Finley Milligan: Happy New Year

It appears the last time I blogged was when Finley took her first steps. A lot has changed over the past six weeks, as of January 1^st Finley has started running!

A quick recap of the holidays: We went to Park City for Thanksgiving and spent the weekend with Gigi, Papa and Maggie. Finley loves Maggie and learned the word dog over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I stayed an extra week with Finley so that she could spend a week with Grandma Jane as well. It was so nice for Finley to be with all of her grandparents in November.

When we arrived home from Park City things went downhill. Finley started with a cough which turned into croup which then became bronchitis and resulted in a day spent in the emergency room. Just when we though she was getting better from bronchitis I noticed a small rash on her chest so I took her back into the doctor on a Saturday morning. After being seen by all three doctors on staff they determined that she had shingles! What?!?! Infants don’t get shingles, well apparently one in five thousand do, from the chicken pox vaccination. After a very stressful two weeks getting Finley healthy we were able to spend Christmas in St. George with the Milligan Family.

Finley loves to play at home in her play area. She can be amused for hours stacking and sorting things. Yesterday she started lining things up and then moving them to different rooms and lining them up again. I love that I am home to see her start to develop into a little person and I love watching her do things deliberately. One darling thing that she does is after she has a bath and her jammies are on we usually let her come downstairs to play for a bit. When she gets downstairs she will take off her socks and then take each one individually and place it on the stairs beyond the gate. It like she doesn’t want them on, but at the same time she doesn’t want to lose them! Finley is very talkative. She seems to be getting a new word almost every day. Right now a few of her favorite words are dog, cheese, juice, more (more more more more all day long), turtle, night night, bye bye, and hi. She loves to work on her sounds and will try to copy pretty much anything that I say to her.

She is still a champion sleeper. She asks to go down for her naps and to bed at night. She will start sucking her thumb and go to the stairs and say night night and then ask for dog, her favorite stuffed animal that she sleeps with. I still have her on 2 naps a day just because she seems to want them.

We are heading to Mexico next week with the Brennick Family. I know that Finley is going to love being around her cousins!