The one where Finn turns six months

I seriously can't believe that our baby Finn is six months old already. I feel like I just had him yesterday. We took him in for his six month check up last week, a few days after Nora had her 3-year-old check up.

 Oh, Nora. She is a character for sure. Of course the best part of her checkup was when I got to chase a little hospital-gowned Nora through the halls of the doctors office. Annoyed as I was by her rascally-ness, it was pretty hilarious seeing her little Jake underwear clad bum peeking out of the slit in her gown as she raced away from me. She is still a slight little thing, only 30 pounds and 36 inches. She doesn't even break the 40th percentile for height.

We are working on giving up the pacifiers. I read a suggestion online to stitch them to blankets, because theoretically your child wouldn't be wanting to walk around with a blanket hanging off their face all day. So, I got her two favourite pacis and attached them to some of her little lovey/blanket/things.

Yeah, not so much.

 Actually, they are finally starting to work. She finds them a bit too cumbersome to drag them around everywhere she goes. It's hard to really play when your hands are that full, so they are starting to stay home more often. That is a stuffed dragon blanket thingy that Auntie Fiona sent when N was born. It had gotten quite grungy after a few days of being dragged around, so I sent it through the washer and dryer. Nora was so impressed by how nice and fluffy it was when it came out that she asks to wash it pretty much every day now. 

Finn is just a delight. He is a giant, delightful baby. He is 29 and 3/4 inches tall. Poor Nora is only about 6 inches taller than him! He's still off the charts for height, but his weight dropped again down to the 60th-ish percentile. On par with the rest of our babies, they just seem to do that around 6 months.

Sometimes having two big sisters is awesome, because they set up a lovely circle of toys for you to play with...

And sometimes it's not so awesome, because they decorate you with too much girly stuff...

All three of these kiddos are pretty silly. Teresa and Nora are always asking me to take pictures of them with random toys, doing silly poses. (Pretty much all of these are from my phone or iPad, so the quality isn't awesome).

Finn Firsts

Finn has just been growing and changing like crazy these past few weeks.  I feel like one day he would be on his tummy and just be stuck there, and then all of a sudden he could move! Here are some videos. Poor fellow, even when he doesn't have a mean mom moving his toys just out of his reach he still has to chase them all over. He will get within reach of his toy and then accidentally push it away when he reaches his hands for it.

Finn from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.


Foof from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

Shortly after he turned five months we let him have his first "real food". He had been swiping at our food for awhile if we held him while we ate, and seemed pretty eager to start attempting it himself. He got some mashed up avocado and, while his faces would suggest otherwise, he seemed to like it. At least, he kept coming back for more, and by the end was grabbing the spoon to help shove it in his mouth.

We had to laugh when he started nomming the bits that had gotten on his foot.

And, of course, T and Nora wanted in on the action too.

He will usually get a little bit of baby cereal or some avocado or banana about once a day now. Or every other day. He is probably not actually ingesting a whole lot of it, but he sure enjoys practicing.