Finn's 10 month birthday!

In honor of Finn turning 10 months old today, here are two quick videos that we recently recorded. 

last night in the tub...

and today at lunch...

happy 10 months, finn!

today and yesterday

After church on Sunday, we can home and some neighbors had put up Easter decorations.  Eli wanted his own decorations, so I hopped online, found a simple (at least I thought at the time) craft, and off to Michael's we went.   This is Eli with the finished product: 

our Easter Egg Wreath.

 Finn ate black beans, corn, cheerios and some spinach/apple baby food for dinner.  

Who is this baby that loves southwestern cuisine???

 This morning our boys were color-coordinated.  Finn's a little unsure right here. 

 He looks a little better here, maybe, kind of...

Eli took this picture of Finn and me tonight all by himself.  It's not the best of me, but look to the right - that baby's awfully cute. 

Spring Has Sprung

It's hot here in Charlotte.  So hot that we finally caved and turned our air on last night.  I couldn't take it anymore - our thermostat downstairs was at 81 degrees at 7 last night and we could probably add 10 degrees to the temperature upstairs.  It's been in the 80's for the past few weeks - all the trees are out, daffodils are already past their prime and evenings are getting late since it's so warm and light and we play outside until well past a reasonable hour.

Part of our new spring routine is soccer.  Eli is in a preschool soccer clinic at the Y and had his first "practice" last Saturday.  It was really cute and he did a good job (although by the end he was very tired - mission accomplished).  Here he is sporting his soccer stance:

Along with being SO active, Eli is showing interest in reading and likes to read books by himself.  His favorite new phrase is "I can do it!"  It's nice that he wants to be so independent, but it's also a pain sometimes, like when he tries to pour himself milk or empty the dishwasher...

Finn still is not crawling, but he's getting there.  He's got the arms down, now he just needs to get the legs going at the same time.  He's gotten picky with food - all he wants to eat is our food - no baby food.  He sometimes refuses to eat with a spoon, so he's getting bits of what we have for lunch or dinner. Yesterday it was cheese, chicken and broccoli.

"Hi.  I'm so cute!"

"I mean, seriously, look at me."

This last picture is from two nights ago.  The boys are sitting in the "jammy spot".  It's our hallway upstairs, but we designated this space as the jammy spot because it's the place where they put their pajamas on every night after a bath.  It's really just a ploy to get Eli to cooperate at bedtime.  He's always eager to run to the jammy spot because it turns into the goofy spot and he climbs all over Kevin, but it's cute and they play and Eli makes Finn laugh.  A nice ending to our hectic days.

what's new....

Eli's been helping Kevin with guy stuff, like fixing the oven element

Eli got a special lunch at Chick-Fil-A after his first dentist appointment

Finn is desperate to crawl.  He can move backwards, but not forwards...yet.

Eli likes to go to Target just to play with their toys.  We're signing him up for spring soccer today.

Both boys take a bath together every night.  They love it.

Eli is silly...always, always, always. 

More from Finn...

Today Kevin, Finn and I went to lunch at Jason's Deli.  It's nothing spectacular - just a deli with a salad bar that's loud to drown out the sound of a screaming kid or crying baby.  That's really why we went there, we knew that if Finn fussed no one would hear him. 

On the contrary, Finn had a lovely lunch that was a bit of a surprise to us.  He ate the strawberry yogurt that I brought for him, then I decided to try giving him some roasted red pepper humus and he loved it!  The salad bar includes ice cream or frozen yogurt - whatever it is, Finn loved it, too.  Here he is enjoying his treat:

happy boy on a happy friday ~ enjoy!

Pizza Party

In an effort to expand Eli's palate beyond processed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, we've been requiring (codeword for forcing) him to try new foods.  Here's what he's tried the past few weeks:

• Spaghetti - Likes it!
• Rice - Hates it! [He spit it out and said, "get these bugs out of my mouth"!]  :)
• Penne - Likes it!
• Chicken - Only likes it if it's a chicken nugget from Chick-fil-a or (gulp) McDonald's (which we never go to)
• Mushrooms - Hates it!
• Yogurt - Likes it!
• Pizza - Loves it!

We've gotten pizza at a restaurant before with him, but the other night we made it at home and let Eli make his own little pizza for dinner.  Here's the final product...

And yes, he ate it. 

PS - please ignore our messy counters.