Finn's First Day of Preschool

Finn was excited and very ready for preschool. He marched into the room, slammed the gate behind him and didn't look back. 

Such a different first day with Gabe and the big kids all home. Other first days have been sad and lonely, but today was nice. Needed the time to get school supplies ready for the big kids. 

Campbell loved being able to come drop Finn off. 

Everyone came to pick him up. 

Bottle

Update: Guess didn't leave bottle at cabin as Finn found it somewhere and came running to me with it. Won't touch sippy now. 😳. At least he drank some from it where he refused before. 

First time got Finn to drink his milk out of a anything but his bottle. Accidentally left the last bottle at the cabin, so he agreed to drink it out of a sippy cup. He'll drink anything else out of a normal cup, but has refused/tantrumed for his bottle until today. Been feeling like turning a corner with him lately....he's agreeable, goes to sleep easily, sleeps all night. Basically the opposite of his first couple years when he was so so hard. 

He gets mad when called a "baby" and yells, "no me big boi!" Although he still has his paci, diapers and up until today, his bottle. 

Diapers won't be around much longer either. He's going on the potty more often than not and dry much of the day amd consistently wakes up dry (that started a while before he'd agreed to sit on potty). Since Nana firsf got him to poop on the RV potty when they were camping, he'll go occasionally.

Crown Tooth

Blake's tooth with a crown on it fell out while we were getting ice cream at Moosebirds with the Krebs family.  Seconds after this picture was taken, the tooth fell thru a crack in the deck.  

Swimming

Finn sure is growing up and getting easier. He loves the water and got brave enough this weekend to jump onto the lilypad. The final frontier of swimming! Now he can swim and play with the big kids at the cabin. Quite the change from just a few weekends ago when he went into the hot tub and was clinging to Blake shaking because he was so scared of the water. That progressed into paddling around the hot tub while I was holding him, then jumping from bench to bench.Then bobbing in the water, jumping off the pontoon and running down the dock and jumping into the water at Grammy's over the 4th. 

In othee news Finn pooped in the potty twice today. (I'm staying at the cabin tonight with Finn and Miles for the first time by myself. Gabe took Blake and Campbell back home because he has to work tomorrow.) I was doing dishes and heard a noise in the bathroom and found Finn sitting on the toilet peeing with his diaper off (dry even!). Then he turned around on his own amd said he wanted to poop and asked for a book. And he did! I think my day's diapering are coming to a close!

Blake started jumping and diving off the dock which is fun to watch.

4th

Finn just loves the water, even more than other kids. He floated with his little water wings for hours. He looked like a little bobber out there. He would greet swimmers that went by him with a big Hi! He ran and jumped off the dock more times than could count. 

The big kids loved wrestling with okder cousins on the swim mat.

We spent 3 days in the water. It was so humid and hot, no better place to be.

Anniversary

Nana & Papa have the kids camping at Jay Cooke, so Gabe & I went to the big city to get truck tires rotated, orthodontist appointment, and a romantic anniversary trip to Costco & Trader Joe's.  Had a great dinner on the patio at 6Smith and headed back home.