Birthday

Finn is 1! We were down in San Diego and he got his first taste of cake at Grandma's insistence. Did great on the traveling. Finn and Oliver seem to be having more and more fun together, cracking each other up. Still hard for Oliver when we play the walking game, when Francesca and I sit apart from each other so that Finn can practice walking between us. All of a sudden Finn has gotten walking. He's not totally independent, but really it's all in his head. He was toddling a few steps from one of us to the other, and diving for our hands, but now he's slowed to down to a more walking pace. If I take my hands away in the middle of a room he squats down immediately. Interesting how cautious he is. But he is cruising all over the house solo now using the push car as a walker. Francesca says he's also got crawling figured out, and can travel around that way too (although he did still face plant yesterday.) So really the only thing holding him back is caution, which he'll probably put away within a week. He's been sick and has a really hoarse voice. Other morning he woke up and said "hello" as he lay there looking at us.