Teresa's Birthday Interview

Finally we were able to get T's birthday interview off our memory card. Poor thing is all worn out from almost six years of vigorous use! The memory card, not Teresa, even though she tells pretty much any one that asks her age that she is "almost six!". I keep telling her that, no, actually, she's just barely five but she says things like "well...I'm just going to tell people I'm almost six".

Ooooh, man, now that I'm reviewing all the videos I'm totally remembering how super annoyed I was by the time we finally got a full interview done. Some certain little siblings were making things pretty difficult, and then of course every time we started over T was a little less interested. We actually ended up trying two days in a row.

Here's a short clip from her actual birthday, Marc setting up the camera before the craziness started.



Aaaaaand finally, here's the official interview.



Sigh. I'm so sad seeing all that gorgeous hair that she convinced me to chop off.

I don't usually transcribe them, but she's so quiet on some of the answers this year. (And, wow, I'm so obnoxiously loud on some of the questions!)

Favorite color - red
Favorite toy - Snow White doll
Fruit - grapes
TV Show - Woody the Woodpecker
Fav thing to eat for lunch - mac and cheese
Favorite thing to wear - dresses
Game - Candyland
Fav snack - fig bars
Animal - kitty cats, because they're so cute
Favorite song - Let It Go (surprise!)
Book - her new Rarity book she got for her birthday
Best friend - stuffed kitty, human best friend - Mina
Fave Cereal - Flakes
Thing to do outside - play with Rose
Thing she takes to bed - the a fore mentioned stuffed kitty
Favorite drink - juice
Breakfast - tortillas (?)
And she wants to be a ballerina when she grows up. Guess we need to sign that girl up for some ballet lessons.

And we also did a little photo shoot of Finners wearing this adorable little suit that used to be worn by his Daddy. Seriously, this little boy. He's just the cutest thing. I really feel like people should be more appreciative of how much I restrain myself from just constantly gushing about how fabulous I think he is. Anyway, there are a lot of them, because I just think he's so cute!

Poor little dude took some concrete to the face on Saturday, so that's the scrape you see on his eye. He has successfully navigated the step down from our house to the porch more times than I can count so OF COURSE the one time I decide he doesn't need me to supervise him he biffs it.

  

Seriously, baby model material right here.

And here are some pictures of Nora, because we love her too. She's a cutie pie. 

Summer Catch Up

I feel like all I ever post about on here is Finn! The rest of us have been doing stuff, too. I went to Nashville with my Mom and sisters earlier this summer. It was so fun to be able to hang out with them! I took Finn, of course, and actually did not take many pictures! Here are a few from my phone. I know the others took more and better ones!

We visited Andrew Jackson's home, the Hermitage, went to a show at the Grand Ol' Opry, and toured downtown Nashville and the Country Music Hall of Fame. It was so much fun! Well, Finn HATED the Opry, poor dude, I got to sit out in the foyer with him for a bit of it, but other than that we had a blast.

Nora is in a very fancy stage lately. She mostly likes to wear dresses or skirts and always a pair of shoes. She is quite particular about which shoes she wants to wear with which outfit. She was quite pleased with her get up here and wanted some pictures taken. T had to photobomb them, of course :).

Teresa made a to do list for Marc one day while he was at work. It says "play with Finn and kiss Mom. Build! Beds! eat play go to bed". Marc told them when we moved to the new house he would build them some bunk beds, so that's what she means by Build! Beds!.

I think I'm addicted to taking selfies with Finn.

The girls helped me put together some little shelves from Ikea. They did a great job! I was surprised by how much they were able to do on their own. They did all the screws themselves, until they got too hard to twist, and then I finished them up. T tightened the very last screw all the way down by herself. She was so pleased that she was finally able to do one all by herself, even when it got difficult. It was a good lesson in patience for Mom, too.

  

My poor baby Finn got hand, foot, and mouth disease :(. He had a fever for a few days, but I just assumed it was teething. Then a day or so later it looked like his eczema was flaring up, since it is worst on his legs and ankles, but then they turned into these big sores and showed up on his hands too, poor babe. I don't think it was too bad in his mouth, thankfully, but he would not let me get much of a look in there. He was pretty sicky and miserable for a few days there, though.

 And it's been awhile since we've done a things they say post! I've gotten really bad at writing down the cute/funny things the girls say, so I don't have too many, but here they are:

When I pulled out Nora's birthday shirt that said "3", T said "for my birthday, I'm gonna need a shirt that says 'almost 6'".

Marc chided Nora for making a big mess with her food and she said "I'm sorry Dad, I didn't realize that was inappropriate".  We had to laugh at how old and mature she sounded.

Finn broke a piece of something he shouldn't have been chewing on and I just lightly said "Finn, you stinker!" and Nora responded "Mom! He is NOT a stinker! He is a kind and generous boy!"

Marc set the hose up to run water down the slide for the girls a few weeks ago. T asked him if he had done that when he was a little boy. He said no, and she said "Oh, because they didn't have hoses when you were a kid?".

Nora still has a few words that she doesn't say correctly, and it makes us smile. She calls cottage cheese "college cheese" and roast beef "gross beef".

Oh, and here are some videos of Finn. He woke up about 10:00 one night and was just wide awake, so I brought him downstairs to hang out. Here he is watching himself on the camera.

And trying to replicate some noises we were making:

Well, shoot, this post ended up being pretty Finn heavy, too! Maybe next time.