Finn is ONE!

On October 3, my sweet little Finn turned one. I can't even believe my sweet boy is already a year old! (I had to put his fox shirt on him for his birthday- he came home from the hospital in an outfit with a little fox on it) Before I get into the details of his big first birthday, here's a little about our Finn at one! -He finally got teeth and then they all came in between 10-12 months old. He has 6 now, with 2 more on the way. Poor little guy has quite a hard time teething even with his amber necklace, lavender oil and a little tylenol. -Even though he'll take a few steps here and there, he still preferred crawling on his first birthday. -When he blows kisses he puts his finger in his mouth and yells "muah" flinging it out. So cute! - He weighs 21lbs and is 30 inches. That's the 25th percentile for weight and 65th for height. -He loves to put all sorts of things in his mouth. He especially likes those little people things and has one constantly in his mouth when he crawls around. -He loves REAL food. He likes avocados, mangos, chicken, pasta, and really anything, except grapes. He makes a very sour face for those. On the morning of his birthday he opened up his gifts from us. Wes and I got him a Little People farm which he LOVES. Liam got him a pushable airplane ball popper and Addy got him a play cell phone. They were all hits! After the kids got home from school we went to the pumpkin patch. Finn loved the animals and we all had a great time. We then went to Grimaldis for pizza and Finn could have eaten the pizza for hours. The big kids loved playing with the dough. Then we went to Baskin Robbins for his big birthday ice cream treat from Nana. He LOVED his first taste of ice cream. I think Finn was pretty impressed with his introduction to birthdays!

Happy Harvest

I had to snap a few pics of my cuties on the first day of fall. These are our homegrown pumpkins. Wes did a great job growing pumpkins this year. I think we harvested over 20!

Cousins

We had a little cousin sleepover a few weeks ago. Izzy had just learned to read her first book in Kindergarten so she got to read us our bedtime story. How cute is this?

11 Months

Clearly I'm a little behind here, but I'm going to do my best to get almost caught up! Here is Finn's 11 month photo.  He took his first steps a few days before he turned 11 months old. Although, he is such a fast crawler, he didn't really start walking.  He's a mover and a shaker and doesn't really like to be held unless it's snuggle time. He's still the easiest kid ever to get a giggle out of. He also learned to blow kisses, wave bye bye, and fold his arms for prayer this month.  I LOVE his cute little folded arms, even if they only last for a split second. I was hoping the last month of his 'babyhood' would slow down, but it didn't. Still it's pretty darn cute to watch this little boy grow!

Jamie and Bethany's Wedding

We had the BEST time and Jamie and Bethany's wedding. All of Wes's high school friends and their wives also were there. We went to the rehearsal dinner at a bowling alley the night before and it was SO fun to catch up with everyone. We haven't seen some of these friends since our actual wedding, but it felt like we all picked up where we left off.  The wedding was gorgeous. It was a fun steampunk theme and it was just so fun to see Jamie so happy.  We had so much fun dancing, visiting, and laughing. I'm so glad that we were able to go and see everyone again.

The Temple

We've taken all of our kids to our temple before they've turned one.  I was so excited that we were going to be able to keep up this tradition with Finn.  The Portland temple now has a small, beautiful visitor's center.  We loved the beautiful Christus statue. It's always so special revisiting the place where our family officially began.














We tried to recreate a photo we did with Liam when he was Finn's age. Finn wasn't too thrilled. :)

Reunited!

At the end of August, we headed to Washington with Finn for Wes's friend from high school and the best man in our wedding's wedding! The big kids stayed with Nana. Finn did awesome on his first flight. He slept through the landing even! The first day, Finn and I headed to my 'twin' Jana's house. I was so excited to meet her little boy Darien who was born in March. We had a wonderful time together. The only bummer was that Liam and Addy weren't with me to play with Ellie, but the little boys had a lot of fun together. We did some shopping and some crafts and watched a movie, just fun stuff. I'm so thankful for the time we were able to spend together!
 
 The humidity really brought out the curl in Finn's hair that we didn't know existed. SO SO cute!