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November 29, Finn is 5 months old.
Weight: 23.5lbs
Current clothing: 18mos
Cheeks seem to be getting a little smaller...
can't find my camera in all the mess, am slightly afraid I left it at security at DIA...so no pictures (last ones courtesy of other ppls cameras).
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
How to Have Thanksgiving When Everyone is Sick
Well, not everyone was sick. Travis and Finn were healthy. I was kicking the last of my Dublin cold, and the rest of the crew were all exhibiting unspeakable stomach flu symptoms. So, we all celebrated our Thanksgiving on Friday this year. The turkey got cooked on Thursday and turned into turkey noodle soup for all the sickies (Mom was pretty much recovered and did a great job with dinner). So since no one actually got to see the beautiful turkey before it got carved Mom took a picture of it for everyone to see. Travis was thrilled to get to the leftovers part of Thanksgiving dinner without doing the dinner part first. Leftovers are his favorite part.We were also hoping Finn would get to go swimming while in warm and sunny Phoenix. The
weather was warm enough the beginning of the week but the neighbor-hood pool was a bit murky. Before Travis scoped out the pool (and discovered it was too murky for wee babies) we tested out Finn's pool toy to make sure it didn't have any leaks and discovered that he loved it even without the pool to play in.
And SWINGS!
Uncle Q's house is about three houses away from the park. Swinging was a big hit.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Greats
These are two of Finn's Great Grandparents, the Moores (Maggie's Moore side, not Travis...so Maggie's paternal grandparents. If you're confused about the name you'll have to email me). I love this picture, I'm so happy they get to meet Finn. 
My maternal grandparents will get to meet him in early December, I'm excited about that, too. This was during a welcome home lunch in Denver where we ate large quantities of Mexican food at one of our favorite restaurants and many family members congregated to meet the newest arrival. Not a single one made it through the meeting without saying HOW BIG he is!
My maternal grandparents will get to meet him in early December, I'm excited about that, too. This was during a welcome home lunch in Denver where we ate large quantities of Mexican food at one of our favorite restaurants and many family members congregated to meet the newest arrival. Not a single one made it through the meeting without saying HOW BIG he is!We are now in Phoenix for a week visiting my brother for Thanksgiving. We are all well over jet lag and Master F seems to have settled well. He woke up today all giggles and smiles, the desert air seems to agree with him. Either that or Uncle Q's just really that good.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Farewell Dublin
Bye Dublin, we will miss you.
A very blurry picture of us and our 12 bags, 1 stroller, 6 carry ons, car seat + baby at the aircoach stop by Bewleys at about 7am. Travis' mom came to help us move and boy were we glad. We made quite the scene in the airport as people pointed and stared at us with our three cart loads of stuff. We, and all our stuff, made it safely to Denver. Finn flew like a champ, with only minimal fussing through 24 hours of travel from our door in Dublin to Grandma's door in Denver.
Friday, November 9, 2007
The World's Largest Pepper Mill
This week Finn met his first relative. Travis' mom Penny arrived on Tuesday morning for a visit aka helpmoveandbabysit. She's already been a huge help. It's amazing how much difference one more pair of hands makes. No matter how jet lagged they are.
Penny also is now the proud owner of The World's Largest Pepper Mill. Won at the AWCD Penny Raffle on Thursday. We pooled our money and bought a pile of tickets and 'bid' on a few items for each of us. Penny won The World's Largest Pepper Mill and a pedometer and I didn't win anything :( The World's Largest Pepper Mill is already packed, I should have gotten a picture of it. It's got to be two feet tall and is filled with a lifetime supply of peppercorns. Maybe if she repacks I'll see if I can snap a shot.
