17 & 18 down - 2 to go.

Oh man, I'm going crazy in this house with a sick Finnian.

He thankfully didn't get a fever at all last night, but he was up constantly because his nose was stuffed and he refused to breath through his mouth! I don't think I can handle another night like this :(

On top of it all, he was really gassy two nights ago, and in our experience that means teeth. So I checked his mouth yesterday and sure enough, Finnian is now the proud owner of two new teeth (Finally!!) - only 2 more to go!

So I think he's 50% irritable from teething, and 50% irritable from the cold/stuffed nose.

And I'm 100% irritable from lack of sleep and a screaming child for two days.

I need a break!

Lazy Holidays

Well the last few days have been lazy and mostly uneventful.

I hadn't left the house at all since Mass on Sunday morning. Monday and Tuesday morning I stayed home on the couch while Conor went outside to the park or shopping with Finnian. They would come home for lunch and then Finn and I would take a three hour nap. After Finnians nap yesterday we had a snack and then he was being really fussy, so we let him watch "Thomas & Friends" (we bought one off iTunes, how come we had never thought of this show for him before?!?). Once the show was over he was pretty upset, as usual... but it was almost dinner time so I tried to play with him and distract him.

Nothing was working, and I still wasn't feeling so good so I lay down on the couch and somehow Finnian ended up cuddling on the couch with me. I should have known right then that something was up. We snuggled on the couch for about 15 minutes listening to Christmas music while Conor made dinner.

Then we tried to get him to eat. Finally got him to the table but he only ended up having 1 bite of chicken. I had noticed while cuddling that he was a bit warm, and he was still warm after dinner so we cancelled bath time and I eventually got him back onto the couch with me and we snuggled while listening to music again until just before 8 (about 45 minutes!)

I got him ready for bed and brought him up, he put up a bit of a fuss but then let me read him his books and kiss him goodnight. he woke up a few times with a really stuffy nose, but he wasn't hot anymore.

This morning he woke up very chipper, so we thought we were out of the clear. I actually ventured out to the grocery store with the boys this morning and tried not to over do it. Finnian and I went down for naps again... but his snoring woke me up at 2 so I got up and left him sleeping. I heard him talking just before 3, but then nothing, he fell back asleep. Conor had gone out and got back just after 3:30 and then we heard Finn wake up... unhappy.

He was hot again, and didn't want to eat or drink so I took his temp and it was a bit high.... we've finally got him on the couch watching Baby Einstein (Thomas didn't cut it, I guess) and we'll see how the night goes.

I hate seeing him sick :*(

Colds

I still have a cold. Today was worse than yesterday. But I survived.

Finnian is in bed, and Conor and I are going to watch "The Miracle on 34th Street"

Oh, and Finnian's train set is almost completely broken now. It still runs, but the two parts don't hook up anymore.

And he loves "Thomas & Friends"... gonna have to buy him some I think, because he's so cute when we watches it.

The end.

8 Weeks - Dec 26

How far along: 8 weeks

Size of baby: (from whattoexpect.com) Our embryo is now a fetus!! Bub is now the size of a medium green olive

Total weight gain/loss: Didn't weight myself this week

Maternity Clothes: Nope - don't need them, but STILL waiting for the tummy sleeves, hopefully this week.

Gender: Still unknown. But I'm really leaning towards finding out!

Movement: Nope - but you know in those books when they talk about the first movements being mistaken for gas bubbles moving around? When I read that when I was pregnant with Finn I had NO idea what they were talking about, I never felt "gas bubbles"... but since having Finn, I don't know if my insides have just moved around or something, but I've definitely felt things that could be a baby moving around (this was even just after Finn was born, when there was NO baby in there anymore)

Sleep: No problems sleeping lately. I still mistakenly don't take naps every so often and really regret it later!

What I miss: Nothing really... other than energy, I miss energy!

Cravings: Nothing specific, just something to fill my hungry belly

Symptoms: Tired, hungry.

Best moment of the week: Christmas of course!! When the best baby ever was born!

On the second day of Christmas....

I got a cold :(

About to open his stocking

Aside from that, Christmas Day was great. We ate breakfast and then sat down to open presents. Finnian was as cute as ever!! My favorite part was when he opened his stocking and saw the kinder surprise and it took him a second to understand what it was and his eyes got really big!

Unwrapping the first present

A tractor!

