What a difference a year makes!!

Santa came and brought Finn a super cute Baby Baby Grand Piano!!! He also got a great swing for outside but of course I can't get the pic to upload but he loves both!!!

So as soon as Christmas was over it was on to Finnemore's first birthday! 12/30

What a wonderful fun day. We had a family lunch complete with a smash cake just for the birthday man himself. Let's just say he must have thought he was at the spa with a mud bath because he smeared greasy icing from top of his head to the bottom of his feet!!!! Loving every minute of it and he will now not need any lotion for a week!!!!

What a difference a year makes!!!

1. 35 and raining and this year 70 and crystal blue skies

2. In the bed at about 9pm and well we won't even say what time we called it a night this year!!!

3. No supper at all and The most fantastic beef tenderloin, lobster, twice baked casserole, salad and lots of Champagne!!!!

4. Finnemore was hours old a very sick angel fighting for his life and this year he is NOW 1 YEAR OLD and FULL of LIFE and ENERGY!!!

BRING ON 2012!!!!

Forgive the grey box I have no clue why this happens. But anyway having a cheese stick in his halloween costume. He loves these but can't eat them yet obviously b/c he only has 2 teeth! But he has full intentions of eating them one day!

Playing in his puffs at Lady's! You can tell from the blur of the pic he thought this was hilariously fun and couldn't stop laughing at the crunchy noise they made. Only at your grandmothers can you dump a box of cereal on the floor and play in it. He would pull them all out and she would collect them all up put them back in the box and they would do it all over again! Finally we just let him entertain the idea of eating them. And yes on the floor but it was clean and when your trying to get a kid to eat it, if the floor is clean then proceed! We were just thrilled he was interested in them!

I didn't want to jinx us so I have delayed posting but Finn has decided he likes food!!! YAY!!! We had just talked to the dr and he said we needed to see a feeding specialist. Then days later Finn got a high fever and was really sick for several days. Like 105 fever off and on for 4 days sick! Well would you know when he got over it he started eating like a big boy! Wierdest thing ever but it totally happened! We are very excited and he is getting fatter by the day! :) These pics are just with snack foods but he likes putting them in his mouth so they count!!! I have pics of him eating his daily cereal, oatmeal and fruits and veggies but they are probably only cute to his Mama b/c he is covered head to toe in his food. He loves to eat a bite and then explore what is going in his mouth. So I have learned to make about twice as much as I think he will actually want to eat!

Ah Vacation!

Well we are back! Rested and rejuvinated after a week in Costa Rica. Great fun with even better friends Kelley, Billy, Beth and Mike joined us. Don't think I have had that much fun in a long long time!

The highlight of the whole trip would have to be ziplining upside down and then Me catching an about 100lb Sailfish and CAJ catching a Bonita that might have been a foot long! BAHAHAHA! But he was a good sport he really went because I wanted to. It was on my Bucket List to catch one. However my feelings were hurt when I found out they are catch and release b/c I have no clue where it was going but I was totally mounting it on the wall somewhere. Just so you know all these mounts you see... they are FAKE they just make one to scale from a picture. Booo I'm not doing that. You can't tell from the picture but their sails are very pretty and irredescenty(sp?) blue!!! Oh and the final Highlight was a sweet card that Finn put on our bed with his little handprint painted inside!!!! I was amazed how big his hand has gotten.
We were very very lucky Lady, MeMe, and Alice all pitched in and kept the Finn Man. May never happen again but that's ok b/c I cherrished every minute just incase I am house bound from now on!

Football, Football, and More Football!

Apparently Caroline immediately questioned why in the world she bought huge WHITE glasses and Mom turned and pointed to the AU!!!! Can you say over the top! Hilarious!!!

Thanks Uncle Pete for the perfect Bulldog suit!!!

I guess they were playing Cheerleader! Who knows!!!

Pretty Dang Cute if I may say so myself!!!

Like Father Like Son! Got the laptop going!!!!

Football, Football, and More Football!!!!

It's that time of year and we are loving it! We have the best tickets for all the games and it's right here on our back deck! It's a gaurantee that we have our favorite tailgate foods and the Egg going every Saturday by lunch! Well even a little earlier the first several weeks, Auburn had those crack of dawn games! Yes I survived the loss against Auburn. Now if Bama loses someone else may not make it! He is counting on a trip to New Orleans first of January! WE SHALL SEE!!! I don't cheer against them I just like football in general so this divided house stays pretty cheerful no matter. We have been changing Finn's outfits for each game. But his cutest outfit of all was his Andy Bulldog outfit my Mom pulled out of the closet from when Uncle Pete was a lil fella!!!! Last weekend was Homecoming and I took him to the parade thinking he would be interested in the loud sirenes and the band but of course he fell asleep as it was about to start.

