Green Beans!

 I have been a busy mommy the last couple of days.  I dove into my first attempt at making baby food.  I made green beans, peas, swaccoli (sweet potato and broccoli), and apples.  It was very easy, but time consuming.  We will see if I stick with it once I go back to school.  For now, I have a good stockpile in the freezer of at least those items!

 After some stellar advice from my mommy friends, I started with green beans.  Finley gagged a little, but never spit any out intentionally.  She is doing a great job pushing the food back to her throat.

 She likes to gnaw on the spoon.

 Gotta love when they sneeze with food in their mouth... The results are disastrous!

Thank God for plastic bibs :)

Cereal...Yum, Yum!

Our pediatrician, Dr. Lyon (we LOVE her) gave us the green light to give Finley cereal and baby food at her appointment yesterday.  She has more than doubled her birth weight and can sit with support.  She looked at her lower gum line and as I suspected she noticed some swelling where Finley is starting to get her two front teeth.  She said they might pop out anytime, but could take as long as a month too.  We will keep an eye on them :)

First time having cereal...here we go....

 Her initial face she made was priceless!

 I think she likes what she actually kept in her mouth!

 LOL!  Which wasn't very much at all!

 

 

 

 Cleaning herself up :)  She had cereal again today and did an AWESOME job keeping it in her mouth.  She ate about 7 spoonfuls and was able to swallow most of it.  Hmmmm, I wonder what we will try next....

Finley 'Reads' a book :)

 Finley is finally starting to show some interest in books, much to her teacher mommy's delight :)

 Of course she has to put them in her mouth...

"Oh, Hi mommy... I was just getting to the good part"

Annual Pumpkin Farm Trip

 Cory and I have gone to Pearce's Farm Stand in Williams Bay every year for the past 4 years.  It was so much fun to take Finley for her first time.  This was right after her 4 month shots and it was REALLY windy, so getting her to look straight through the picture hole proved quite challenging :)

 Just hangin' in the pumpkin wagon.

 Whoops!  She tipped over ;)

 Daddy pumpkin, mommy pumpkin, baby pumpkin

 She looks so tiny among all of the large things around her!

Me and my girl

 

 Like I said, windy and bright for her little eyes.

We had so much fun.  Next year she will probably be walking all around the pumpkin farm on her own!

Finley helps mommy in the kitchen

 Now that Finley can sit in her high chair, I bring her in the kitchen with me when I'm cooking dinner.  She loves to watch  me and play with her toys. 

Such a big girl!  Her 4-month check-up is tomorrow.  We are hoping she can start some cereal and other solid foods soon so we can really break-in this high chair :)

4 Months Old!

Finley is four months old!!!  She is the delight of our lives.  She is growing so quickly and we swear she changes every day.  We thought she was 'talking' a lot last month... that was NOTHING compared to this month!  She talks like crazy and is also now screaming!  She also 'sings' when she wakes up in the morning and we hear it through the monitor. It really cracks us up!  She is rocking tummy time and has rolled over a ton this month too.  She did have/still has her first cold, but has never had a high fever from it and has been only somewhat irritable on some days.  She smiles at me when I suck stuff out of her nose....it must tickle.  She is wearing 6 month clothing and her hair gets longer and longer as the time passes.  We have been getting her used to her high chair and she enjoys sitting in there and being eye-level with us.  Her hand-eye coordination is getting a lot better.  She has figured out how to grab all of the hanging things on her floor gym and of course loves to put everything she grabs in her mouth.  Finally, DROOL-DROOL-DROOL!  She is a drool monster :)  I have SO enjoyed my maternity leave and feel blessed beyond words that I have gotten to spend so much time with her in her early life.  I hope the next 3.5 weeks before I go back to school go very SLLOOOOWWWWW... But, let's be honest, they will likely fly by like the first 3 weeks.  We love you little nut!
Update: Finley weighs 15 lb. 10 oz. (90th%) is 25.5 in long (90th%) and her head is in the 95th%.

Umpa Time!

Finley's Umpa came down this weekend to help fix Cory's old car so we can finally sell it.  We were excited that they got to spend some time together.