Another Great Afternoon

busy working in the garden, we heard a wonderful sound!

Finn has a new favorite kind of truck!

the eating of an ice cream sandwich is very serious

but it makes him very happy!

I know it must seem like tractor driving is all we do….

but it kind of is!

Farmer Harrington at the wheel!

Tractor Mania

so he zooms down the sidewalk in front of the house

and for some reason likes to call out “how yah doing, sonny?”

then makes the turn into the driveway

and (don’t worry Bill, we moved the car!) goes flying down the driveway into the garage!

 

Finn Portrait Session

Finn and his ever faithful yellow blanket.

Finn and I had a great afternoon in the garden. He has developed a new game – driving the tractor down the sidewalk in front of our house, turning into the driveway, and crashing into the back of my car. I got a lot of weeding done while he did it over and over again!

 

His joy was contagious!

This one is for Hannah!

So Finn has really been enjoying Hannah’s videos and decided to make a message for her. And yes, he does call her “Hannah Brian Murphy” – No comment! (keep those video’s coming, Han!)

Oh the age of Three

I was getting out a bunch of spring/summer stuff from Finn’s closet the other day and came across these shorts. They are, as you can see, bright turquoise with sharks on them (keep in mind, neither of these attributes should endear them to young Finn).  They are actually boxer shorts, size 4/5 that I think we somehow picked up in a hand-me-down pile from Leo. Finn has fallen in love with an item of clothing for the first time. It all started when he wanted to put them on before bathtime. I suggested we put them on after bath, seeing as how he was suppose to be getting naked not dressed. After bath he ran into his room and put them on. However, he then saw that I had already got pjs out and asked if he could put the pj bottoms on first and then the shorts on over them. So that way “I can still see them.”  Seeing no harm, I said yes. He has worn them every night since, in that same fashionable way. Luckily, he is still accepting the “you can’t wear them over your pants during the day because they might get dirty” line. He was especially excited about the combo featured above because “it’s all animals.”  I wish I had a picture from tonight’s get up.  He has got on the same bear top but the pj bottoms are bright red covered in trucks, and then of course the sharks on top. Lovely.

Finn drives the digger

more farming fun

We got Finn an “Uncle Denis” hat at Auntie Helen’s shop much to his delight.

This is my favorite photo so far:

Happy Birthday Grandad! We had a great party last night for Grandad’s big 6-0. It was lots of fun and Finn stayed up very, very late!

Day 3 = Uncle Stevie is here = hooray!

The busy streets of Skibereen…

make somebody very happy!

perched atop Uncle Stevie’s shoulders for the view

enjoying some Bob Marley courtesy of Uncle Stevie’s itouch – took awhile to figure out he had to stay close to me to keep the ear phones in!

we had a nice visit with Nana Ellie and Finn shared his new tractor book with her.

and lots of fun (and some mischief) was had with Stephen and James

another great day!

Farmer Finn

It was a dream come true – a visit to the farm to see Uncle Denis and Auntie Tessie.

You can imagine the questions Finn had for Uncle Denis – including did he have any pink cows that made strawberry milk. (we decided that it comes from the white cows with red spots)

Finn meets an Aberdeen Angus calf born yesterday! Denis has given me a good deal on three of them and we are shipping them home. Get the garden ready Allan!

Inspecting the milk.

(more pics from the farm to come – stay tuned)

Ending the day with a bubble bath.

Giving daddy a call from the bath phone.

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Birthday Take 2!

We got to celebrate Finn’s birthday (again!) tonight with Leo and yet another fire truck cake! Finn asked when we were getting the cake ready, “Am I still three Mummy?”