Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Soooo Big!!!

It has happened so fast, my "baby" is now almost a year old. He is coming into his own little being right before our eyes. We have been at my mom's house for a few days now and I have had the luxury of spending some quality time with him not just from the hours of 5-7:30 in the evening after a long day of school for him and work for me. Which, as anyone with children knows is the worst time of day for even the best baby. I am realizing that he understands and knows much more than I give him credit for. We use sign language with him and have been for many many months, we were eating out with my mom and sister yesterday and he was eating and then began signing the word "drink" which is an open and closed motion you make with your hand. I was beside myself, I gave him a drink, he drank and then made the gesture at least 3 more times throughout the meal...I cannot even begin to tell you how it feels to realize that all those months of signing were not in vain. It works, it really works...he signs eat, finished, drink, and more...its AWESOME... All of the other gestures he makes are blowing my mind, and its "modeling" at its finest. He takes shoes and lays them on his feet in an attempt to put them on, he blows kisses, waves bye bye, points the remote at the television, he blows on his food because he sees me do it, he puts telephones to his ear...

This has also reminded Michael and I to be so careful with our words and our actions! We also just taught him a game that my mom used to play with me, I am sure you may be familiar with, its called "Soooo Big" How big is Finn, Sooooo big...he is so cute when he does it...and now he does it all the time...the novelty of the game is so amusing for him. This being said, I leave you with a couple of quotes that I just love, I saved my personal favorite for last. Smooches to All!!

Mark Twain - There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

B.B. King - The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

Angela Schwindt - While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Farashaka

I have been singing Farashaka to Finn since he was born. I don't know how it happened, or why that song, but, IT WORKS!! It's like flipping a switch, he can go from hysterics per say to complete peace in a matter of seconds once the song begins. We were shopping yesterday and he was along for the ride. As you can imagine, he began to grow tired and hungry after about 2.5 hours of superb sportsmanship. We left the store, loaded him in the car, and were headed home. Finn was not happy with the current situation, being strapped down in the backseat of the car, waiting...minutes at a time for the stop light to change from red to green, stop light after stop light. So, I began to sing him the song...farashaka farashaka dor me vue...then that switch flipped his little face went from bright red and scrunched, to relaxed and almost smiling. In the meantime, I must have been having an "off" day becuase I was absolutely butchering the song. I mean I was all over place...as tone deaf as they come...Michael and I could not breathe we were laughing so hard. When I would stop singing to laugh at myself, Finn would get upset, like he wanted "more, more". Then we were belly laughing becuase he actually wanted more of the awful sounds coming from the front seat of the car, and that's what they were at that point... sounds, not melodies, or tones, just sounds.

And you know when you've been laughing that hard and you try to gain composure and your voice is all out of whack and pitchy etc...etc...so you can imagine what the song sounded like and he wanted more of it??
Needless to say it was a comforting realization for Michael and I that even the ugliest of noises coming from his mama or daddy's mouth were soothing enough to calm his little body and soul right to sleep : )

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening depending on when
you may be reading this...

This is the first official day for our family blog. We hope you will enjoy what is to come. There are only 7 more days until Christmas and we are sooooo excited. This is Finn's first Christmas and as the gifts pile up, it is so important to us that we first and foremost teach our child the true meaning for the celebration and gatherings with friends and family. I pray that GOD will guide our family in never allowing that to fall second to shopping, new toys, food, traffic, and holiday parties. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Today is also our sweet nephew, Brady Miles Anderson's very first birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADY!!