Finn is 9 Months Old!

WOW!  Finn weighs 20 lb, 5 oz (50th %tile) and is 27" long (25th %tile).  His head is in the 90th %tile!  He is the smallest of all my babies!  He is wearing 12 month clothes and crawling all over the place!  As of 10/3/11 he is signing "more" during meals and as of 10/4/11 doing "so big."  His favorite things to get into are the pantry, magazines, and dishwasher!  If I leave the dishwasher open, he is trying to pull up on it, and he loves to get his hands on the oil containers in the bottom of the pantry.  He also follows me into the bathroom and loves to tear at the magazines!  His two bottom teeth are growing so much!  He is still recovering from his Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease, as evident in the picture!  Poor guy! Lucy's school had an outbreak of it, and apparently brought it home to Finn.  The girls must have already had it since it is highly contagious and they didn't get it this time around, and you only get it once in your lifetime.  I had Finn in the waiting room of the pediatrician's for his 9 month old well-check when I noticed a red bump by his mouth, then I looked at  his hands and noticed a red bump, then I whipped his socks off, and they were there too!  I quickly moved us to the "sick" side of the waiting room!  He is completely fine, you would have never known he was sick, except for the awful red welts!  You can even see them on the bottom of his feet in the picture!  Oh, and it should be called Hand, Foot, Mouth, and BUTT disease!

He has become very tempermental during meals...if he doesn't want to eat, he turns his head, or he throws his food on the ground!  His sippy cups gets thrown on the ground after 2 sips...Jaxson has a permanent post at Finn's side because everything is going on the ground these days!  I will tell him "No" firmly, but then he does a fake cry, he is so behavioral sometimes!

I think sometimes he's going to turn into a Cheerio he loves them so much!  He enjoys going on shopping trips, anywhere he can look at people!  He turns all the way around to watch!



Finn got Baptized on 10/9/11 in Baltimore on Jeff's boat the USCG Eagle with Msgr. John FitzGerald.  Jeff was his Godfather, Renee is his Godmother, but Sarah stood in as proxy.  The kids all did well on the 14 hour drive to Baltimore.  Nana and Papa are finally home, which has been nice for Kenny and I to have some breaks!

Finn's Road Trip Baptism to Baltimore...

We are off the Finn's baptism in Baltimore.  I am literally posting while Kenny is driving down I-95!  Lets hope this trip goes smoothly! We left Ormond today around 4pm and are hoping to make it to NC tonight, then Baltimore by tomorrow early afternoon.
Update: we arrived in Baltimore around 4pm, with mom and dad arriving about 20 min later. Jeff had gotten us a 3 bedroom townhouse on the base. That night we went out to Chevy's for my birthday dinner.  The next day we headed to downtown Baltimore and walked along the waterfront. There was a "Trawler Fest" and street entertainers.
The weather was gorgeous and we ate outside on the balcony at Uno's where the girls made their own pizzas. Mom, Delaney, and I shopped in a few stores for a bit while the rest of the crew relaxed and watched the little dragon boats. I wishes we had more time and full days on Baltimore to do the aquarium, museums, etc. The city had alot to offer. We then headed back to the base to drop off Dad. Mom and us Kimbles then headed back put to the mall we had been at the night before for some shopping. It ended up being a pretty decent outlet mall. We left at 8pm! Time got away from us! We brought subs back for a late dinner. The next morning Kenny went and got coffee and munchkins and we had a leisurely morning. Jeff went to pick up Sarah from the train. We met Monsignor John FitzGerald on the Eagle where we all had to wear hardhats to get from the cars to the ship. Once inside, we filled out the paperwork and went up on the deck for the ceremony. The ceremony was very cool, with the girls involved by holding candles, oil, etc. Sarah was involved as the proxy godmother, which was nice. After the ceremony, we went to eat at Friendly's and then got on the road for the trip back.



Lucy fell asleep with her head in her puke bowl...and she never used it on the whole trip!

Asleep in the puke bowl!



Sleepy Kiddos!






Delaney's First Boyfriend

I got home from work today and was hanging out with the kids before starting dinner.
Delaney: "Mom, I have to tell you something but you can't tell Daddy."
Me: "Ok, what is it?"
Delaney: "I have a boyfriend."
Me: "Who is it?"
Delaney: "I'm not telling you."
Me: "Did he ask you to be his girlfriend?"
Delaney: "Yes, in art class (which was yesterday), and then he kissed me today in music class."
Me: "Congratulations Delaney!" (being very serious)..."Did he kiss you on the lips? What did you do? Did anyone see?"
Delaney: "Yes, on the lips, and I just looked at him. Nobody saw.  Then the teacher said 'No kissing.'"
Me: "Ohhhhhh, are you happy? Why don't you want to tell Daddy?"
Delaney: "I don't know...but I like Michael. And I want to take the bus like him...how come I can't take the bus?  I don't want to get picked up anymore."
We are in trouble!!!

Update: I met Michael's mom at the Fall Festival, and apparently he is using all of his lunch money to buy Delaney snacks!  Delaney denies this, but who knows?!?!?!

