Seems as though it didn’t appreciate being dropped from a floor above. The screen cracked very badly and it is totally unusable unless I’m in my car and can use the phone via the bluetooth connection. Kevin did some research and found a means of ordering a brand new replacement directly from Motorola, for free! Yay! It will just take a bit for it to arrive as we were able to customize it so it has to be built and then shipped. So I’ve been off the grid, since Wednesday evening. I must say, it’s not really all that bad.

Each afternoon when I get home we head out to the patio to take a peek at what is happening in our veggie garden.  It’s pretty cool to see just how fast they go from being small to ready to pick! In addition to the cucumbers, we will have zucchini, tomatoes, and peppers fairly soon. Further down the road the baby watermelon, butternut squash (which is probably the most plentiful of everything!) and hopefully someday cantaloupe (I’ve yet to see one yet!) and sweet peas. DSC_0001 DSC_0004 DSC_0008 DSC_0011 DSC_0003 DSC_0005 DSC_0006 DSC_0014 DSC_0034 DSC_0038Debbie took Finn to the splash park, zoo (where he loves the carousel and throws a fit when it’s time to get off), and the nearby adventure park this week, where Finn discovered sand and a tunnel! I headed back to the park with Finn on Saturday where he loved just hanging out in the tunnel more than anything. And who can blame him, it was pretty hot! He also did some fun finger painting and drawing on the chalk board with Debbie 🙂DSC_0049 DSC_0050 DSC_0058 DSC_0064 DSC_0060 photo (38) photo (37) photo (35) photo (42) photo (41) photo (40)Bananas, bananas, bananas. This boy just wants to eat “nanas” all the time! He eats an entire one so fast, and then just says “more”.  It’s crazy.  We hadn’t had bananas for awhile, and now that they are back, they are in high demand!  Rice and beans are other current favorites, as well as peas (“pee, pee, pee, pee” until you get him one, once he sees them). His appetite has been huge lately. One morning he ate two and a half sausage links, amongst the other items he was having!  I don’t know where it all goes!

He continues to amaze us with his words.  A couple of weeks ago I asked Debbie to write down a list of all the words he says throughout the day, as I noticed that while he uses many words regularly, she also hears him say certain words that we don’t hear him say, and vice versa.  Between the two of us, we’ve compiled a list, which has over 50 words! I’m listing them here to look back on one day, but perhaps you will enjoy reading through it!

more, two, duck, mama, dada, papa, debbie, happy (babby), dance (des), bottle (baba), water (wa wa), doggy, pillow (pilwo), elmo (melmo), park, slide (swide), swing, bumble bee (bumba bee), butterfly (bu werfly), grass (gas), baby, girl (gwirl), rice, banana (nana), lily, purple, white, car, truck (truh), dirty, no, paci (boppy), off, on, choo choo, outside (side), bye bye, hi, up, rock (rah), flower (fower), giraffe (raffe), elephant (ephant), monkey (mummy), flamingo (mingo), zoo, finn, sammy (nammy), sorry (sorsy), please (pease), thank you (tank oo), ball, I love you (wove oo), bug, sky (ki), airplane (a-pwane), lap, book.

