Milestone #1 for this month - Finn slept in his big boy bed for the first time Saturday night, and then did it again on Sunday. Then the past few nights he's decided it's more important to sleep on Paula, his hippopotamus (which is another story for another post), and has been in his crib instead. The important thing is, he's in favor of the idea generally, and we think we'll have him more or less settled in by the time we travel back to the midwest in August, which is good since he's probably too big for the pack and play now. Here's a picture we snuck in and took while he was sleeping on the first night. Milestone #2 - we have had pee in the potty! It wasn't exactly intentional - we make him sit on his potty while he brushes his teeth after bathtime (so he doesn't pee on the floor), and the other night he made a deposit. He does like to sit on the potty (usually fully clothed) and say "Pee! Pee!" so that's fun. (We'll spare you the photo of that.)
Random movie #1 - Finn at the fountains downtown on Sunday. Hard to believe it was just about 8 months ago he could barely stumble around in them. The best part is right at the beginning.
Random movie #2 - Finn likes to ask if he can watch Sesame Street, and he does it by asking about various Muppets. Usually he'll go through a stream of 5 or 6, but when I tried to take a movie he decided it'd be more fun to jump on my stomach and get a close up look at the camera.
And here's me in San Francisco last Sunday, getting a couple things signed by Neil Gaiman, one of my favorite authors. Jonathan gets back from Pasadena in less than 48 hours. Think I can make it?
I'm all scrambly and incoherent as the end of the semester draws near (threeweeksthreeweeksthreeweeks), so I'm mostly going to just throw some photos and videos at you. Less than ideal for those of you who like to skim this at work, but trust me, the grandmas eat it up.
Birthday (for realz) On Thursday Finn opened some presents (video camera battery died - sorry, no video), went out for a pancake birthday lunch, and then played in the fountains in the park. Pancake photo: Fountain video (hooray for Thomas and Amy loaning us their camera!):
Walking in the fountains from Katie on Vimeo. He eventually went right through the middle, got thoroughly soaked, was knocked over several times, and had his diaper hanging practically around his knees. I let him go until his was clammy and starting to turn the corner from pink to purple, then dragged him off screaming to change to clean dry clothes. More photos, of course, at Flickr.
Birthday (observed) On Saturday we threw Finn a little party. At least, it sounded little when we planned it. But it was big enough to be one of those things where I tried to talk to everyone at least a little and ended up feeling like I hadn't gotten to talk to anybody - don' t you hate when that happens? Maybe it's just a function of our house being a succession of small cells and focusing my energies on trying to keep Finn from eating shoes. Anyway, Finn had a pretty good time once he got over the strangeness of actually having a bigger audience than he required, and, surprise surprise, he loves cake. He also likes new toys, but still requires a designated unwrapper (thank you, Helen) to get at them.
We didn't take any photos, but Thomas and Laura both did, and they have fancier cameras and better skillz than us anyway. I'll put up a link if they post them, and here's one of Laura's to tide you over. We also didn't take any video, but luckily Jonathan's cousin Colin spied our lonely video camera on the table and took some for us - yay Colin! I promised him extra cake to thank him for rendering that valuable service, but Jonathan keeps forgetting to take it to work, so... sorry, Colin. We ate all the banana by Sunday night anyway. This means you can watch up to ten minutes of cake time - just like being there, only harder to tune out our rambling and peer around us at the cute baby. It's not really HD, but it is suitable for full-screen viewing, so it may take a bit to load. Cake part 1 from Katie on Vimeo.
Cake part 2 from Jonathan Fortney on Vimeo. I also have videos of dancing and his new monkey face, but uploading video from the video camera actually has, like, steps, so that may not happen for a few more days. Bear with us.
Oh, and we had his 1-year checkup today! So pester Jonathan to post about that. Must sleep now.
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