Toys

Finn is SUPER into his toys. Totally focused and concentrated, grasping one, reaching to grab another, even smacking them into each other. He gets frustrated that he can't reach them and it looks like he is trying to levitate himself over to them. Oliver was never that focused on toys this small, so it's fun to see the start of Finn's unique personality. He's still really focused on Oliver as well, watches him intently whenever he can. Finn has taken up the tradition of not being interested in nursing if there is anything else more interesting happening. He doesn't get to do long naps the way Oliver did, but likely that's because he has Oliver constantly talking and leaping and needing Mama's attention so Mama doesn't have the time to get Finn fully out. He's starting to get heavy, wearing out our arms, he's fitting 6-9 month stuff but he's only 3 months, he doesn't ever spit up so he must just be packing on the breast milk bulk.

Grampa Howard has given Finn his Jewish name: Uriel Avshalom. It's neat to have that piece of his heritage. He'll have to grow some teeth before he can sample some Paella and get the true flavor of his Spanish Heritage.

March

My heart operation went very smoothly. Finn is getting really good at grabbing his toys. He seems to like standing up. Still drooling a ton, we had to dig out some bibs. He puts the giraffe's feet in his mouth often, I think the teeth may be coming soon. More little laughs. He is starting to get distracted when he nurses, if his brother is talking he'll stop to look around. He's often strapped onto mama asleep when I come home, but wakes up and looks for me at the sound of my voice.

Oliver is doing great. Loving preschool. He's picking up letters pretty quickly all of a sudden. He did fine with the upheaval of the heart stuff. Probably jinx ourselves but he's been doing really well with sleeping through the night and we've started working on going to sleep more autonomously. We are pleased to see that our gentle approach has worked out.

So everything's going well. Now that we're passed the operation thing we have the mental energy to pay attention to big picture stuff again.

Hope all of you are doing well.

Update

Finn got a vaccine the other day and REALLY didn't like it. Very primal the way the little ones scream. But he's alright now. But we're thinking we're going to let them poke him twice next time to get it over with faster. We're wondering how we're gonna get any more shots into Oliver now that he's big enough to understand what's coming. Finn's almost able to sit up, when he's propped up he lists to the side like a drunk til he falls over, but very slowly. He rolled over the other day, from his front to his back. Lots of sucking, sucking on his hand, sucking on his blanket. He's grabbing the toys hanging down from his bouncy seat also. He's been a little fussy about nursing, we got him a pacifier in case like Oliver he wants to suck without drinking, but he hasn't shown interest.

Oliver is doing well, he's started preschool and is loving it, super excited to go every day. He seems to be going through a testing phase. When he gets upset he says "I want to be mean" and tries to hit us, or throw things at us. It's a little worrisome but Amanda went through it a month ago so we are thinking it's a phase. Trying to figure out the best way to help him through it.

I have the stupid heart procedur next week. Not looking forwards to it. Oh well.

Francesca got an Opinion piece published in the local paper, yay!