Eleven months. My sweet boy is already 11 months! His personality is becoming more evident: sweet, funny, insistent, determined, and losing a bit of cuddliness (but still cuddly when I time it right). We find him chuckling to himself often and I can get a smile with just a small tilt of my head. He's…
Time for Motherhood: Finn at Eight Months
My dearest Finley James turned 8 months old. 8 months! With each passing month, we get a little bit further from the day of his birth when he burst into our lives. I grieve the days where I could hold him with one hand and he was just so new to the world. On the…
Time for Motherhood: Finn at 7 Months
Finn is now a full seven months. Ah sweet boy, you keep growing and growing... Finn now has two bottom teeth and four teeth on the top growing in...plus molars... He's still not sleeping through the night, but I've accepted it as the normal... He loves making noises - grunts, groans, Velociraptor cries, loud exclamations-…
Time for Motherhood: Finn at Six Months
Finn is now six months. Six months! In the beginning, I thought by six months I'd be an exceptional parent and pretty much know everything there is to know. Now I know the truth- not a chance. I may never know. We had our first Christmas together. It was a strange one with ice, illnesses,…
Time for Motherhood: Finn at Five Months
Finn is now five months old. He's a happy and often mellow little baby boy. He doesn't sleep a lot but uses energy to roll from his back to his front and vice versa. Finn has celebrated his first Thanksgiving at Grandma Ann's house. His favorite toys are his fingers, his Sophie teether, and his…
Time for Gratitude: November 30th, 2017
I'm grateful for the gift of November. It seems strange to write as it's a month I dread due to the dark days - but I'm grateful for the gift I have given myself for the last five plus years- the gift of daily gratitude during the month. It sets me up for the next year…
Time for Gratitude: November 28th, 2017
This morning I'm grateful for a little Finn man who can now roll from back to front and front to back. Life is going by so quickly and I'm just so grateful that I am remembering to savor every milestone and every moment. I hope I can remember these moments in the years ahead. Each…
Time for Gratitude: November 19th, 2017
Today I'm grateful for sweet smiles after a long day of baby fussy-ness. Poor Finn is either teething, uncomfortable, angry about nothing, or mad that the holidays are approaching so fast. He was inconsolable today which is very, very unlike him. So after a long day of crying myself- I was so grateful for this…
Time for Motherhood: Finn at Four Months
In month four, Finn slept through the night for the first time (and last time thus far).... He rolled from his belly to his back.... He had his first belly laugh... Saw his first soccer game in the rain... Celebrated his first Halloween as Superman... Had his first cold (not so fun).... And lit up…
Time for Gratitude: November 7th, 2017
One of the biggest surprises for me after having a child is the necessary evilness of breast pumping . It has taken over my life. I pump at least six times a day for at least twenty minutes each. This means at the very least, I am hooked up to a tiny machine for two…
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