14 months old

What?! Monthly update time again?!  Geez that went fast!
But here you go...
We are all off to the Isle of Man tomorrow and I haven't packed yet, so this might be a short one... but I wanted to get it out before we left.

First up, side by side pics:

13 months old

14 months old

So, what have we been up to?  Well, Finn had his first (of many, I'm sure) bout of pink eye (conjunctivitis).

It.
Was.
Horrible.

Not only disgusting - but having to put all those drops in his eyes?  Torture.
All better now though.
Finn also got a vomiting stomach bug.  This was also disgusting.  There's nothing quite like clutching a puking kid close to you because you know that it will be easier to wash your clothes than the carpet.  Oh, the glories of motherhood.
All better now though.

We've talked to lots of family over Thanksgiving.  A couple times I tried to change Finn while we talked - but he preferred the 'talking' over the 'changing.'

James brought him home some huge cardboard boxes to play in - the boy does like his boxes!  It was an awful lot of fun... but it took up most of our living room! So that didn't last more than a couple days before I threw them out (James says I'm a mean mother).

Speaking of boxes- as promised, I managed to get a picture of him and a tiny box (or basket as the case may be)!  So funny!

And we've been very arty this month.  Finn helped us to design some original one-of-a-kind Christmas cards:

And as a reward for being extra Christmasy he got to have his first ever Mince Pie!

We also attempted a couple projects.  If you've ever heard of Pinterest, it is an excellent thing on the internet.  It is basically a place for inspiration and projects and instructions and recipes - that sort of thing.  I make a lot of projects off of pinterest, I love it.  Some of them work out really well... some of them do not!  I tried a couple recently that most certainly did not work out!

One of them was this idea:

I love the idea - do a footprint each year on their birthday to see how they grow and have an ongoing artwork.  We did a nice one on canvas when he was born,

so it was time to do the next one.  This was the result:

Turns out a one year old is much harder to get a footprint of then a one day old.  We gave up - that particular artwork is not happening.

Move on to inspiration number two.  This lovely photo:

I got everything all set up and was ready to take gorgeous photos of Finn playing with Christmas lights.  He had other ideas.  He wanted to eat them.

So that didn't work either.

Luckily there was one crafty thing that DID work though.  I made Finn a lovely hat to match his cousins.  It worked out just fine and he seems to like it!

Happy Christmas everyone!