The boy eats

Finley has moved further along the path to persondom. As the photographic evidence will show, he has begun eating rice cereal to supplement the steady stream of breast milk he has been taking in.
As he narrows in on his 6 month birthday, he is doing great. He is sleeping like a champ. And he is full of smiles and cuddles when he is awake. He is so much fun.
There have been no more doctor appointments to report on, but Mommy took him in and weighed him this week and he was 17 lb, 3 oz.
He is doing great in childcare when Mommy is in her bible study on Wednesdays and they are having lots of fun in their music class on Thursdays.
Fin celebrated his first Canadian Thanksgiving with a great dinner that his Mommy made for 24 people. That is not a typo. We had several Canadian UNC students and some of their parents over for a full turkey dinner. It was fantastic. You can see the picture below... we brought our neighbours' dining room table into our living room.
All is well here as we settle in for some beautiful fall weather. We are experiencing a fairly serious drought (there has been NO rain for a long time). But the extreme heat has broken (finally!).
Here are a bunch of pictures from the last little while.
Love,
Finley and the family

Finley at five months

Everything is great.
Finley turned 5 months old on Friday.
We are having such a fun time with the little man as he discovers more and more things and becomes more and more interactive with us. His giggles are getting louder and more boisterous... so are his cries. He has rolled over a couple of times from back to front.
He had his first experience in childcare this week when Mommy went to her weekly bible study on Wednesday morning. He did great!! Mommy and Fin are starting a music class on Thursdays soon, too.
His sleeping and eating continue to go great. His pooping has taken a turn in the less-frequent-but-much-bigger direction. He averages 2.7 outfits a day.
Finley's physiotherapist came for a visit last week and said that she doesn't need to see him anymore, so his torticollis is officially another thing that he has licked.
Life is good here. August was the hottest month in the history of North Carolina... 30 of the 31 days in August had highs over 90 F, 10 with highs over 1oo F. And there was no rain. But it is breaking and the days are mostly beautiful now.
And the big news... as you saw from his adorable little passport at the top, Finley is now officially an American citizen.
Lots of love from North Carolina,
The Markles

Giggles in Burberry

Fin-dawg is stylin' in the clothes his cousin Samuel passed down.




And here is the video that was promised in the last post.

18 weeks old and doin' fine

I'm sure we have lost most of our audience with this three-week absence, so this is really for the die hards at this point. And it is also serving as a chronicle and picture-sorting exercise for us, so it shall continue. We were home in Ontario for 10 days. The pictures below are a sampling from the 600 or so that we took while we were home. Fin did great on both plane rides (including the first when he was denied boarding because he didn't have a passport and we were delayed for four hours while we ran around jumping through pointless hoops to enable him to get on the next flight). His sleeping got a bit messed up, so we are dealing with the joys of that right now, but he'll be back to normal soon (please!). Fin saw his neurologist and his paediatrician this week. Both had great things to say. He is tracking in the 50/60 percentile range for height, weight, and head size (this is a key one for kids that have had seizures). His torticollis seems to be getting better. His newest thing is the cutest little giggle that you ever did hear. We will endeavour to get one on video soon. Grandma Hannah is down for a two-week visit and Fin is loving having her here.