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11 and in HEAVEN!!!

Picutres curtesy of {Micah} Leigh Photography

Happy 11 months Finley! I can't believe that you are only a month away from being 1 year young! You are growing and learning so fast that its hard to keep up with everything. You are and absolute ball of fun, joy, and energy. You don't stop moving all day long (which is probably why you are so tiny). You love to play on the floor with all of your toys and explore every cabinet, drawer, and room of the house. The day begins for you around 7 or 7:30 when you wake up. You eat three meals a day...Breakfast is usually oatmeal, yogurt, juice, and sometimes toast, lunch is either baby food or grilled cheese, banana, berries, turkey and dinner is baby food or whatever daddy and I are eating that night. You love to eat big people food and are slowly stating to turn away baby food.
What you are doing now:
*talking A LOT-you say Mama, Dada, baby, ball, bath, Ta ta (Tucker), Papa, GAMECOCK (yeas Gamecock!), doggie, kitty cat, and juice.
*We have started baby sign language with you and you can sign please, more, all done, daddy, and we are working on juice, mamma. You love the song head and shoulder and like to point out your head.

*You wake up around 7:00 and take two naps...one around 9 and one around 2. You have started waking up during the night and want to come into the bed and snuggle with us...I don't get much sleep when you do this but I secretly love it...I will get my sleep when you are a teenager, don't want anything to do with your parents, and sleep til noon (who am I kidding...you will keep me awake at night for different reasons by then!)

*You are such a lover, little snuggler, and sweet baby. I love this about you and how you love to be close to us, hug, and kiss us.

*You like to do the "You're Safe!" and "Touch Down" signs

*You are a pro walker now and you will walk from one end of the den to the other and think you are HOT STUFF! Ha! You can squat down and pick something off of the floor and have been doing that for a while.*Finley, you are an absolute joy in our lives! You are full of personality and everyone that meets you instantly adores you. Mommy and Daddy love you so much and have loved watching you grow...now please slow down! Ha!

Enough said

Happy Valentines Day!

Love, The Buschers

The many faces of Finley Amelia...

My sweet baby is really animated and I absolutely love it. Her face doesn't lie...you can tell when she is happy, sad, confused, excited, and everything in between. I love when she gets happy or excited and squeals and beams from ear to ear! I put this last picture on here because I had to document this face...she gives this face to everyone, Mom, Dad, family, friends, strangers in the grocery store, everyone! It is funny because she is too sweet to look this mean. HA!! I blame this face on her Daddy...

p.s. Sorry some of them are blurry...it is getting increasingly harder to take pictures of her because she is constantly on the move! Time to learn how to use my shutter speed.

Long overdue...

I did something today that I have been putting off for a while. Something that I knew had to be done but I waited until I was absolutely ready to do it. I was afraid that it would brings some tears and maybe a tinge of sadness. But I finally put on my big girl pants and did it...
I cleaned out and packed away all of Finley's 0-3 month and 3-6 month clothes. She has been out of some of them for a while but I wasn't ready to part with them just yet. As I was going through her drawers I decided that I would make this a positive experience...after all, I was cleaning out her wardrobe to make room for more cute clothes. I was packing up her tiny baby clothes because it meant that she is a thriving, living, growing, blessing. A blessing that I thank the good Lord for everyday. I couldn't help but think about those families that lost or have lost a child and had to pack away their belongings for good. I have to be so thankful that I am just making room for more. And on the verge of her first birthday, I am going to keep this positive attitude. We are celebrating her life and the fact that she is so healthy and so happy and sometimes we all take that for granted. Every year of life is a gift from God and nothing is guaranteed. As I took each one of her outfits out of her drawers or closet and placed it in the correct pile I can remember exactly who gave it to her, when she wore it, where we went (if we got out of the house that day), who we saw, and what we did. And if I do say so myself she was a fantasticly dressed baby! There were some that I came across that I remember putting on my sweet Fin and they were too big and I thought that she would never fit into them. Boy was I ever wrong. As I was packing I was thinking to myself now I know why my Mom hung onto all of our clothes growing up. I don't know that I will ever be able to part with them. They are a little slice of her/our babyhood. But for now they are packed and put away. But that is because we have to make room for more memories, fun, cute clothes and many many more years. And that is a positive thing!

FAB Friday!

Bath time fun...Finley LOVES to take a bath! She would seriously stay in there all night if we let her. Here is a video of her putting her toys in and taking them back out of the basket. Hey, at least she cleans up after herself!