Stairway to Heaven...or maybe just the second floor.

I recently became aware that more than just my mom and Paul's parents read the blog - Hi Grammy!

For this reason, I am going to make an effort to update the blog more often. My goal is going to be at least once a week. We'll see how that goes ;)

Although Finley is not walking yet, she has mastered the art of crawling. She is quite speedy at zipping around our house and even can make it up the stairs with a little encouragement.



I know that our life will change 100% once she starts walking but I think it's a little tough for Paul, the track coach, to have a late walker. Oh well.

Finley's favorites

Now that Finley is 13 months old, she is developing quite the personality. She has quite a few things which are favorite things:

Books


Tearing up napkins

Moses's bed

Moses in general

Unfortunately, the love is not always reciprocated by Moses :(

One YEAR!

She's growing up so fast! Finley had her 12 month doctor's appointment last week and confirmed what we all knew - our little girl is growing, slowly, but growing :)


Length: 28.75" (40th%ile)
Weight: 19 pounds 3 oz (20%ile)
Head: 50%ile

Clean bill of health!

Finley goes to the Fair

Several years ago, Paul introduced me to the concept of a county fair. Even though my mom says she took me when I was a child, I have no memory of going to a fair and seeing farm animals close up before in my life. Since this was a highlight of our dating years, I wanted to make sure we introduced Finley to the fair early on.

We met a bunch of my coworkers and their children at the fair last Friday. It started with a pot belly pig race. The pigs were put into starting gates and raced around a small track.



Then they reconfigured the track and had the pigs jump into a water obstacle. It was hilarious!



Finley got to see all kinds of animals at the fair - horses, pigs, cows, goats and her favorite - rabbits.

Can't wait until next year!!!

Minnesota

Well, I'm skipping over the majority of our summer activities since keeping up with this blog is apparently not my forte. In the past few months we have gone on vacation with all the Finley's to North Carolina, spent many fun weekends with friends and family and learned to enjoy the summer with a little one crawling around.

This past weekend we traveled to Minnesota for our annual baseball trip. We drove out on Thursday and Finley was a trooper! We stopped at some touristy rest stop in Wisconsin for Finley to stretch her legs.


In Minnesota, we went to the Mall of America where I met my childhood hero, Omar Vizquel.



Finley did not go to the baseball game with us but we enjoyed our kid-free night!

Finley Crawls

A few weeks ago I received a call at work. It was Paul.

Paul: "Guess what."

Jody: "What?"

Paul: "Finley's crawling!!!"

Jody: "Yeah!!! Take a video and send it to me. Right. NOW!!"

Paul promptly got out the camera, bribed her with the elusive computer cord (Parents of the Year) and emailed me within minutes this video.

We're so proud of her! It took her a little longer than we thought to actually start crawling, although we weren't complaining because a non-mobile baby is so much easier than a mobile one!

Now that she's been mobile for two weeks, she's moving quick! She's all over the place, in Moses' food dishes, seeking out computer cords, trying to pull up on furniture - it's awesome to watch the wheels turning in that head of hers!!!

This morning she woke up especially early as I was getting ready for work (6 am). I ran upstairs thinking that I would just pop the pacifier back in her mouth and head out the door. Much to my surprise when I entered her room, Finley was crawling laps in her crib as awake as could be! I think she's getting ready for track practice :)

Easter....6 weeks late

We hosted Easter - way back in April and I just haven't quite had the time to post about it. It was great having both the Koutz's and the Rigby's here for the celebration.