Happy Friday

After realizing we need to get on the stick about feeding our child, I ordered this cute little seat for Finn the other day. I love it! It is cute, and extremely easy to put together, take apart and fold up for transporting. You see here he has the concept down of trying to put this ball in his mouth. I’ve given him a few avocado pieces which he picked up but then inadvertently squeezed into guacamole. By the way, all of a sudden he’s become a great eater! Opening his mouth and leaning towards you and the spoon! It’s SO cute!

Woo hoo! Just booked my ticket to LA!! (I have noticed it is impossible to say, “I’m going to LA..” without sounding a bit pretentious..but if I say “los angeles” it sounds like I’m utterly unfamiliar with the place, which I am, but still…)

I called to confirm my hotel reservation at The Standard - and talked the guy at the front desk to give me an upgrade. WOOT! I recently happened to notice that the Sex & the City stayed at the Hollywood Standard during their I love LA episode. Groovy!!! I was so excited about the upgrading of my room, that when I got off the phone I jumped around and danced and sang loudly. Finn was so startled at this he stopped in his tracks and stared at me like What in the world???. Poor baby, I don’t think he’s ever seen him Mom so excited and happy! She’s usually a bundle of stress. Hopefully this trend will continue as the business continues to take shape!

I spoke to the landlord’s broker today who thinks that they will agree to my terms. I just got a msg from my broker saying it looks like we have a deal. Although I cannot rest til that lease is signed!!!

Next steps:

Sign lease after attorney reviews
Give architect green light to proceed with project
Get logo designed
Order business cards
Confirm phone, utilities
Finalize marketing plan & set in motion
Find bags, tags, hangers

Aunt Anne was in town so Will’s Mom invited us over for dinner Tuesday night. Finn really enjoyed chomping ion this silver spoon and sitting in Gramere’s lap while the rest of us ate. Even Aunt Annie showed up! We haven’t seen her since maybe Easter? I wondered if Finn remembered her…Annie has a new job, new hair-do, and a new car! We were all quite impressed.

We have hard wood floors downstairs. Therefore I cannot simply put my baby down to play, crawl, etc. I have to hold him or put him in some sort of container such as a swing, exersaucer, crib. I didn’t realize how huge having carpet available was until I went to my Mom’s. WOW it is amazing to just be able to put him down!! So, I’ve dragged his rug in from his room and covered with a blanket for ease of cleaning. This really makes my life like, a gazillion times easier!!! And Finn may actually learn to crawl now!

Shanna, Kim and I have been planning this evening out for about three or four weeks. We’ve all been so busy - they are the mothers of 2 year olds, and all of us have been out of town and swim lessons and everything, so we had to plan pretty far out. We went to the Rockford which I’ve really missed. I really enjoyed catching up with these women! We bounced ideas and compared notes on child-rearing, hair styles, husbands, etc. As soon as I mentioned the amount of work and lack of relaxation on our recent vacation, they just looked at each other and were like, Yep! That sounds about right.

All of a sudden I’ve felt this urge that we need to feed Finn more actual *food*. We only have been feeding him non-breastmilk items about every three days. No excuse really other than it’s just easier to give him the boob. I feel terrible because we’ve been lazy here!! He is 8 mos old and has not had any finger food yet. He’s hardly branched out from rice cereal and a few vegetables. I have done some research in the last few days on what he can have, ordered an actual highchair/booster seat so he can have a tray to feed himself.

At the library Monday for storytime. It’s like Gymboree - but free!

Finn has a bedtime of 8:30p. After talking to Dav about Tesla’s 8pm bedtime, I declared that Finn should have a new bedtime. I schedule all Finn’s other activities - naps, meals, etc, so why am I allowing him to decide to stay up til 9:30 or 10P? We put him down successfully Sat, Sun and Monday at 8:30. And he has slept til 7-7:30a. If I’d known it would be that easy to change it, I would have done months ago!!

Jeni, Dave and Henry invited us to their fab pool on Sunday. Even though we’d just returned from the beach, we were stoked to have some pool time. Esp since the ocean was way too rough for Finn. We love your pool & hanging out with you guys! Thanks for inviting us!

We had to get a few photos of Finn & Tesla before they left our house on Sunday. Aren’t they the cutest?