I took Finn’s photo on Tuesday this week (so at least there’s that) but I didn’t get to my computer until yesterday and haven’t had time to upload it until now (Thursday). Also, I forgot. Ha.

My boy threw a fit this morning while I attempted to feed him his sweet potato puree. All he wanted to do was play with the straps on his booster seat. I corrected him and the funny thing is, he understood me. At close to 7.5 months old, he understood that I was telling him not to do something and he wasn’t happy about it. Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! Is it really time to start bringing correction to my son? I am not ready for this. But I better be. Speaking of sweet potatoes, this child is simply not interested in eating. He has eaten a total of maybe 3 tablespoons, max, of the stuff since we introduced it a couple of weeks ago. I am indifferent since I am of the belief that there is no real benefit to his consumption of food at this point in his young life. But we will try again in another week or so.

Let’s see, what else is new. Well last week was kind of a cluster of snot, teething, tears, little sleep and little to no work done on my part. I did get some housework done now that I think about it, but hardly any thing else on my mountainous to do list. To make up for it, we had a fabulous long weekend that we managed to stretch all the way to Tuesday night. We relaxed, napped, took photos, played cards, watched movies and ate our way up and down Beach Drive. No joke. Now I have boatloads of photography work to attend to and I am in denial that it’s already Thursday. I suppose I will now remove myself from the internet so I can concentrate on photo editing.

P.S. I have so many new photos that I’d like to post soon. I just need to get through the next couple of weeks of work so I can devote some time to this blog.

Finn will be 7 months old tomorrow.

This past week or two I feel like Finn has gone from being a baby to a little boy. Seriously, he has been so much more active these past two weeks, especially now that he is sitting up (and getting better at it every. single. day.) Yesterday he decided that it would be fun to jump up and down in his walker, throwing himself backwards until he got stuck in a corner. That is some funny stuff right there. He is also ba-ba-ing and ga-ga-ing like crrrray-z. And biting me. (So that’s what those teeth are for!) This kid has personality to spare, though I hesitate to peg him as particular “type” just yet. I’m still undecided on that. As for Finn’s current stats, he weighed 18 pounds, 2 ounces at his 6 1/2 month checkup and measured something like 26 1/4 inches long. (Couldn’t exactly make out what the Dr. scribbled.) That seems to be on the short-ish side in my opinion but then, so are his parents. He went from being in the 90th-ish percentile to a boring ole’ average percentile, but no worries there. It will be interesting to observe his growth once he starts noshing on real food.

Here is Finn’s photo for this week. I DID take it on Tuesday but failed to get it posted in a timely fashion. My bad. For those that (or should it be who?) stalk my blog all day until I post the weekly photo (*ahem* Finn’s grandparents) my apologies. hehe. And in case you’re wondering what that sheer and crumpled mess of a fabric is, it’s another shower curtain. Awwww yiieah.

This Sunday we decided that Finn officially “sat up” by himself. He’s been trying for the past couple of weeks and he was finally able to stay balanced enough for us to consider it a legit sit up. Each day he tries it out and gets a little bit stronger. He is also very close to crawling. Well, at least I think so. He gets on his knees and rocks back and forth quite vigorously and I can tell he is wanting/trying to push up on his hands. It is really looks quite hilarious. He is such a cutie! Like for example, today, he was watching me verrrry intently as I ate some peanuts. I suppose I was making some smacking noises because when he caught my eye, he started to mimic me and make some smacking noises/chomping motions of his own. I kept pretend-chewing to see what he would do and he followed right along with me. I am often eating some sort of snack while nursing and this whole mommy eating thing is fascinating to him. And now that he is sitting in his booster seat at the table with us, he has become all the more interested. Finn is ready for food, no doubt. I have been in no hurry whatsoever because I believe that food at 6 months old isn’t a necessity. And honestly, breastfeeding is just so easy and so convenient and the most perfect form of nourishment that I haven’t really wanted to rock the boat. However, we’re going to go ahead and introduce Finn to some baby foods, one at a time, starting in a couple of weeks. Sweet potato, bananas, avocados and whole grain cereals, here we come! We will be spacing each new food out by at least 4 days so it will be a slow process. I am totally fine with that!

Finally, my camera is back from the shop. I immediately whipped it out with my newly repaired 50mm and snapped a few of this fine, 6 month old boy. More to come later. Also, I am trying to figure out how to organize my life more to make time for blogging.

Another awesomely bad weekly photo using the textile that was handiest: Finn’s play gym mat. But what’s a couple of duds in the grand scheme of things?? We have another 26 glorious weeks filled with colorful textiles and an adorable (if I do say so myself) growing baby. Yes, Finley baby is 6 months old today! (I say today because, notice, the date of this post is April 19th. Nice how I can back date my posts, right?)

I’m out of fabric and I’ve been putting off going to the fabric store to buy more so I ended up using our shower curtain for Finn’s photo this week. Oh man, is it ever awesomely bad. The shimmer, the stripes, the wrinkles. Weekly photo fail. Oh, just a heads up, I have another striped shower curtain to use for next week, unless I get to the store first. Speaking of shower curtains, I just this moment realized that I have YET another shower curtain I could have used this week which is way cooler than that blue silky mess. It’s gold. Yeah, that’s right. Gold with taupe octagons. So sounds like we’ve got weeks 26 and 27 covered.