We originally intended on only giving Finnian two presents and a stocking. I had bought a tractor from home and my brother Mike got him another tractor. But lately he really likes to draw, and Conor gets him paper from the recycling bin at school but we were running out, so I bought him a little notebook from the dollar store. While we were there he saw a train set and was just looking at it in awe, so Conor couldn't resist and we got it for him.

Blue notebook, green tractor (from Uncle Mike) and train

Setting up the train set with Daddy

After presents we headed off to church and then home for an early nap since we were going out at 2pm for dinner. During nap time Conor made two apple pies to bring.

Funny face! He looks upset here, but really he's happy and trying to hide it

We headed to the Australian families house for a great Christmas afternoon/evenings. It was the family (with 5 kids), the moms mother and father, and the moms sister, as well as a friend if theirs from the Emmanual community, an aussie friend living in London and Father Anthony (he put up some pics from the night as well on his blog, click here). We had a lot of fun - Finn loves playing with those kids. They had a few little presents for him as well that he pretty much played with the whole night.

Conor's pies that got rave reviews (as well as his truffles and toffee)

The sister, Bron (who we were friends with in Melbourne as well) is currently in culinary school to become a chef, so I think she was the mastermind behind the 5 course dinner last night (they even printed a menu!) and it was very delicious! It was just so nice to spend Christmas Day with a great group of people. We are very blessed to have them living so close (even though they leave in about 4 weeks), and it's nice to know that Finn can play with these kids again in the future.

I hadn't had a nap that day, so I was getting really really tired, so we left their house about quarter to 8, when we got home we went on the computer to see what Conor's family were up to, and got to have a nice 2 hour video chat with them! Finn showed off his toys for a bit but then started melting down, so I got the pleasure of showing off to the grandparents how well Finn goes to bed now! I was pretty proud - haha. After I got Finn tucked in I came back down and Conors family had migrated to the living room with the computer, so it was really just like being there, the whole family hanging around, talking, rehashing old old stories over and over again, and just catching up.

All in all it really was a great Christmas!

The kids watching "A Bee Movie"

This morning I woke up with a cold though, which wasn't very pleasant, and we were going to mass again (yesterday, today, new years day, as well as sunday and then there's a Holy Day of Obligation on the 6th - mass, mass and more mass!) Before we left I couldn't find Finn's soother, so I thought mass two days in a row was going to be a disaster - but he did really well. There's this little boy that's a bit older than him (but a good 2 inches shorter!) who we see at mass every Sunday and they usually acknowledge eachother - but because of our time with the Andersons he's really starting to be able to play with other kids. Anyways, we were in the back pew at mass today and there was a kneeler behind us, so the little boy came over and sat on the kneeler. Finn had two of his new cars there, and so he gave one to the little boy and then just started driving them around together - it was so cute!! Finn shared his cookies and raisins with him and they were making silly faces and giggling... it made my day!

Some of the gang

So that was our Christmas - home away from home!

*My 8 week post still to come*

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

This is a bit of a sad Christmas for me because we aren't in Canada with our families. It's our first Christmas just Conor, Finnian and I. But I'm so thankful to be together and to have so many friends where we are.

Last night we had been invited to a Christmas Eve party, but the son of the family had been sick in the morning, so they cancelled it. Instead we invited our neighbor across the hall (who was also supposed to go to that party) over for dinner. Finnian really likes him, and he showed off by eating a lot of potatoes and meat - we should have our neighbor over more often!!

Finnian went to bed and Conor and I watched a movie and then put Finn's toys under the tree and filled the stockings (err, Santa filled the stockings).

This morning we brought Finnian downstairs and left all the lights off while Conor turned on the Christmas lights. Finnian was really excited. Then when we turned on more lights Conor said "Finnian, what did Santa put under the tree" and that's when he noticed the presents! He was so cute. He grabbed one and then pointed at the ground because he wanted to sit and open them.

We let him play with them for a bit, but now Conor's making breakfast and we told him we will open them afterwards.

We will hopefully skype with my family again tonight (if we don't get back too late from Christmas with the Australians) and then we'll get to talk to Conor's family on Monday night.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Pregnancy Hormones

I've been noticing these fluctuating hormones lately.

Usually when I'm overtired (like a certain 2 year old I know).

Today we went down to the market and Santa and Mrs. Clause were handing out balloons in a shape of a sword. They gave Finn one and he put on his funny face (the one where he looks so happy but is determined not to smile). But if you would look at him and smile he would give you the biggest grin.

