11 Months Old

Aubrey's favorite aunt requested a blog dedicated to Aubrey. Apparently I don't talk about her enough. Blame it on second child syndrome.

At 11 months old Aubrey:
~weighs about 19 lbs
~can pull herself up on just about anything
~likes to open and close drawers...making me very nervous that she's going to chop a finger off
~dislikes Aidan or Roxie anywhere near her and she lets them know by screeching like a banshee
~still only has her two bottom teeth
~is a cuddlebug with both Kyle and I, and she's overcoming her fear of other people
~has curly hair when it's wet, and very wavy hair when it's dry. I love it.
~takes two naps a day and sleeps 12-13 hours at night
~eats like a horse and is still a tiny peanut. We're not sure where it goes, but I would like to share her metabolism

Snow Much Fun

When life gives you this...
you've got to get creative. I pulled out every trick I could think of, and I still resorted to the iPad by Monday afternoon. Aidan played in the snow (technically I threw him in the snow and he thought that was fun), we made crafts, we trekked up to Grandpa's house twice, we got out the ball pit, and we read lots of books.

Ball Pit: Minute 1...Kind of fun

Ball Pit: Minute 2...Get me outta here!

Cardboard box fun

The "I haven't left the house in 48 hours" look

iPad, we love you

Inspiration

I need some. Inspiration, that is. My brain is feeling sluggish due to multiple 12 hour work days this month, not to mention two rambunctious kids. I need some inspiration for blog posts and my thoughts are turning toward "birthday month". Also known as March. Aubrey will be turning 1 and Aidan will be turning 3 ....with a mere 5 days in between their birthdays. Do I want to have a party at our house? Do I want to have a party somewhere else? Do I want to have a party at all? For the next few years the kids will be sharing a party. It's not like they've got their own sets of friends yet, and really, all little kids want to do is run around and eat cake. Hmm, what to do? Please send any inspirational ideas my way.

BTW...my sister and Reese were up for a visit last weekend. Check out her blog for pics and a recap.

Family February

Nana and Poppa were here the first weekend of February, Kali and Reese are coming up this weekend...it's Family Month!

Last weekend we braved the (not too) cold temps and headed downtown St Paul to visit the annual Winter Carnival. It was the 125th anniversary, but there were no grand spectacles or ice castles this year. Thank you poor economy. They did have some pretty awesome ice sculptures though, and we got to eat out for lunch. Always a bonus.

St Paul Winter Carnival

Ice Dog

How do you cart a baby around without a stroller? Just strap it to your back!

Ice Throne

Dam(n)

Dam/Damn is the homophone of the week at the Finn household. Ginormous ice dams can be seen on our roof and the expletive, damn, can be heard flying out of Aidan's mouth at random times. What, you ask? How could that sweet boy have ever learned such a word? Hmm, maybe you should ask Kyle. Enough said. It's probably a good thing that Aidan spent most of the time indoors as Kyle was roof-raking and chipping away at the ice dam. I'm sure he would have come back inside with a much larger vocabulary than just "dam/damn".