The house here is an absolute disaster area but by Monday we'll have a bit more room to move around. The movers come to take our things away for our 130ft3 shipment (not as big as it sounds) on Monday and the piles in the living room will go away and we can live our last few days here without stepping around heaps of stuff. Of course that's because we won't have any stuff. The movers will pack for us but expect that I will have sorted and set aside our stuff from the furnished apt stuff. I have two piles, one to go into storage in Denver and one of stuff that will continue on to Australia with us. Bless my family for their faith in my organizational skills, who knows what we'll actually end up with when we finally land in Oz two months from now! Meanwhile we'll keep shifting boxes so we can open and close doors and moving heaps so we can navigate the narrow pathways between living room and kitchen.
Baby weight update: 9.7kg or 21.4lbs at 20 weeks (four months+two weeks). Clothing size = some 9-12 but mostly 12-18mos. Just bought size 4 diapers. Travis jokes that we buy diaper sizes by the month age that he is. Except he really never fit into size 1.
I'm getting a bit melancholy about leaving Dublin, I will miss so many of my friends. At the same time it's also exciting to think about meeting new friends and going to a new place. With a stop at home to see family, shop at Sunflower, and to gorge on loads of Mexican food first :)
Penny also is now the proud owner of The World's Largest Pepper Mill. Won at the AWCD Penny Raffle on Thursday. We pooled our money and bought a pile of tickets and 'bid' on a few items for each of us. Penny won The World's Largest Pepper Mill and a pedometer and I didn't win anything :( The World's Largest Pepper Mill is already packed, I should have gotten a picture of it. It's got to be two feet tall and is filled with a lifetime supply of peppercorns. Maybe if she repacks I'll see if I can snap a shot.
The house here is an absolute disaster area but by Monday we'll have a bit more room to move around. The movers come to take our things away for our 130ft3 shipment (not as big as it sounds) on Monday and the piles in the living room will go away and we can live our last few days here without stepping around heaps of stuff. Of course that's because we won't have any stuff. The movers will pack for us but expect that I will have sorted and set aside our stuff from the furnished apt stuff. I have two piles, one to go into storage in Denver and one of stuff that will continue on to Australia with us. Bless my family for their faith in my organizational skills, who knows what we'll actually end up with when we finally land in Oz two months from now! Meanwhile we'll keep shifting boxes so we can open and close doors and moving heaps so we can navigate the narrow pathways between living room and kitchen.
Baby weight update: 9.7kg or 21.4lbs at 20 weeks (four months+two weeks). Clothing size = some 9-12 but mostly 12-18mos. Just bought size 4 diapers. Travis jokes that we buy diaper sizes by the month age that he is. Except he really never fit into size 1.
I'm getting a bit melancholy about leaving Dublin, I will miss so many of my friends. At the same time it's also exciting to think about meeting new friends and going to a new place. With a stop at home to see family, shop at Sunflower, and to gorge on loads of Mexican food first :)
Monday, November 5, 2007
Hi Ho it's off to Brisbane we go
Yup, the cat's out the bag! We've got the process underway for a move to Australia. Brisbane is a major city on the east coast of Australia, north of Sydney. It looks like we are headed out for another 18 month assignment, although it's not expected that we'll be in Brisbane the whole time. The remainder of our time in Australia will be spent in a different city, to be named at a later date.
So in about 10 days we'll ship out of Dublin and head back to Colorado. Then a long week in Phoenix to visit Brother Q and his SO Karen. All three of us go back to CO for a week and then Travis ships off to Oz. Finn and I will stay in CO while Travis gets his bearings and does some house hunting, and then he'll come back to CO the week before Christmas. Sometime in January we'll all head down for our permanent relocation.
We're VERY excited about the move. We've come across a number of Aussies here in Ir
eland and the feedback about Brisbane is all extremely positive. Poor Finn's going to completely miss out on spring! We'll leave fall here, get straight into winter in Colorado, and it will be summer in Australia by the time we get there. No spring for Finn this year, although he can claim going to three continents before turning 1.
eland and the feedback about Brisbane is all extremely positive. Poor Finn's going to completely miss out on spring! We'll leave fall here, get straight into winter in Colorado, and it will be summer in Australia by the time we get there. No spring for Finn this year, although he can claim going to three continents before turning 1.
