Finley's First Week of Daycare

As most of you know, I had to go back to work this week so Monday was Finley's first day at Kid's Count. As you can see from the pictures, she is the most adorable thing in the world early in the morning when she doesn't want to wake up. The "teachers" told me she was a sweetheart - "full of smiles and so cute", they wrote on her "report card". I actually did pretty well, too, although I couldn't wait to see her smiling face when I ran out the door of school as fast as lightning at 3:30 on the dot.

Today, Finley started to really crawl. She's got all the gears working now, legs and arms together. Last night, she gave me a scare when I went around the corner into the kitchen at Megan's and, literally 30 seconds later, heard a loud thump, silence, and then a long cry. When I ran to the living room, Finley was laid out at the bottom of the stairs, several feet away from where I left her lying peacefully on her back. The only thing I could figure was that she tried to pull herself up on the bottom of the stairs and fell over. That theory was validated tonight when she pulled herself up on her Daddy's leg.

Besides her crawling and pulling up, she also laughs when I put her binky in my mouth. Then, she takes it out and puts it right into her mouth. She loves to be read to. She puts the book in her mouth until we start reading, then she calms down and listens quietly to each and every page. Finley is starting to understand clapping. She gets very excited when we clap and swings her arms like she's trying it herself. Her hands are getting to be much more useful to her - not simply as fascinating as they once were. She's growing and changing before our eyes!