Finn | Week 7

Finn is seven weeks old!

Fox on the left and Finn on the right! Fox's picture was taken on 4th of July, so I obviously had to re-create it with the same backdrop for Finn's seven week picture!

Grandma Sandie came over one morning to snuggle with Finn. He was super smiley for her!

Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman!

Working on some tummy time

He usually gets a little fussy in the afternoons, so baby wearing has been amazing for him. He mostly refuses the pacifier, but on this occasion he had it for his entire nap.

Can't get enough sleepy pictures!

Fox has been such an amazing big brother. He always ask to touch and hold Baby Finn...looks like Little Brother was less than impressed.

This boy is growing way too fast already and I'm soaking in all the baby snuggles while I can.

He loves to look at the mobile over his changing table

Finn | Week 6

Finn is six weeks old!

Fox looks so much bigger to me at six weeks old compared to Finn!

I love his sleepy smiles, they make me so happy!

Oma Karin surely spoiled him with lots of cuddles while she was here!

Finn had his first playdate with Baby Ella, although they both slept right through it. He is two weeks older than her.

These pictures were taken eight months apart. It seems like a lifetime ago!

Finn had his first bottle this week, since we wanted to get him used to taking a bottle so I can leave for more than a couple of hours if I have to. Luckily he had no issues with it!

Our last night with my mom

Finn's Birth Announcement

I was finally able to send out Finn's Birth Announcement, so I wanted to share them here as well!

The Front

The Back

Finn | Week 5

Finn is 5 weeks old!

And my favorite...the weekly comparison!

Fox always asks me to put Baby Finn in his bed and while Finn was less than impressed, Fox loved it, as you can see in this picture.

Two of my favorite people!

Judge all you want...I just had to!

First visit to the Halloween store with the boys this year. Fox is nowhere closer to deciding what we'll be for Halloween and changes his mind daily. 

He asked me to take their picture in Finn's crib, so I did. Little did I know that he was expecting a lollipop in return...haha!

Grandma Rene' returned from California, so we went to visit her. The last time she'd seen Finn, he was only four days old!

My mom arrived from Germany and my boys got spoiled for two weeks!

This week, Finn did his first social smile! I snapped this picture while I was making kissing sounds to him. I love to see his little smile, it melts my heart! And that dimple kills me, so cute!

August iPhone Dump

I guess this will be a Fox photo dump from now on, since I already post all of Finn's pictures with his weekly updates.

Two days after I came home from the hospital we took the boys to Fox's favorite gymnastics place to get some of his energy out. He had a blast, although he was a little disappointed that Finn couldn't join him in the foam pit!

I totally teared up when I saw that Fox's school had put up Finn's birth announcement on their tree of life!

Dinner with the rest of the family!

Fox has been loving all things gold lately. He claims that gold gives him power, so one day we went to the craft store to get some gold paint and he has been painting everything he can get his hands on, gold ever since. 

We transformed our dining room into an office for me, complete with a wall bed, so it can double as a guest room. It took six weeks for it to get here, unfortunately it came damaged, so it took another six weeks to get another one...just in time for my mom to come visit from Germany. Fox immediately claimed the room as his though and started decorating the room and even slept in there until my mom arrived.

I laughed when I saw him one morning like this. Can't be comfortable, right?

Always happy when I pick him up from school! It's been a little bit of an adjustment to get two kids ready in the morning and handle Finn's car seat and stroller for drop off and pick ups every day, but so far it's been good and we haven't had too many car rides with a screaming baby in the back yet. When my mom was here, she would stay with Finn at home, while I dropped off Fox at school and it felt so weird, but also nice!

I've had a lot of friends visit me this month to meet Finn, check in on me and bring us meals. We didn't have to cook for two weeks because our sweet friends had set up a meal train for us, which was such a blessing! I truly have the best friends!

He was laughing so hard because Katie kept throwing a baby swaddle at him in the car.

Starting him young...he was not too thrilled about doing laundry, but oh well...!

Fox had asked Katie for a king's crown for a long time and he was so excited when the amazon delivery guy came to bring him exactly what he wished for. I took a video of him opening the box and it was the sweetest thing ever. He kept saying "For me? For me? I can't believe it! I always wanted this! I really can't believe it!"

When a German comes to Arizona, they've been missing the sun so much that they sit in 110 degrees heat to soak it up!

What we've been doing lately...Candyland all day, every day!