My Once Upon a Time...

Weight: 8 lbs, 9 oz Height: 20.5 inches Health: Only one month old and Finn already had to battle his first cold. I blame the damn preschool germs that Fox brings home. The pediatrician was very concerned and almost sent us to the ER, luckily he didn’t develop a fever. It’s been a week and he is still super stuffed up, but I hope that he will get over this sooner than later.  Other than that, he has passed all of his newborn screenings and has been doing well! Nicknames: Katie came up with the nickname “Mellow Mushroom” for him, because he was so mellow for the first two weeks of his life. Nowadays, I call him grumpy face, because he’s either sleeping or grumpy (not always of course). I also call him Finny, Finnegan and “Big Honey”, which is what we called Fox and speaking of which, sometimes I call him Fox by accident…oops! Eating: Feeding Finn has been so much easier so far compared to feeding Fox four years ago. He latched right on ...

Finn is 4 weeks old! Fox on the left and Finn on the right! This pretty much sums up his life, sleep all day...with very short times in between where he is awake. I have been trying to put him on some kind of loose schedule: Eat, Awake Time, Sleep (preferably in his crib and falling asleep independently), Repeat. Of course, that doesn't always work out, because little dude loves his sleep and milk.   See what I mean, I have like a million sleeping pictures of him. Oh, and he's finally awake! Just kidding, still sleeping! He's been a little grumpy this week, probably due to him being sick and stuffed up, so whenever that is the case, baby wearing or a bath will always do the trick to calm him down. His 1 Month Update is up next, I can't believe he's already a month old! Need to find a way to slow down time! :)

I had planned to keep Fox's old nursery exactly the same for our next baby (you can check it out HERE ), but Katie wanted to change it up because she thought the tree decals in Fox's nursery were too scary (Fox was scared about them at some point).  I was two months pregnant and sick to my stomach and would've agreed to anything at that point, because I simply didn't care about anything but sleeping and not throwing up. Katie and Fox decided on a Superhero theme for Finn's nursery, I assume it was probably more Fox's idea than Katie's. But before operation Nursery could start, Katie also wanted to get the room remodeled, so she called our favorite contractor to get the job done. This remodel was relatively easy, at least compared to the previous ones we did. We replaced the floors, baseboards, added some canned lights, got new shutters and a new ceiling fan and had the room painted. And then it was finally time to decorate and unpack the 587 boxes of ...

I didn't love Fox's newborn pictures and I wish we would've chosen a different photographer, so I knew this time around I needed to hire someone I know and trust, so our very favorite photographer was the easy choice.  It was such a different experience than four years ago. You could tell she knew exactly what she was doing and had done this thousands of times. The way she handled him and kept him sound asleep through it all, the way she so effortlessly wrapped him in different blankets and posed him and how she got it all done in one short hour. We got so many pictures from here and I have to post them all, so bear with me.  My heart just absolutely bursted into a million pieces seeing my two boys together! ...