A little way down the road he was dragging it and it popped. He looked around with big eyes trying to figure it out... and then saw a truck and didn't care anymore.

I literally teared up!!! I was so upset that his balloon that was making him so cute and happy and burst.

Oh boy.

Happy Birthday Mama!

Just a little post to say Happy Birthday to my amazing mom!!!

We got to skype with her today, which was great!

Love you mom!

Chocolate Advent Calendars

"Worst.Idea.Ever" says Conor as his 2 year old son has a temper tantrum because he wants another chocolate (even though when we weren't looking he ate the 23rd and 24th)

All I have to say is never ever EVER EVER buy a 2 year old a chocolate advent calendar... and I'm just going to say right now, just don't buy it for any aged child.

It was the worst idea I ever had - and I never saw this coming.

The first day he got a chocolate he didn't quite understand, and I put it back up on the mantle afterwards and he would just look at it every so often longingly.

Ever day after that has gotten MUCH worse. I thought after a few days it would get better, but boy was I wrong.

All day long he will run up to the cupboard and point up at the calendar and get mad when I say no. Then after dinner (if we can make it that long) he will get his chocolate and then have a tantrum after he take the box away to put it back up on the cupboard.

Today though, we were doing something and we left Finn unsupervised with the calendar and he ate #23 and #24!!

Again - WORST.IDEA.EVER!

7 Weeks

I decided to just do pictures every other week until there's actually a bump!

How far along: 7 weeks

Size of baby: (from whattoexpect.com) At a length of about half an inch right now; the baby has graduated from blueberry sized to raspberry-sized

Total weight gain/loss: Up a pound from week 5 (but this is really not going to mean anything for a long time!!)

Maternity Clothes: Nope, not that I need them, but just waiting for the "tummy-sleeves" to come in the mail so I can try them out!

Gender: Still unknown

Movement: Not yet.

Sleep: A bit better - I had a great nap on Friday!!

What I miss: Not having to eat every 5 minutes! I'm just not a big eater (especially not a big snacker) so have to eat something every 5 minutes is just so tiring for me.

Cravings: No cravings, but I wanted ice cream bars (which let's face it, I ALWAYS want), but this time Conor actually went and bought some! This pregnancy thing definitely has it's perks!

Symptoms: Still peeing at night sometimes, but not the last two nights! Otherwise just having to eat all of the time.

Best moment of the week: Nothing to do with the baby or pregnancy - but the snow!!

Meet Sparkles

This is my new nickname for Finnian. Let me explain.

On Thursday morning Conor got up at 7 to get ready and go to school. I was sleeping peacefully and then I sensed something. I opened my eyes, and Finnian was right in my face grinning at me. (this has nothing to do with his sparkling, I just think it's really cute when he does this).

So I brought him into bed, and we just lied there for awhile as Conor was downstairs eating breakfast and getting ready. Every so often it would see some "flickering" on Finnian. I just thought it was light reflecting off his binky clip, or his zipper or something (even though there was really no light coming into the room). Then I didn't really think about it again.

The next night he wore the same pajamas to bed, and Friday morning I again woke up to him right in my face grinning, so we pulled him into bed again (it was just after 7, too early to start the day!). Then I started to see him flickering more and more. And no where near where his binky or zipper were.

He was blinking under his arm, on his back, his arms, his legs. It really started to freak me out.

I started trying to MAKE him flicker, trying to figure out what was going on. I started just moving him around a bit, lifting up his arm, turning him over - and then I realized, it was SPARKS!!

I think he gets really staticky with the fleecy pjs and in our bed (because I have a fleecy blanket on top of our comforter)

Is this normal?? Is it dangerous??

On a side note - it snowed yesterday!!!!

One year ago

One year ago my amazing grandmother turned 95 years old!

One year ago my sister-in-law was in the hospital only 28 weeks pregnant and contracting.

One year ago her husband was flying home from Alberta to be with his kids and wife.

One year ago my other brother was flying TO Alberta to be with my dying father.

One year ago my father died.

This year Grandma is 96 years old - my baby niece is almost 1 (she managed to stay in her mama until the middle on January!) - and my dad has been gone a whole year.

This whole grieving thing is a lot different than I thought it would be. Especially as a (then) 27 year old girl loosing her father. For a long time I haven't had a father that I talked to often (as in more than a hand full of times a year), or saw for anything other than big occasions (my graduation, my brothers university graduation, the birth of my nephew and niece, my marriage, the baptism of my son). But it certainly wasn't because there were any issues between us, or we didn't want to talk to eachother. We just didn't know how. It was just too hard - we missed each other too much.