Oh and last weekend for homecoming they convinced me to participate in the Almuni Band at Half time! LOL!!! Sorry but no pictures of that you had to catch it when it was happening if you wanted that laugh!!!

Last Saturday was extra fun, Mom and Caroline came over b/c Dad was out of town and we had tons of fun. For those that haven't ever watched Auburn Football with my Mom, lets just say she gets way Crunk about it and the whole neighborhood can hear her cheering!(I guess anyone that had all 4 kids go to Auburn would be!) Plus she and Caroline together is always hilarious!!!

Now if the weather will just cool a touch the weekends at our house would be 100% perfecto!!
Happy Fall to You All!!!

Dr. Sugg

ok this is my post from last week it just took me a while to want to post it.

Well went to see Dr. Sugg today in Dothan.
He really didn't have anything new to say. He just said that Finn definetly has Cortical Blindness. Which means his eyes are good and healthy. However the connection in the brain is not. :( I knew deep down this is what he was going to say but you know the feeling you have when you left half a test blank and you go to get it back with fingers crossed she read imaginary answers when she graded yours! That's how I felt. I had fingers crossed, that maybe he had just learned something new the night b/f that I had not heard about yet! But he had not.

There is a good and bad side to it.

Good side is that like everything else in Finnemore's life it will take time to see the final result, he had a HUGE injury that is going to take lots of time and therapy to heal. So we will always have HOPE that, that part of his brain just hasn't recovered Yet! Or that some Genius will invent a electronic device like they have for hearing!!! But the bad side is that there isn't glasses, surgery etc that can fix it today.

I am encouraged b/c his eyes have improved in that they no longer move in crazy ways(there is a medical term for this but I can't remember). They used to bounce or flicker side to side really fast, and roll way up and down. He also has sensativity to light. Which they say means he knows day from night.

Deep down Yes of course I want him to see but I just don't let myself think about it and we just work everyday assuming that he is still healing and tomorrow may be the day. And for now I have big plans to get the cool dude a piano and plan for him to be a Big time music artist and take care of his Momma and Daddy one day! CAJ is going to drive his bus and I am going to be incharge of his wardrobe! We have to keep it light around here to keep ourselves positive!

BUT in all seriousness just please keep praying that his vision will improve, I would love nothing more than for to react to something in front of him, especially Me or his Daddy.

On the Road again... to the ENT this time!

Well just a couple of weeks ago we had our last appt in Bham for the year! We don't go back to til January! Or should I say WE THOUGHT we had our last appt!


We all know it's always something!!!! This time just common ole stuff...possible tubes for his ears. But they are extra important for Finn.


Sunday afternoon Finn and I made our way back up the interstate AGAIN b/c his appt was at 8:15. The upside of this was we got to stay with Uncle RHT and Aunt Blakely!!! oh and our Furry cousin Harley and he and Finn are big buddies! His playful bark makes Finn crack up!!! And we stopped in Prattville for a fun lunch with Aunt Lisa and Uncle Vernon and then a little visit to Target! So anyway after weeks of ear infections, Dr. E decided we better go on to the ENT and see about getting tubes. Finn's ears are extra important due to his vision or should I say lack of! So we didn't want to get behind on this, but the Dr says we are okay for now. There is definetly reason to put tubes in but we can also still wait. So we will go back to Dr.E to see if there is still fluid in 6 weeks and if so then we will do the tubes. He said right now the risk for damaging his ears was no greater with the constant infections or the surgery so we opted to see if we can tough it out to avoid anestesia again.


Stay tuned for our next Dr appt which is tomorrow in Dothan with the Opthamologist. Say a prayer if you have time that he tells us something encouraging!!!!

Shopping like a big boy!

Today we had to make our Wal Mart run and I wasn't getting a ton so I thought I would try Finn in the buggy so if it didn't work I could just carry him. But he did Great!!! Like everything we wondered if he would ever be able to ride in the buggy without his carrier. It actually was pretty good excerise ontop of it all, so that's how he will cruise from now on when we shop. 1 step closer to getting him out of that insainly heavy bucket. I am sad to be leaving the carrier behind b/c he is getting so big so fast. But I am just not a "He-Woman" and can't carry him in it much longer!

This was a big day for us and I am so proud of the Finn Man! He gets stronger and more cordinated every day!!!!