Finn Henry

Oh No, I Forgot To Chase That Mouse by MarkOMeara

Grandy gave Finn some facepaint which he has been dying to use. Yesterday I gave in and did a simple cat face for him which he was very impressed by.

I was too slack to clean his face before bed so this morning he is a Very Smudgy Pusscat.

DSC_1947.jpg by dogseat

“Mum and Dad, I do like this game but I don’t like to see running and shouting inside.”

- while we were all playing The Singing Game

When I saw Finn at 5am, sitting in the loungeroom, looking fine and talking very coherently, I figured he was probably recovered from his illness. Had I been capable of putting a proper sentence together when I went back to bed I’d have passed this onto Mark.

As it turned out Mark made the same assessment when he got up to view the ‘big mess’ Finn had made of his clothes and decided that the boy could go to childcare for his last day before 3 weeks off. We’ll pick him up at 3pm so it’s a shortish day anyway.

Kids are made of rubber. They just bounce back.

Mark saw Zelda running away from Finn and asked him if he had chased the cat.

“No,” he said “I just pushed the cat and he walked away”

He’ll make a politician yet.

One of Finn’s favourite games - and one of my greatest annoyances - is chasing the cats around the house. I can’t really blame him because they so obligingly run when he approaches them, but I do wish he wouldn’t do it.

The other day I found Finn in our bedroom, looking cheeky and standing beside our bed which having previously hosted Cosmo, was now vacant. I asked him what he was doing (although I kind of knew the answer) and he told me that he’d said “Boo” to the cat and the cat had gone under the bed. Of course, I told him that he shouldn’t have done this and asked him to come away from the bedroom and leave the cat alone. Later I found him crouched beside the bed calling ‘Booboo’. I told him to leave the cat alone again, threatened dire consequences if he didn’t comply and thought no more of it.

A couple of days later Finn was outside ‘helping’ Mark bucket water out to the garden. Cosmo was sitting on the top shelf in the cat run supervising. Mark tells me that Finn sat below calling “Come down Booey” (pronounced the way Americans say buoy). Ever since, if we ask him who ‘Booey’ is he indicates Cosmo.

This is the first time - that we know of - that Finn has named an animal or thing himself.

Airstream Trailer Caravanning —– PAR_DSCN1095 by metropol2

Nicky noticed lights on in the house at around five this morning and got up to find a boy sitting in his chair having a drink.

“Let’s wake up Dad”.

She finally convinced him to go back to bed. At around six-thirty he came and got me to show me the mess he made in his room.

“Dad. Come and see my mess!”

So we put all of this clothes back into the baskets and got dressed. I figure any kid this awake and cheerful is fine to go to childcare for the last day for three weeks and so he did.

Bad Wolf by finkangel

When Finn told us he had a sore tummy before lunch we thought he was just crying wolf and was probably just hungry.

He didn’t eat much lunch and then turned down a snowball (which should have set alarm bells going).

The he threw up.

He seemed to brighten up straight away. Now he’s having a well deserved sleep.

Gruffalo in Plymouth by Plymouth Library Services

I thought I should share some of the good books we are getting from the library these days. Every Tuesday we go and listen to story or two, Finn picks out a video and we both pick out a handful of books.

Finn is not all that good at the sitting and listening bit which is funny because he’s really good at it at childcare. He is really good at the picking a Thomas video though.

Anyhow it’s great to bring home new books every week and there are some wonderful titles. We borrowed The Gruffalo a few months ago and Finn really enjoyed it.

Just last week we noticed The Gruffalo’s Child which we brought home. It’s great too.

Also home this week is Day Out with Daddy. It might drive me a bit mad with the Useless Daddy stereotypes but Finn loves it.