So while I think of him often, I don't really miss him that much. But right now is different. Right now I'm pregnant with his 5th grandchild, and sure he didn't get to see Finnian very much, but at least he got to meet him and hold him. He'll never get to even meet this baby. And that makes me sad.

Today I definitely miss him.

I love you Dad.

Grocery shopping fail

I used to enjoy going grocery shopping. It was a nice way to get out in the morning for a little bit.

The grocery store that we do most of our shopping at is called Dico. It's really close, it's near the main shopping center of town, and it's discount.

Well it's changing... I'm pretty sure the owners and staff are all going to remain the same, but it's changing into a different grocery store. From now until Dec 31st (actually from over a week ago until Dec 31st) they are no longer stocking anything Dico brand, plus other things. Which means that they have milk, but it's more expensive (and even then if it's the day before they get a shipment they might not have any). They are running out of yogurt (Finn's staple lunch food), and not restocking. They don't have the sandwhich bread that we eat. Plus many more things.

Which means that I now have to go to two grocery stores. And the other one is more out of the way, still kind of discount, but we've gotten so used to products that we like at Dico that it takes some getting used to.

Anyways, yesterday I went out to do my two-grocery-store shopping... but on the way I went to the pharmacy to grab some meds for a friend. I put EVERYTHING on credit card, so I don't carry much cash. Well the pharmacy only took cash, and I didn't have enough to get her 2 meds, so I just got one, and then headed to the second grocery store.

I've gone to this store a lot recently, and quite a few times last year and almost always my purchases have been around 6 euros, and I have always put in on credit card. Well today they told me that it's a minimum 10 euro purchase to use a credit card, and my interac wouldn't work for some reason. The one day I've spent all my cash! In hind sight I should have just gone and bought some more stuff, but there was a line up behind me, I didn't need anything because I had already gone to the other grocery store, and I needed to get the meds to my friend and get home for lunch.

GAH!!

And come Jan 1st "dico" will be fully stocked again - but with new things, that we'll have to get used to, and may not be discount, so we may be doing the 2 grocery store thing for the rest of our time here - boo.

6 Weeks - Dec 12

So I was sad that I never kept a better "record" through-out my pregnancy with Finnian. I was just reading back on the posts now, and regret it, so I'm going to try to post every Sunday (this is to make up for last Sunday!) and follow a bit of a "survey". Also I will put up belly pics, but you probably won't see any changes until 20 weeks or something!

How far along: 6 weeks

Size of baby: (from whattoexpect.com) Length is approx. a quarter of an inch - the size of a blueberry!

Total weight gain/loss: I didn't weight myself this week... but at 5 weeks I had lost 2 pounds from the week before (even with Liz being here and us eating a whole box of Ferrero Roches!)

Maternity Clothes: Definitely not, but I've been thinking ahead. With Finn I didn't buy any until around 23 or 25 weeks, and even then, if I had THESE (click here) I probably could have gone longer without maternity pants. The picture in the link is a "tummy sleeve", it works in a few ways, but first off you can just unbutton your regular pants and wear it over top, and it makes your regular pants last longer!

Gender: Well with Finnian I didn't want to find out, I wanted a boy, and I felt like it was a boy. With this baby I want to find out, I would like a brother for Finn, but I kind of feel like it might be a girl (and I'm really excited about it!!) But way too early to know... I want a boy for Finn, and the fact that we wouldn't have to buy anything because I kept all of his stuff... but a change would be nice, and you've gotta love cute summer girlie outfits!

Movement: Not a thing!

Sleep: If I had done this "survey" with Finnian I never would have put this in, because to my recollection I had no sleep issues with him. But totally different this time... but I'm not 100% sure it's pregnancy other than the fact that other people talk about having sleep issues while pregnant. I get SO tired around 6pm (if not earlier) if I don't nap, so I try to nap, but it takes me at least 45 minutes to fall asleep, if I fall asleep at all. Night's not so bad, other than having to get up to pee (another thing I never had to deal with when pregnant with Finn)

What I miss: Coke - I love my coke! haha... but I'm cutting back on the sugar and caffeine, at least for the first trimester.

Cravings: I wouldn't really call this a craving, but because I want to make sure I eat more vegetables, and we got some money coming in (more on that later), we splurged and bought ranch dressing for me to having cauliflower with (I used to be an addict). It was 4 euros for one bottle!!

