After The Storm

On Saturday it rained and rained and rained, as you can see through the window of this picture. Liam didn't mind the rain.  He enjoyed eating some pasta and cookies.

He was a messy boy.

At around 1:30 in the morning the wind really started blowing.  It sounded like the rain was being launched sideways at our windows. The next day we went down by the creek near our house.  This huge log is normally not there.

A small tree down

Liam and mommy playing in the water

He enjoyed it.

We also made some DELICIOUS tortilla soup.

It was awesome

Later we headed to Home Goods to see about a cabinet for our entry way.  Liam keeps trying to knock down the little table that is there now.  Of  course we didn't find anything, but since fall and Halloween are coming soon we found this....

and this...

Chris even liked them and normally he makes fun of my decorations.  Speaking of fall, you can tell the weather is changing because the air has that crispness to it lately! Later Sunday evening we went on a run and found this poor tree down.

It is amazing what a little wind can do.  I am just thankful we kept our power unlike some people who are still without!

Here is Liam's new thing, pulling EVERYTHING he can out of the cupboards.  He especially likes the pans and banging them against the floor.

And lastly a video clip of Liam and the dishwasher

9 Months

So this little guy is 9 Months!  

He is still an absolute joy.  He makes us laugh every day and continues to do new and exciting things.  He has become more vocal with screaming, baby garble, etc.  He still says mama, dada, baba, but with no purpose to who he is saying it to so no official first word yet.  

He actually slept through the night for the first time ever on his 9 month birthday.  It was awesome!  8:30PM to 6:30AM.  Lets hope this becomes a trend! 

We had his 9 month appointment on Friday and he is doing very well.  Everyone continues to say how tall he is, and how big he is for a 9 month old.  And he has been taller than most 9 month old babies he has been around, but at his appointment he was 29 inches, which put him in the 75 percentile.  Its the first time he hasn't been in the 90th for height.  He has finally moved up in weight and is now 20lbs 4ozs!  50th percentile! YA!  We finally got out of the 20s! HA!

He loves to stand and has attempted take a step on his own when Chris and I encourage him.  He actually held my  pinky finger the other day with one hand and walked with me.  It was so cute :)  

Liam is still a very happy and content baby.  He is also still very curious about everything and must study it.  I have been playing music for him and instead of dancing he figures out where the iPod is and tries to figure out how the music is coming from it.  He is his father's son!  

He loves to laugh and play

I love this one

Liam also LOVES to climb.  He has been climbing on anything and everything.  We got our diapers in the mail the other day.  I walked into the kitchen and when I came back Liam was on top of the box.  I couldn't believe it! Here he is later that night showing of his mad skills.

On the diaper box

To the coffee table

Big Stuff

At least he gets the idea of feet first!

Liam is our sweet little guy.  He is pretty much always happy, loves to play, and read with his mama and dada.  He is AWESOME!

Earthquake!

As most of you know we had an earthquake here on the east coast. BIG DEAL! Okay not really.  I felt more afraid in Kingman when I was younger and was actually awakened from my sleepy slumber to find my bed had shifted about a foot away from the wall, and even then it was no big deal. The only affect at our house was a couple of picture frames shifted. Liam and I were at the zoo with Grace and Lilah.  We were sitting at the Kid's Farm petting donkeys when we felt mild shaking.  Grace looked at me and said "What's that?"  My response, "I dunno, maybe somebody is shaking the posts" HA!  As we left the zoo, people were being evacuated from one of the zoo buildings and Grace and I jokingly decided maybe it was a bomb threat.  It wasn't until I was loading my car that a woman asked me if I felt the earthquake.  I responded, "Oh that's what that was"  Then she proceeded to tell me that they are evacuating government buildings and closing down for the day.  That is when I panicked!  Here I am in the middle of DC and now I am going to get bombarded with traffic!  I left the zoo at 2:40, and generally takes 20-25 minutes to get home from the zoo. Liam and I arrived at home 4:37PM.  People were in panic mode, not following traffic signals, cutting people off, and all I could think about was the movie Independence day and people trying to evacuate the city as fast as possible or they were going to die!  On top of it the guy behind me kept honking, I was about ready to jump out of my car and punch him.  It took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to go about 1/2 mile.  I was ready to cry and Liam was not having it either.  I just did my best to keep him entertained.  It was the most RIDICULOUS thing I have ever had to experience. I also found it funny that the media covered primarily DC and NY when those were not even where it hit the hardest! This article made me laugh this morning because I am mocking everyone here just as much as California :)

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44253736/ns/us_news-life/

Chris's experience was much different, maybe because he was in an actual building.  The cell-phone networks were all overloaded and it took Chris an hour to get a hold of me.  I didn't even try calling him until I realized it was an earthquake. HA!

