oof.

Unbelievably busy week.
Sick child.
No blog posts.
Back next week.

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Just stopping in on this unbelievably beautiful day to share this.

Because it's exactly how I feel in someone else's words.

Hope you're all having a simply scrumptious weekend!

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

carnage.

sometimes, i'm really good at being at the ready to capture significant moments in finn's life.

sometimes i'm not.

and it's times like those when i'm very happy to have friends who whip out their ipads to photograph...

drum roll please.......

finn's first chocolate chip cookie: the aftermath.

i mean, come on.
just look at those eyes.

doing the wave.

i just watched finn learn how to wave.

how crazy is that? he just learned how to do this thing all of a sudden, after watching people wave at him, today he just started doing it on his own. he's obviously quite pleased with himself that he can make people waggle their arms enthusiastically at him by doing it himself.

man, it's just so trippy watching all these firsts, knowing that it's all just the beginning, over and over again.

(if my son has waved to you before now, please let me live in my little denial that i saw it happen first).

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

punk

so we had a little baby food crisis last week.

first off, let me say that i was NOT going to feed my child packaged baby food. heck no. instead, i spent time steaming, pureeing and freezing butternut, apple, spinach, pear, sweet potato...the list goes on.
when i offered him those items in the first place, he was a fan, so i froze them, feeling very proud and giving myself a little pat on the back.

then finn stopped eating all the food i so lovingly put away for him.

so i decided i'd just puree up whatever we were eating and give that to him. the same thing happened. he ate it up for about a week or two, then nothing.

THEN we went over to a friend's house who had some of the happy baby packets, and finn tried a spinach-mango-pear blend that he LOVED. so finn's grammie went over to the mainland and picked up a selection, all of which he ate with gusto. it seemed like we had found a winner, so i ordered a bunch more on line...when they still hadn't arrived a week later, and we were back to table food - hummus, yogurt, etc.

when the packets finally arrived, he practically inhaled one, giving me a huge sigh of relief. but evidently, that was a fluke because he hasn't eaten more than two or three bites since and is getting VERY well-versed in the joys of blowing raspberries with a mouth full of pureed food of various colors. we've tried loads of different varieties, but just can't get him interested again. of course, this cloud does have a silver lining - he's a pretty cute kid in general, but man - when he wrinkles his nose in disgust at something, it is pretty friggin adorable.

so i guess this is just another lesson - there is no predicting the whims of mr. finnley james. we just have to go with the flow. it is encouraging, though, that he digs guacamole, hummus, quinoa chili, scrambled eggs, and (as was evidenced  last night) greek orzo salad with feta and fermented garlic.

what a character.