Another Finn post

June 06, 2011

Another Finn post

Finn seems to grow and learn new skills absolutely every day and it's only a matter of time before he takes his first steps now. With William, i am so proud of each and every little step he takes in his development, but it's easier to keep track of his progress as it's so slow and gradual. With Finn it seems like he literally changes every hour of every day and even keeping track of which words he can say or which skills he's accomplished is an ongoing task and i feel like he's growing up too fast. That's not to say that i'm not proud of him, because i am immensly so, but i just wish he could be a little baby for longer.

Anyway, with that said i wanted to write another post on Finn's development so i can have it on record where he's at right now. i posted a while back that he was crawling (which he can do very fast now!) and cruising round the furniture and he's perfected those skills to be able to move very fast when he wants to. He's also walking pushing his wagon with the long handle and will let go of the furniture and stand for several seconds on his own before grabbing hold again (or falling onto his bottom, but that doesn't deter him) so i feel sure he'll be taking his first independent steps soon, which feels way too early considering he's not even 10 months old yet.

Finn has turned into a mini whirlwind, wreaking destruction and havoc through the house, as his latest game is 'let's pull everything out and heap it in a great big pile on the floor'. To find where Finn is at any given time all you have to do is follow these piles (of books from the bookcase, DVDs from the shelf, laundry from the basket, shopping from the bags yet to be unpacked, toys from the twins' boxes, stationery from the mug i keep on the table in the lounge, pot pourri from an ornament, all the furniture and dolls from Poppy's doll house.....) and then round the corner you'll bump into Finn in the process of pulling the CDs from the rack and he'll hear you coming and say "Fiiiiiiii!" (in exactly the tone of voice i use when telling him off) and then turn and give you the cheekiest grin ever, so it's impossible to be cross with him. He also says "no no" now to tell himself not to do something, then do it anyway, "Mum", "Dada", "Woo woo" (William) and "Poop" (Poppy!) to call us all by name correctly, "Fiiiiiii" his own name, but only when he's done something naughty, "ooooo-va" (hoover) he loves hoovers, "ca" (car) for any moving vehicle - cars, trucks, trains, even planes, another favourite of his, "ook" (look) whilst pointing to something he wants or likes, "baba" for bottle, bath or ball, they all sound the same at the moment and once or twice he's said "hi!". Finn's speech development is a little different to how Poppy's was as he babbles long strings of sounds, more and more of which are becoming understandable to me, rather than saying single intelligible words as Poppy did. i don't know whether it's the twin thing, where twins are known to babble in their own private language, because Finn definitely babbles more to William and looks at him for a reply. He's also signing some words, but doesn't seem to be picking up any new signs now that he's speaking (or now that we're understanding some of his speech) and he now only uses his signs if he doesn't have a spoken word for something yet, which again is different to Poppy who used signs as well as speech for quite some time.

Finn's personality is definitely coming out more now and though he is still a laid back, patient, tolerant and cheerful little peanut, his mischevious and cheeky side is coming out more and more. He just wants to be into everything, exploring and making a mess, not in a naughty way but in a boisterous, excitable, can't wait to see what happens here way. And when he creates an especially big mess or manages to reach something new or discovers a new way of creating havoc, he'll sit back and survey the chaos he's created and utter a sound which he never makes at any other time: "Glah!", which seems to mean "look what i've done". He honestly is so proud of himself at these times that it's hard to be cross with him. We have thought about moving every single item out of reach, so there's no longer any books/DVDs/CDs/etc where he can get them, but to be honest i don't want to live in a house like that, we've baby-proofed it to the extent there's nothing dangerous he can get hold of and i'd rather he got this tendency out of his system now than carried on when he's a toddler. So we'll just live in a whirlwind for rhe present time, gently rebuking Finn for all his messes but inwardly feeling pleased at the progress which means he's able to get himself to these places and use his hands to pull out things, grateful for his curiosity which makes him want to explore and in awe of his amazing language skills which help him to express himself everyday. If William can learn even a fraction of those skills i'll be happy.