Finn's Firsts

Finn's first Christmas and Visit with Santa.  The real life story behind this picture is below...

Finn's first movie, Frozen!

All the boys had a great time

The picture of the boys with Santa is adorable, isn't it?  I am not partial or anything, but let me tell you the real life story behind the picture....

Since this is Finn's first Christmas, we decided it would be a good idea to get a picture of him with Santa.  We packed up all the boys on a frigid day with subzero temps and took Finn to the mall for his Santa picture.  Why not, right?  We have a picture with each of the other three boys on their first Christmas so we better do it for Finn as well.

We were clearly not the only people to visit Santa on December 23rd.  When we arrived this morning, the line was already long although not as long as it was when we left.  Thinking it would be a good idea to make the most of the time we had and thinking it would be a nice way to occupy the boys, I took them upstairs to get haircuts while John waited in line with Finn.  About five minutes after we get up to the haircut place, I received a text from John asking about how long it was going to be for the haircuts because Finn was getting hungry.  We decide it would be best for me to wait in line for Santa and let John do the haircuts with the boys.  At this point in time, we have been in line for at least 30 minutes and the line has barely moved so the thought of standing in line with all four boys seemed like a bad idea; therefore, we opted to try the haircuts to fill some time while we were waiting.

Once I got downstairs, Finn was really hungry.  I ended up feeding him while standing in line (just to be completely clear, this was not bottle feeding).  About 10 minutes into the feeding, Finn poops out his entire diaper all over his clothing and onto my clothing as well.  He has been on an antibiotic for another ear infection and the medicine makes him have some nasty diapers.  I called John and told him to forget the haircuts and get downstairs as quickly as possible.  When he arrived, I went to the bathroom to get cleaned up with Finn.  I had an extra outfit in my diaper bag, but this was not exactly an outfit I wanted to have in our "First Christmas Picture with Santa" memories.  Next, we made a stop at Baby Gap across from the pictures to get Finn the outfit you see.  By this time, we are still in line (2 hours and waiting) and the boys are pretty agitated.  I finished feeding Finn and quickly changed his clothing in the middle of the mall.  We barely finished in time to see Santa.  Oh the stories we will have for years to come!

In other news, Finn also recently went to see the new movie, Frozen.  Yes, poor Finn (4.5 months old) went to a movie with his brothers.  It was a very cold day and we decided to go on the Friday after Aiden's surgery to remove his rods when we were supposed to be relaxing.  I am 100% positive that I never would have taken Luke and Liam to a movie before the age of 4 years old, much less 4.5 months.  But, Aiden went to his first movie around 2 years old and Finn at the age of 4.5 months!  Not surprisingly, Finn did wonderful and actually watched some of the movie in between eating and napping.

Merry Christmas to all, we have so much to be thankful for.