We’ve also begun asking him if he needs a new diaper, and typically when he does he will nod his head in an up and down motion and say yes. However, he’s also very finicky lately and doesn’t like having his diaper changed – so he sometimes says “no” (with a very cute inflection in his voice) even when he does. He understands things really well and he loves to help clean the floor with the dust mop.  When he is tired or frustrated or mad that he didn’t get his way, he often resorts to biting or hitting his head on the floor, both of which really bother me. When I asked the pediatrician about him hitting his head, he recommended just making sure he was in a safe place and then ignoring it.  With all-wood floors I’m a bit nervous about it. And the biting thing, he often bites me or scratches at my face if he gets mad when I correct him for something.  He is learning about “time out’s” on occasion. He does say sorry (“sorsy”) and give a nice hug to apologize.  So we are working on that. DSC_0021 DSC_0023I finally got around to planting *most* of the plants this weekend from the Friends & Family Sale at Millcreek a couple of weeks ago. It doesn’t look like much here, but I ripped out some ugly Yarrow that got big and floppy and replaced it with some more tidy and long-blooming plants like coreopsis and penstemon. I put in some helianthemum (sun rose), dianthus (carnation-like garden pinks), and a nice colony forming geranium.  I also planted some miniature solomon’s seal from mom and dad near the front steps. This area is now mostly complete, though I’ve got to finish the area to the south of the walkway that connects to the oak tree. Hopefully that will happen this week. DSC_0123 DSC_0125 DSC_0122On the remodeling front Brett is making good progress on the flooring. He finished the family room, part of the hall to the front foyer, the walkway to the dining room, and both of the pantries this week. It is looking quite pretty! Kevin also re-hung the trim and door to the laundry room after he did some major work on it to make it look new again. The laundry room is now back in action (super yay!) and the wainscoting is up. Hopefully this week it will get caulked, painted, and the trim put on so we can call it *mostly* complete. We still need to paint the cabinets that were moved from the kitchen at some point too and pick hardware for all of the cabinets. Kevin and his dad also installed a new exhaust fan in the first floor bathroom.  The old one was so loud and had so many years of dust and dirt built up.  Ick.  The new one looks great and is much quieter too!DSC_0071 DSC_0121 DSC_0080 DSC_0082 DSC_0085 DSC_0087 DSC_0017 DSC_0074 DSC_0088Now that the washer and dryer are back in action I washed Cammie and Lily’s bed, which had been on the porch all this time, and put it in the family room.  They love laying on the new floor, so long as the air compressor isn’t going off!  Then they much rather prefer being on the porch or upstairs as far away as possible. And here are a few other photos of Finn from the week. I brought in his infant carrier and base to take upstairs and put away and he thought it would be fun to sit in his “seat” (another one of his favorite words ). If you tell him we are going somewhere and that he needs to get in his “seat”,  he puts that word on repeat about 10 times!DSC_0094 DSC_0119 DSC_0069 DSC_0103 DSC_0105 DSC_0108

April 5, 2014

DSC_0739We started the week by heading to Menard’s on a sunny Sunday. It was the first time Finn got out of his stroller and walked through a store, as opposed to being carried! He was quite proud of himself, gauging by the huge smile on his face, and loved pushing the stroller about. And he expended quite a bit of energy!

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The weather is finally beginning to get a little bit warmer and my work is slowly picking up the pace, but I was able to get home one night early enough that we went out to eat together at Liberty Tavern. There was live music which we all enjoyed, but Finn especially, as he bounced around in his high chair.  DSC_0596 DSC_0594 DSC_0590

Finn is growing by leaps and bounds and continues to babble and say new words all the time. He says things like more, uh oh, down, duck, daddy, dada, momma, doggie, dog dog, and nana (for banana) as a start. He’s very good at mimicking sounds and words and mocking noises.  And when he spies you smiling at his cuteness, he often scrunches his nose and does his snorting trick – kinda like, yeah, I’m cute! We absolutely love having Debbie and Sammy come each day. Debbie has been teaching Finn things like shaking his head yes and no, where is your belly, hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc. He has the shaking his head no and pointing to his belly and hair mastered already :0). She often has a theme for the week, which is so fun to come home to art projects of painting, coloring, and so on. This week they made easter eggs and painted with their feet!

IMG_20140402_220547419photo-2 photo (1)-2This weekend was a busy one, as I’ve begun working at Millcreek on the weekend and Kevin helped his brother Brett, and Missy, move into their new house! What fun (and a lot of work!). He had a good time and while he was away, Finn and I went to our friend Audrey’s 4th birthday party. It was loads of fun on a nice and sunny afternoon that we spent outside, and with his cuzzies to boot! Andy and I took the role of paparazzi and snapped lots of photos. Finn enjoyed chocolate cake and came home exhausted!IMG_20140405_161458232 IMG_20140405_161614722 IMG_20140405_161557217 IMG_20140405_161058626 IMG_20140405_161655522 IMG_20140405_161657822 IMG_20140405_161707228 IMG_20140405_155830204 IMG_20140405_160431961 IMG_20140405_160441318 IMG_20140405_171449406Kevin ended up spending the night in Enon, so Finn and I had a mommy and son weekend. We enjoyed some cuddles, Sesame Street, and play time with the “doggies!”.DSC_0743 DSC_0742 DSC_0736 DSC_0733 DSC_0729 DSC_0727 DSC_0726 DSC_0725 DSC_0699 DSC_0697 DSC_0693 DSC_0691 DSC_0681 DSC_0672 DSC_0668 DSC_0663 DSC_0659

I’m excited that we are planning a fruit and veggie garden this year! We plan on planting a raised bed in the backyard, so while at Menard’s we bought some seeds and starter soil and on Wednesday night (4/2) we planted our seeds! We have started watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, butternut squash, peppers and in our window greenhouse we’ve planted chives, cilantro, and basil.  Yummers! As of today, Sunday 4/6 they have all begun to germinate!IMG_20140402_214331644 IMG_20140331_212540096 DSC_0751 DSC_0755 DSC_0757 DSC_0761