Symptoms: I knew I must have been pregnant about 3 days before my expected period, because I woke up in the middle of the night to pee. 3 days in a row!! This is so not like me... I usually wake up in the morning having to go, but NEVER enough to actually get me out of my warm bed and down the stairs to the bathroom. I think I've only gone 2 or 3 nights since then without having to get up. I hate it, and this never happened with Finn. Otherwise being tired, and being hungry (JUST like I was with Finn). I'll eat a regular breakfast, lunch or dinner, and then within a half hour be HUNGRY! Usually a banana will suffice if I get to it right away, otherwise I feel a little ick.

Best moment of the week: Getting to tell everyone!! I took the test while Liz was here, so I told her right away, but man, I'm so not good at secrets like this! Also I've been wearing my St. Monica medal (patron said of unborn children) and Finn has noticed it, so I told him that I'm wearing it for the baby in my tummy. Now whenever I wear it he points to it, and then lifts up my shirt and points at my belly button!!

Big News!!

I'M PREGNANT!!!!



I've been DYING to write about this, but wanted to wait until I had told a few people around here in person... but I can't keep it in anymore!!



Conor's going to be a daddy again, I'm going to be a mommy again, and Finn is going to be a BIG BROTHER!



We are super excited! I'm due August 7th, so I'm pretty early on still, just 6 weeks!



When I was pregnant with Finn I really wanted to do the weekly update with picture thing, but just never did (maybe because I didn't show until after 20 weeks!)... but I'm going to try better this time around. So stay tuned every Sunday for a little update on Baby Sweeney #2 and my belly!!!

Is it time??

It's no secret that Finnian still has a soother. Most days he only has it for nap and bedtime. If I can't get it out of his mouth as soon as he wakes up, I get it once we start eating breakfast. Sunday he gets it at mass sometimes if he's just extra fussy.

We have absolutely NO plan about getting rid of it. We don't WANT to get rid of it.

But when we were home for the summer I bought two new soothers and we both kind of said that when they disappeared or broke, that would be the end.

We lost one on a walk soon after getting here, I didn't have it clipped to him.

Down to one.

Just now I grabbed the other one to give him for nap time and it has a hole in it!

I don't know if I'm ready for this... I've heard so many people say that their kids wouldn't nap after getting rid of the soother. Not to mention we sleep in the same room, so making him cry during the night is just not an option.

We may resort to buying a new lame-o european soother... but we'll see what he does with his.

Hello house

The household chores have been very much neglected the last week and a half since Liz got here. I think the floors were swept once, and I don't think the bathroom was cleaned at all!

Finn, on the other hand, has definitely NOT been neglected... having 1-3 people playing with him at almost all times. So I thought that house cleaning might be a bit of a write-off today, seeing as it's our first day home just the two of us.

But, it's 1:30pm:

• Grocery shopping is done (unfortunately I had to go to TWO groceries stores because our usual one is totally failing at keeping items like bread, milk and eggs stocked)
• Breakfast and lunch dishes are done
• Two loads of laundry are washed and hanging (there are probably another 3 loads more to do, but lets face it, hanging laundry in the winter means the most you can do in one day is 2 loads, because that takes almost a full 24 hours to dry)
• downstairs floors have been swept (including a bit upstairs and under the bed)
• bathroom had a wipe-down (I'll "let" Conor scrub it later!)
• downstairs floors mopped (which it's been longer than a week and a half of buildup!)

All it took was one episode of baby einstein before lunch (except the mopping, which I did after Finn went down for his nap)

Now I'll finish checking emails/facebook/etc. and have a rest myself :)

Back to the old hum-drum

Liz is gone :(

Back to the old hum-drum life. Although, I shouldn't say that, because things will be busy with Christmas and then New Years celebrations.

I want to go into Rome before Christmas and check out the Nativity Set at St. Peters... I've heard it's awesome!

There's a Santa Marinella Christmas Party at some guys' house that we know on Saturday - Conor is making egg nog.

Then we're heading to Eleonora's on Sunday for the usual football - but she saw the pics of the cinnamon buns, so we might make some more for that!

Miss you already Liz!

Finn is now 2

We decided not to have a big birthday party for Finn this year - just Conor, Finn, Liz and I... and it was great!!

Conor made pizza for dinner and cinnamon buns for "cake".