Now then here are some pictures of our day

Lilah and Liam checking out the cow. I think Liam really liked him because I always read THIS book to him :)

Liam and the donkey

The kiddos petting the donkey.  Liam had his other hand on him.

The spot the babies felt their first earthquake together ;)

I love these two

Liam ended up missing his 9 month pictures due to the chaos (no worries they are rescheduled for tonight).  I also didn't lay anything out for dinner because we had plans to go out after his pictures so we ended up walking to Chipotle and letting Liam play on the way there.

This one just cracks me up.  I believe he was in the middle of screaming/talking when it was taken.

Mommy and her boy

On the way back Liam road on daddy's shoulders and enjoyed pulling his hair.

My boys :)

I will do a nine month post on Friday after Liam's appointment :)

Dare Devil

On Friday Liam and I went to wee ones story time at a local bookstore called Hooray for Books!  I was amazed at how crowded it was!  Liam and I got there just in time for a seat, but then of course our sweet boy had a poop explosion through his outfit!  I got him changed just in time for story time to begin.  We bought a couple of books and, as we left, I got everything into the car except the books!  I left them on the roof of the car.  I realized it as I was driving away and heard a "thud".  I pulled over and went running after the one book (the other one stayed on the roof).  A gentleman was kind enough to pick up the book for me.  I tried to make a joke of it and said "well at least I got the baby in the car."  He just looked at me like I was nuts and I continued on my merry way.  Liam and I continued our afternoon journey to Whole Foods for some teething cookies and then ate lunch with daddy.

Later that evening he ate his teething cookie.  He LOVED it!

and was a total mess :)

Chris hates baby cookies, he can't stand the mess it makes.  I find it kind of fun!

Later, Liam and I read his new book

I love how focused he is when it comes to looking at books.  It's so cute.

On Saturday we headed to Old Town and just walked around.  Liam got sidetracked at this particular restaurant.  I love how his feet are crossed.

He is a sweet boy

Lately this lil guy is becoming quite adventurous!  He climbs on EVERYTHING!  He can pull himself up very well. The other night he climbed up Chris, on to his shoulders and continued up the couch.

He also has enjoyed climbing from the bottom stair up onto these storage bins.  He has almost fallen head first a couple of times but the last few days has caught on to the idea of feet first :)

Here is daddy watching him after his attempted head dive off the bins.

Lastly, an unrelated picture just because he looks cute chewing on his bottle.

Weekend Fun

On Saturday Chris and I decided to go on a run along the Potomac.  It was so nice outside! Liam fell asleep 

about half way into the workout :)

When he woke up we stopped along the water and fed the ducks and geese.  Liam seemed to enjoy them.

Then he cruised along the park for a little bit.

He held daddy's hand while watching kids running in the grass.

Then he stood for a while so I could take some pictures.

On his way down from standing

Clapping and standing

More clapping

And of course a little thumb biting.  He bites on his thumb so hard, he has actually drawn a little blood.  He still has one tooth coming in and he uses his thumb sometimes as his teether.

On Sunday, we were pretty lazy.  Liam sat around with is friend Goldie.  He likes to lay on him and chew on his tail.

Liam also has an obsession with the dishwasher, the minute he hears the door drop he crawls to the kitchen.

He tries to reach for anything and everything.

He thinks it is great, I just hope he is still interested when he is old enough to load the dishwasher himself :)

Lastly, Liam has his first freckle, it is on his left calf/leg.  It's cute!  I leave you guys with this video from last night of Liam knocking down blocks and finding it hysterical.  He did it while we were video chatting with G&G Casson so you can hear them in the background also :)