calvin & audrey & estelle turn ONE!

file under::: a serious celebration::::three of finn's baby friends turning 1 on the same day and so we celebrate!

the goodbye hello

file under::::photos i have recently found from the last couple years plus a few recent finn tricks

whale in the woods, typed up, from my last semester in mfa school

alongside the oort cloud the childbearing year (direct loans)
the autumn frolicking of aleta and paulo (with quinn in distance)

apartment on dodge street writing corner with shadows

finn feeds mama

finn with his blueberry eyes on the second blueberry picking excursion

LAST NIGHT WE RECEIVED A GIGANTIC VISITOR

file under::::we thought it was an albino bat:::::::you cannot tell how huge this wizardly moth was from these somewhat crappy photos, but I can. it was big and it had a desperate message for us. what was it trying to say???!!!

finn! happy

file under:::i cannot stop this birthday nor can i stop these birthday photos::::::finn! happy (with a corner of wendy)

granpa and finn trade hats at the zoo
finn and quinn

birthday outfit

us (wendy gets photo cred on this one thanks wendy!)

a birthday is yes is yay and yeah!

file under: more birthday lovin'::::shout-outs to jen for the awesome giant finn poster and for being the amazing mother of 2 amazings, calvin and audrey finnegan later on-on his birthday-day at the waterpark in coralville!

finn and papa later on in birthday week with penguins at des moines zoo!

a crowned baby with the mama getting ready for the birthday cake party

watching the sea lion show!

first birthday highlights

file under: a very first anniversary of birth celebration:::::::::family portrait with linden tree (and new red birthday pants thanks jj!!) (and wendy thanks for photo-ing!) finn and good baby friend estelle with birthday balls (and freshly sewn birthday teepee!)

another first was::first chocolate cake (make that chocolate-blueberry cake, and made by peter the papa)

candles on the cake

a two-baby wagon ride down the alley capped off the festivities (in birthday wagon, and with birthday crown on!) (and with michigan birthday shirt from the newly michigan-located goeddes----thanks goeddes we miss you!)

happy labor anniversary to me!

file under: monumental event remembered in pictures::::::the labor and subsequent birth of finnegan d. began about exactly one year ago today--at this time one year ago, peter and I went out for mexican and when we came home, I took a nap and woke up to my water breaking. . . 31 hours later, finn was here!


the new born babe. . .
with the delirious exhausted delighted parents. . .

this is still one of his favorite ways to fall asleep, head on mama or papa chest. . .

the room where the event was about to take place (with birth tub!)

me at about the 39th week I believe! (there's a baby human in that belly!)