While he was busy working on that, Liz and I blew up balloons. Finn was really enjoying them. Then we started blowing them up but not tying them, and then letting them fly around the room as they deflated, and he thought it was hilarious! Actually he was pretty scared, but laughed when it was done and would bring us the balloon to do it again.

For over a week now we've been letting him practice blowing out the candles of the advent wreath so that he would be able to do it with his birthday candles. He loved it - as soon as we would sit at the table he would want to blow them out already. Anyways, of course for the one day we REALLY want him to blow out his candles, he refuses. I think it confused him that they were on food, and all he wanted was to eat the cinnamon buns. We finally told him he could eat them after he blew out his candles, and sure enough he enthusiastically blew them out (and I didn't get it on camera!)

After that we moved onto presents. We had bought him a couple things for Christmas and his birthday, and my mom had given me something for him, as well as my brother Mike. So we gave him one thing from us, the one from Mom, and Liz got him a present as well. I didn't think he would understand, but he had already seen them wrapped up on the mantle and had been curious since he got up from his nap. We told him to take the paper off and he very seriously went at the task. It was so cute. The first present was a Bob the Builder DVD from Conor and I (we figured he probably wouldn't understand what it was, so to get it over with first). Then he opened the present from Liz - he was just as serious and just as cute. Lastly he opened the one from mom, and that got the best reaction. It was a tractor (which he LOVES), and when he took it out of the box his eyes were HUGE and he was just stunned... it was awesome.

He had a lot of fun playing with his new toys. We let him stay up a bit late, and I was afraid he wouldn't want to go to bed. But I showed him a special place to put his new toys and he was very happy and then gave Conor and Liz big goodnight kisses and went right to bed.

I bought these hats, but of course Finn wouldn't wear his

I seriously love this kid. Sure the whining can be annoying, and the screaming can be grating... but he is just so darn cute. If you let him walk instead of be in the stroller, he will talk and jabber the whole way home. If you ask for a kiss he will give you a big wet open mouth kiss on the cheek saying "abah!". If you ask for a hug he will run over and turn around and give you a backwards hug.

Oh and another cute thing, he helped Liz do the dishes - here's the video...

I miss the little baby Finn, but he really does get cuter and cuter!

There are more new videos on youtube (click here) and new pics for november (click here) and december (click here)

Happy Birthday Finnian!

Today is (unbelievably) Finnian's 2nd Birthday. It's just a strange thing to think, 2 years really isn't a very very long time, but it feels as though he's been around forever.

A few things that he loves right now:

• drawing - Conor get's paper from the recycling at his school and staples them together so that he has booklets to draw. He VERY quickly will scribble over the whole page and then bring it to you to change the page. Or else he likes you to draw for him. My favorite is drawing a kitty, because he always gives it a kiss after I'm done drawing it!


• Walking - the stroller is quickly becoming a thing of the past. If I'm not getting a lot of groceries it's almost easier for him to just walk and not bring the stroller at all, but I do bring it if I'm getting a lot.


• Still loves bathtime. He hates the actual cleaning process, and having to get out. And the tub is getting a bit small for him, but he will sometimes "swim" for me, by going down on his stomache in the water, but he has to keep his legs bend because the tub isn't long enough.


• Doing really well at bedtime. He might put up a fuss as he figures out that is what is coming next, but usually it's shortlived. Sadly he rarely lets me cuddle with him while I carry him up the stairs, because he wants to walk up - but I can trick him by having his blanky over my shoulder, and he likes cuddling his blanky.


• He doesn't play with other kids very often, but he is pretty cute when he does! We were at a friends house last night for a dinner party and she has a little girl about 6 months older than Finn, he's taken to fake feeding people, by taking food of a page in his book and then holding it out to you. He started doing this with the little girl last night and she would open her mouth and go "num" and he would giggle histerically. It was the cutest... he's even taken her hand a couple of times to show her something - sigh!


• I bought him a chocolate advent calendar - he has a love/hate relationship with it. As soon as I get it, he goes and lays on his tummy on the floor and then I show him which one to open, and he opens it, takes out the candy, eats the candy, and looks at all pictures behind the candies he's already eaten. But then it's game over when he's done eating, because he wants another one... and all day, everytime he sees it and you have to say no, he throws a bit of a fit!

And now a little monthly walk down memory lane

Date of Birth

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

10 months

11 months

One year old!

13 months

14 months

15 months

16 months

17 months

18 months

19 months

20 months

21 months

22 months

23 months

Second Birthday!!