Saturday Night

We had dinner at Aaron and Angie's on Saturday night and was Dane ever excited for company - I could hear him screaming when the doorbell rang.  Aaron explained that they were playing hide-and-seek, and just as he started to say, "Ready or not, here I come!" the door bell rang (talk about perfect timing!).

Aaron and Angie also pulled out some of Dane's baby toys for Finn to play with, and Dane could hardly wait to show Finn all of the fun toys - and to play with them, too.  I'm a huge advocate of changing out Finn's toys and books every couple of days - I'm pretty sure he gets bored looking at the same things, and since he still has goldfish brain a little bit, when I bring out a toy, even if he played with it last week, he still acts like he just got a new present. 

I wish this trick still worked with Abby.  It might deter some of the: "I'm so bored!" statements that I get on Saturday afternoon.

So, Saturday night, with the front door still wide open, our coats and shoes still on, and the hellos barely out of our mouths, Dane was already bouncing in the living room, anxious for Finn to play with the new toys, which of course comes out in a very long sentence: "Um, Aunt Heather, Aunt Heather, Aunt Heather, put your baby in this bouncer this used to be mine can we put your baby in here right now can we Aunt Heather?"

So, after a few minutes of getting our collective crap together and the baby changed, Dane got his wish and he kept telling everyone to look at the baby (using his little squeal voice which is just so dang cute!) and Finn looked like he'd just won the lottery.  Then Dane laid his blanket on the floor and asked if Finn could play on the floor now with the other toys.  He proceeded to put every single toy in front of Finneaus after explaining what it was and adding which ones he used to play with when he was a baby (all of them) and which ones didn't have any batteries (it was a very big deal that some of them didn't have batteries, but I assured Dane that Finn didn't really care.). 

I think there was a little sensory over-load going on for my baby!

{Dane & Finn | 1.22.11}

Abby got some cousin play time in with Dane, as well.  She showed him her Nintendo DS and Dane snuggled himself right up next to her on the couch and watched her play Super Mario Brothers, asking her questions about what she was doing and why she was doing it.  I love cousin play time.  I can't wait until this summer when they all play at the beach together and go fishing with Grandpa (supervised by the Dad's - and leaving the Mamas at home with a lovely bottle of wine!).