Here's a video from a few from a few weeks back of Finn doing some wall climbing at the community center:
Also, we took the training wheels off his bike this week, and he was up and riding in no time:
- Jonathan
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Friday afternoon, Finn and I were gardening in the front flower bed. We were removing old landscape rocks, cutting back dead stuff, and of course pulling weeds. Finn was loving every minute of it, especially since I let him use the hand pruners. Anyway, our neighbors across the street came home and on the way into their house the woman said to us, "when you guys are done, you can come on over here, we got lots to pull." I laughed and we exchanged a friendly moment. After they were in the house, Finn walked over to me and said "Those people need our help mom, and we can help them....we have cutters and pulling weeds is easy.....I'm good at it so we need to go over there when we are done." He continued on every few minutes with similar statements. My replies ranged from, "She was only kidding honey." , "she was just being friendly", and "yes, they do have weeds, but most people like to pull their own weeds, so we don't need to go over there." and so on did not do much convincing. After hearing myself say that last one really got me thinking. Maybe Finn understands the golden rule better than I do.
- Lisa
Last night Finn was lobbying for a bath. To bolster his case, he claimed that both his arm pits and his leg pits were stinking.
- Jonathan
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Finn recently graduated from a car seat to a booster seat. He was quite excited about this event, especially since he no longer has to wait for someone else to let him out of his seat. He often forgets about this freedom and has to be reminded, though.
Here is a photo of him in his booster and some photos and video of him in his Taekwon Do class:
- Jonathan
Here are some photos of Finn the lion at school
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God didn't make me pretty...he made me cool!
Toots are poop signals.
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"Mom, you will be my mom until you have a heart attack right?" asked Finn
"Oh, I'd be your mom even if I had a heart attack honey" I replied
"Is a heart attack when you have green slime coming out of your chest?" asked Finn
"No honey, no green slime" I replied.
Go figure!!!
Finn had a good time on the soccer field today too, scoring a goal and running really hard chasing the ball all over the field. Here are some videos so you can see what I mean:
- Jonathan
We never showed any photos from the Nashville-KY-Knoxville trip we took in August...After a few days at the Lake Cumberland Resort, we spent the last weekend of our vacation in Knoxville. Saturday night UT's Christian Student Center (CSC) was having a cook-out at the World's Fair site, so we went with the Bells.
At one point, a bunch kids (including Finn) were chasing a huge beach volleyball around the field. I was sitting in a lawn chair and watching. A few minutes later, Lisa and I realized that we couldn't see Finn. We gazed around the big field but still couldn't see him. Each of us and a few of our friends scattered looking for him. Lisa went into the men's restroom looking for him. We couldn't find him. Now it's about 5 minutes later, and we're about to start panicking and calling the police. At that point I see Finn walking towards us with our friend Kelly. She said that she had seen a small kid walking outside the park, just past the spray park. She ran to him, and sure enough it was Finn. He had crossed a small street and was walking down the sidewalk. He couldn't really explain why he had walked off.
What a relief to find him! We decided to get each of us one of the Road ID's (link) to wear when I'm biking by myself, Lisa is walking by herself, Elliot is at soccer practice or Tae Kwon Do, we're at an amusement park, or wherever.
Here are some photos from Knoxville: 
- Jonathan
The boys are playing soccer again this fall. Last Saturday Finn scored his team's only goal, and Elliot scored 2 of his team's 3. Here are some photos of Finn in action:
Being chased by Goliaths, Finn actually fought them off and scored in the above series of photos...
- Jonathan