finn

finn turned 3 on august 9th, our last vacation day in sweden.  it was nice for my family to have a chance to celebrate his birthday with him.  we have lots of august birthdays in the family and celebrated finn, hampus (19) and sam (4) all in one day.  it was a beautiful day and finn was so excited when he woke up.  to finally be 3!  his cousins sam and maj came to see him and they played at the play ground.  after that, we headed to the beach and to lunch at marinan.  marinan has it down..they are settled right at the beach and has part of the beach built into their outdoor patio so the kids can play in the sand in between bites while the parents have a chance to enjoy their food/drinks.  genius.    

finn he had been waiting for sooooo long to turn 3 and talked about it for months!  several weeks ago, i came to pick up finn a little earlier than usual.  the kids were up from their nap and his group were sitting around the little table, enjoying a treat.  it was someone's birthday and the parents brought a treat for all the class mates.  they had just handed out the cake when i arrived.  i looked at finn and realized that he was crying and angrily pushing away the cake.  he didn't want it.  my kid - not wanting cake?  something i had never seen before.  after talking with his teacher to find out if she knew what was going on, we realized that he was upset and disappointed because it wasn't his birthday..  he was looking forward to it so much and knew it was "coming up".  so sad!

well, our little guy is now 3 and officially a big boy.  he wants to be just like his big brother.  he in fact copies pretty much everything max does.  this evening, he actually copied everything max said, sentence after sentence until it became just too annoying.

oh, and i called him a "big boy" the other day and he asked "am i a big boy now"?...followed by "can i have coffee now"?  not yet buddy!  one day.