Delaney is a "Teriffic Kid"

But we already knew that! "Terrific Kid" is a program run by the Kiwanis Club to recognize students that show good qualities, such as morals and integrity. She was chosen by Mrs. Gilbert and her name was announced on the morning news at school. We are so proud of her!

Finn is 8 Months Old!

Finn now weighs 19.8 lb and is 27" long.  He is now wearing 12 month clothes!  What a great month of development Finn has had!  The biggest thing is that he is now mobile!!!  He is crawling as of 9/17/11 (7 months).  He also started sitting up, first in his crib, then on his own on the floor 9/6/11.  Before he crawled, he rotated around the room from sit to belly to sit to belly!  We had to remove the hutch on his changing table recently because he is so squirmy!  The girls were never as wiggly as he is- he will push himself backwards off the table- and he still cries as soon as you lay him down for a change!  Finn now has his 2 bottom teeth in, which weren't an issue- he didn't have any side effects.  His first came in on 8/26 and second 8/28.  He got his bottom teeth in and Delaney lost her bottom teeth- she thinks she did have his first real cold, and had a few restless nights sleeping with Mommy.  As a result of the cold, he also got  his first ear infection and went on an antibiotics.  During this time, he was really drooly, and then his second tooth was all the way through, so the drool could have been related to his cold or his teeth.  Finn is now doing great with the finger foods- he loves feeding himself puffs, mum-mums, and cheerios.  He will chase them all the way down his hand!  He isn't as demanding of food, but he still will screach for his dinner!  He is waving at us and says "Haaaa" for "Hi" when he waves!  He leans in and gives big, wet, open mouth kisses when asked!  It is so cute!  He likes when we say "How big is Finn? So big!"  He doesn't move his arms up yet, but he grabs my hands to let me raise his arms for him!  So funny!  He is now recognizing pictures of people and gets so excited to see himself or his family in pictures!

Finn got his second haircut, too, and it seems like his hair is getting darker at the top.  The whole back is still light blonde.

Baby Food

I have been making Finn all of his baby food so far, and I love it!  I have bought all organic produce and made huge batches of it!  Grammy even brought us more produce from Whole Foods when she last came up.  I roast the vegetables and fruits, then puree them.  They turn out so good!  The roasting really brings out the flavors!  We then freeze the purees in ice cube trays, then pop them out and store them in freezer bags.  They will last up to 3 months in the freezer, but not with the appetite of this child...

Some of the baby food I've made:

• butternut squash 
• acorn squash
• pears
• white peaches
• peaches
• apples
• bananas
• green beans
• peas
• sweet potatoes
• nectarines
• mango
• strawberries
• eggplant
• quinoa
• white beans
• canellini beans

We are able to make some great combination with all of the flavors...he never has just plain sweet potatoes or green beans- always something added!  We use most of the fruit purees to flavor his organic whole milk yogurt for breakfast.

Finn is 7 Months Old!

Finn now weighs 19 lb!!  He is wearing 9 month clothes and size 3 diapers.  He is such a big boy!  He sits up very well on his own now and is beginning to get into the crawl position.  He is always leaning forward when he is sitting with both hands on the ground.  Finn continues to LOVE his food!  The hardest time of the day is around 4:30-5 when I am trying to get dinner going and Finn just wants his own food!  He is eating 4 cubes of baby food for lunch and dinner, and sometimes we even have to add a banana at dinner time!  He is so demanding!  As I am preparing to give him the last few bites of his dinner, I usually have to ask Kenny to get me something else quickly to give him or else he starts his screeching and doesn’t stop until he has food in his mouth! He eats 2 cubes of puree fruit to flavor his plain yogurt for breakfast which he loves.  He is pretty calm during breakfast and lunch, but he is an animal at dinner time!  He has 4 bottles per day, but doesn’t really care for them.  It’s all about the real food! His schedule most days: bottle at 7am, then breakfast, then nap, bottle at 10:30-11am, then lunch at 12, nap at 1:30-2ish, bottle at 3:30-4, dinner, then bottle before bed time at 7:30pm.  He is so good and easy!  He goes to bed awake and falls asleep easily on his own.  He uses a binky to go down with, but doesn't use it throughout the night.  He sleeps with his blue doggy cuddle blanket.  He recently had a diaper rash that was pretty bad, so when his butt got wiped, he'd cry...so now he associates that with the changing table!  He always cries the second you lay him down on it, but then is fine.  He just protests a little!


Finn JUST started waving to us, and he says “haaaaa…” (Hi) or least the hhhhh sound when he waves at us!  He has become such a Mama’s Boy- and I love it!  When I walk in from work and he sees me, he lets out a big screech and then cries until I pick him up- then he is so happy!  I don’t remember the girls being like that!  Alot of times I catch him looking at me, like just to check in to see if things are ok, especially when other people are holding him or if he is playing on the floor.  We have a special connection!  He still loves the water and splashing!  He is happy with just a basin of water in front of him.  He can sit on the top step of the pool or in a little pool on the beach and splash away!  He got his 2nd sunburn this month…yep, we are the parents of the year!  Everyone was up celebrating Kenny’s birthday and Finn fell asleep on the beach under the tent, wearing his long sleeve hooded SPF rash guard and zinc on his face.  UGH!! I feel so bad!