Finley is eight weeks old today.  I can’t describe the past two months as anything else but life changing.  My inspiration to blog a virtual baby book for Finley comes from two of my friends in Portland, Allison and Heather.  Both women write blogs that I follow.  I followed them through their pregnancies, the births of their children, and now I anxiously await a weekly update from both of them.  Being far from friends and family is difficult, but it is especially difficult when you have a child.  I have found blogs to be a special way to stay connected with my friends and to fall in love with their children from afar.

Finley can smile now.  This sign of affection started about two weeks ago with the occasional ‘I might be passing gas grin’ and has grown into a full on smile because ‘I think my mom and dad are either funny or ridiculous’.

Since I am starting this blog 9 months and eight weeks late we have a lot to catch up on….

Finley is a very loved little girl.  In her first two months of life she has had so many special visitors.  Most importantly, she had the opportunity to meet all of her Grandparents and her Uncle Jeff, who came all the way from Portland.

GiGi and Papa came to visit after their vacation in Spain.

Gramps and Uncle Jeff came the end of October

Grandma took time off of work and spent three weeks with us.  We had so much fun every day, we would walk the Westside Highway and then we would go to lunch!  It was so much fun to have my mom here and to see her love on Finley.  I hope that she will come back again very soon.

Finley and I have a pretty busy schedule.  On Mondays we go to our treehouse class.  Todd refers to this class as AA for moms – “Hi my name is Christina and I am a Mom”.  It is actually a great resource for me to meet neighborhood moms with children Finleys age, it is a lot of fun.  On Wednesday we go to strollercize which is an exercise class for me, with an instructor who goes around and makes sure all of the babies are sleeping soundly in their strollers.  We also have karma kids yoga and a few other activities that we will talk about soon.

This week will be our first airplane trip to Utah to meet Aunt Jenny and cousins Madeline and Ally.  We will be spending Thanksgiving with the Milligans, Finley will probably never be put down – it will be a good week!!!