Pulling a Perrin

We call this pulling a Perrin for a reason.

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Perrin is still the master of taking off his clothes, and we don't have to put his footie jammies on backwards yet, but this still cracked me up because he had no idea how to get his shirt off of him like this!

Cream cone

This is Finn's newest fascination. A cream cone. He made this one himself and walks around pretending to lick it, and making you lick it.

Creative Problem Solving

This is Jackson's playroom. Finn likes it there.

I would like to note that they are in a cabinet. Jackson is FOUR YEARS OLD and has never crawled into this cabinet.

Finn, however, took all the toys out, and crawled right in in no time, and then taught Jackson how. My son has a special gift for Danger and Mischief. And Climbing.

It's hard to see, but this cabinet is like 3 feet off the ground.

Here they are, with sister Stella, winding down after a long day of climbing at Auntie Amber's house. That night, he slept well.

Pink Eye

So, it's hard to see in these pictures, but Finn has looked like some kind of rabid beast for days. His eyes were raw and red swollen so you couldn't see the lids. He's been crying nonstop, and I haven't been able to take him outside, or even in the car at all. It's been rough. I thought pink eye was no big deal, but I guess I was wrong. This was a real show-stopper.

Just today it started looking a little more normal, though he's still not sleeping well and very clingy. I can't wait until this is out of his system!

Hopefully, he will look like this again soon!

Today

Sorry, things have been crazy. At the end of last month I had 3 births in one week, and then 3 post-partum checkups, and the list goes on.... so I've been away. :)

A short little news bit is that Finn has pink eye. He's been very upset, and I've been just as upset when I give him the eye drops. But when I ask him, he tells me he still loves me each time, so I guess it's OK even if he does keep his distance for a while after I hold him down and squirt stuff in his eyes...

Here's a recap of the last 48 hours or so...

In the morning, he woke early and climber into our bed to harrass us into waking up like he usually does. I coaxed him back to sleep for a little but, and when he awoke, Daddy had left for work already. Finn woke up and said, "where's my bink?", which he still gets at bedtime and had left in his room. He then got out of bed, went and got it, and then made me help him put it away because 'Its not night night time, mom'. Then he went back into my room, looked at me very seriously and said "Daddy far away. He at work." It was very cute.

I knew he wasn't feeling well when we went for a wagon walk to the park (two of his favorite things) and he had his hands over his eyes and whimpered the whole time, and then wouldn't play on the slides at all. Then I took him for his first ice cream cone (because he tells me about ice cream cones all the time), and he hardly ate any. He DID, however, eat a bunch of potato chips, instead. His menu choices continue to baffle me. By the time we got home he had rubbed his eyes raw, and they were so swollen you could hardly see his lids. Poor kid. And I had to close all the blinds in the house because the light hurt his eyes.

So, we made a doctors appt the next day. On the way he kept on crying because it was 'too bwight'. But when we hit a patch of construction with tons of weaving and traffic cones, he felt well enough to exclaim, "Mommy has a RACECAR!" which was hilarious.

Then, after our pink eye diagnosis, on the way home, he started paraphrasing the movie Tarzan. It's one of his faves, but it's been over a month since we put it in. His favorite part (click to view) is where Tarzan (after a wild baboon chase) are introducing themselves. Finn said to me "No, no, no (throat clear) I'm Jane." Clear as day, and with hand movements. It proves that he has really been paying attention, and it was so cute.

Then once we got home, I tried to put him down for a nap, but he was too miserable to sleep. I left him up there for a while, to at least play quietly in his room, and I picked up the house. As is my habit, I set some things that needed to be put away outside his door, to take care of them when he woke up. When I went back upstairs a while later, a mischevious little monkey had taken all the things I left outside his door onto his changing table, and taken all the blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals from his room and put them there instead. It was so adorable, I laughed out loud and took him downstairs for more eyedrops and a little Tarzan.

I hope this pink eye goes away soon! And I will post some more updates in teh next few days, since all my plans have been cancelled until this clears up!!!

Daddy's Videos

These videos are from Tom's phone, and too cute for me not to post-- especially the last three!


This one is of Finn 'playing puppy' for the first few seconds, and then running about like he does when Daddy's home.



This video is of Finn deciding he wanted to read a story to us at bedtime.

Here are a few of Daddy and Finn at the park. Finn has recently become fascinated with bakpacks, and hit hat, and once Daddy put them on him, he wouldn't take them off! I had to peel them off of him as he slept-- so cute. He's such a Daddy's boy.

Here is Finn showing Daddy how awesome the slides are and his overall mastery of the playground.

And here is a shorter one of Finn showing Daddy the 'BIG' slide.

'Scenes from a park'

Hard Core Playing with Daddy

Daddy the Ferris Wheel.



Daddy with a Bucket head.

Tilt a Whirl Daddy Games!

Easter Day Videos

Here is his first look at the Easter basket, and he only has one thing on his mind!



And so then he just lined up the cars all day....

Here he is asking for 'cakes', which are what he calls reese's PB cups, because they look like cupcakes!

Here is some more lining up of the cars... he's so organized (he gets that from me!)

And then the BUBBLES at Grandma Mo's house! My were these fun!

And lastly, here is Auntie Eriney, a blue car, and Grandma Mo all playing with the bubbles.

And that's all for Easter!

Easter Videos

Here are Finn and Daddy playing like men. You can tell because Finn has his shirt off.

Actually, Finn had just decided to bury Daddy with all those pillows and then climb inside with him. It was cute.

Here is Finn playing with a moses basket I bought at a garage sale for baby #2, and got out for a couple coming to my last class that delivered early and had a newborn. He mostly thought it was great to put his toys in there, but I caught him in there a few times as well.

When he saw the baby he was eager to show me and tell me what it was, and then to try to get into it's baby seat! When I asked him if he liked babies he said yes, and when I asked if he wanted mommy to have a baby, he gave a resounding NO-- and I'm pretty sure he meant it!

CHEESE! He saw the camera, so we had to have a ham session.

Caught him trying to get out! I can't believe he fits!

Super Cooking Day

Tom gets husband of the year again for cooking 30 meals in two days so I don't have to. Not only is the food WAY better for you than I would cook, but it's better for you and has much more variety. If I recall, this stash (which you can see fills almost the whole freezer) includes two types of enchiladas, chicken curry, Turkey Tetrazini, Burgundy Beef, veggie stuffed zucchini-- and a few other things, all made in doulbe batches with 3-4 meals for both of us each. I tell you, he's my hero!