Fair warning: This is one of those Videos Where Nothing Happens, but we find it kind of charming anyway. Henry is a real innovator when it comes to his pacifier, treating it like a sandwich. Behold the noisy, Nutcracker-tinged munching:
Grandpa Liggett gets in some good, impromptu weightlifting courtesy of one jubilant sack of potatoes:
To say that Grandma & Grandpa Liggett’s gifts of a Thomas the Tank Engine play hut and sock-monkey slippers are a hit is just a wee bit of an understatement. Finn now more or less insists on being addressed as/referring to himself as “Engineer,” and he wakes up talking about “Monkey shoe attack!” Check out a typical session:
Perhaps you recall our little friend Creepy Mousy, teaser of all ticklish little locals. Well now the creepee has become the creeper! Check it out:
Dad-O’s gibberish + some background Bocelli = Christmasy good times on the play mat. 🙂
Many if not most days, Finny & I start the morning with some “leche-bud” (milk) and some cruising around YouTube. Old Sesame Street clips are a big favorite, especially the Martians who say “Yep yep yep, AH-ha, AH-ha!” We especially love how they freak out (“Feek out!!”) and hide behind their lower lips, saying “Dohhhh!” Today, playing off of this clip, we had a bit of fun with Finn as the wind:
Ah, and here we thought that with two young boys on hand, we’d never get to use our exercise equipment again. Okay, we were kind of right (in that we rarely exercise), but now through Finn rides, the “(E)lliptical!” and Mom-O’s Pilates machine have new leases on life. Checkitout:
We’ve recently made our basement a tad more tot-friendly (“Now with 90% fewer rusty nails and sawdust piles lying around!”), and we’re looking forward to taking things further (maybe disguising/disarming the metal poles as trees, etc.). Onward & downward.
As I mentioned in a previous post, Auntie Laura was here for a visit last week while John was off to the dusty desert with the guys (Hoot! Matt! as Finn would say.)
Since John, our resident photographer and blog-post illustrator/gallery maker was away, my post did not have any of the photos or video footage from her visit. So I’m pleased to announce that at long last, we have photographic proof of her visit, and here is the gallery (HTML) to prove it :D.
And here’s a fun little video of Finny and Auntie Laura singing the “Banana” song. Finn is obviously very pro-banana unification!
You cannot handle the cute. 🙂
My favorite part is possibly Finn’s enthusiasm for yelling out totally factual non-sequiturs: “TV room! Living room! Lion!” Oh, and just to defend my cardiovascular fitness to Hoot for a moment: yes, we’d been running laps like this for some time prior to my picking up the camera (pant, pant…). 🙂
Grandma Nack does her trademark finger-walking game with both Finn & Henry in this action-packed installment of As The Nacks Turn ;-).
Okay, fair warning: this is one of those videos where Nothing In Particular Happens. Having said that, it’s fun to see little Henry testing out his singing abilities (something he’s been too quick to stop when I’ve reached for the video cam), and to hear Finny opine that it’s time for his attention-getting brother to take a nap. 🙂 As Finn would say, “Checkkitout”:
“G-Man-upon-Chest”
With two squirrels to look after, it can be challenging for Dad-o to find quality face time with Henry. So when the weekend rolls around and the opportunity presents itself, the guys really take face time seriously! Since Henry’s got to do some “tummy time” as part of his exercise regimen, Dad-o makes it a lot more fun by being the human playmat underneath our little guy. Here is a little taste of wee Henry and Dad-o doing some double tummy time.
I’m terribly behind in posting the photo & videos we captured during Grandma & Grandpa Nack’s visit six weeks (!) ago, but I’m going to take a run at sharing more soon. Here’s a clip of Der Finnster grooving on some play equipment (“Kinda steep!!”), joined eventually by Grandpa Nack:
Playing on our love of/terminology for slides (“Kinda STEEP!”), Finn has lately been asking to go “Kinda DEEP!” in the bed-cave we make upstairs. First we see the big guy & Dad-O go to town:
And next, Mom-O joins in the action!
Our pal Eileen Whitson, better known around here as “MrsW,” reported recently that she learned of her son Bryan’s toe-breaking via Finn (“Hoot! Doh-Mahn! Crack! Bro-kun! Gato. Dumpling”). “I think getting the news from Finn,” she says, “may be even hipper than getting the news from Jon Stewart.” Hah–that’s some high praise indeed!
Here’s Finn talking excitedly of Mrs. W. coming to visit, followed by a version of his toe story (with an intermission for “Broken Ham”):
The Finnfatha & I had a ball visiting multiple parks multiple times with the Nack GP’s. Look for photos soon; in the meantime, here’s some quality three-generational swinging action:
As mentioned the other day, Finny took a real shine to Grandma’s “Surprise Lap” routine, and we frequently hear him running around singing the little tune. Here’s our pair in action:
We’ve mentioned our weird family version of This Little Piggy, but it’s never before been committed to film. 🙂 In this clip you can see Grandma Nack cracking Finn up, earning unending calls for “More Domendite!”
As we may have mentioned, Finn is *way* into hanging around with other guys, and he’s particularly fascinated with our friends Tom, Hughes (“Hoot”), and Hughes’s 4-month-old son Miles (nicknamed “Milos” & pronounced “Mee-loash”). He periodically likes to go on little riffs, calling out each one’s name:
Meanwhile, the corresponding ladies (Bryan’s wife Alex, and Tom’s wife Sarah & baby daughter Harper) can’t even make a blip on Finn’s radar screen! That’ll all change in time, no doubt, but for now, it’s the Guy Show through and through.