The Box

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Green is definitely Finn's color!



Last night Chelsea and I threw a surprise birthday party for Michael and James. Finn was supposed to be in bed before the party started, but he was too excited to sleep. He spent most of the party playing in the floor with Macey. Watching Finn interact with Macey has given me a good idea of how he will behave as a preschooler. Even at 7 months old Finn did not want to share his toys. Everything that Macey tried to play with Finn would attempt to take away.

Today Michael's birthday present arrived in the mail. It was a desktop computer and it came in a big box. Finn loved in the box. Yesterday was a hard day. Finn is teething pretty badly so he is very restless and very fussy. We haven't been able to put him down all day. When we finally got him comfortable enough to put him in the floor to play, we weren't able to walk away. He was alright as long as we were doing nothing other than looking directly at him within arms reach. After several hours of fussing I put Finn in the big bathtub which helped to calm him down. After Finn's bath he watched a few minutes of the "Secret of Nihm" and then he went to sleep. I was exhausted by 9:00. I don't know what it is about a fussy baby that makes me so tired.

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