The Great Flood

This week has been somewhat eventful. Liam has been eating baby food on a daily bases.  He enjoys apples.  

Here is Daddy attempting to feed Liam:

Then I decided that we needed to do a little spring cleaning.  I vacuumed, mopped, washed our curtains, etc and then when Chris came home from work he was willing to clean out closets!  We piled up old clothes and blankets and ended up with 9 trash bags to go to Good Will.  

Can you find Liam?

Top View

Now then, this little boy is starting to sit up by himself for seconds at a time.  (He has to be placed in the sitting position, but he only needs a little bit of a help to pull him up) You have to be close so that he doesn't fall.

Cute boy

On Friday evening our water heater decided to break and flood our basement!  Thank goodness Chris just happened to walk downstairs to grab a pacifier.  He went down and when he first stepped in the water he assumed I spilled something (so kind of him) then he took another step and looked around and realized it was much worse.  He turned off the water and called maintenance.  He was up until about 11PM moving furniture and then again the next day. I was at work during this event and had to sleep Saturday to return to work. I did wake up around 1:30 and helped a little. I know I wanted to get a little cleaning done but I didn't want to do it this way! Plus, having to move everything has destroyed the upstairs and ruined everything that was cleaned. *Sigh*

The beginning

Ruined dining room chairs

Trash

On another note, our neighbors started going through our stuff- kind of them, I know.  There were only a few items that we were going to keep and one of them was a rubber container that our lovely neighbor walked off with as Chris was outside explaining to his wife how we had a flood and NO we were not moving.  I thought about going over there and getting it back due to the principal of the matter but Chris convinced me to let it go.

I leave you with a lovely picture of this little boy.  If you make the picture big you can see his teeth!

And here he is trying to steal his daddy's milkshake (not for the last time, I'm sure)!

Anniversary Weekend

Can you believe it?!? One year already and it FLEW by! Chris and I decided to go to Virginia Beach to celebrate.  We left Friday morning after I got home from work, which means Chris drove and I tried to sleep. We made a pit stop at Hobby Lobby which is always amazing and I may finally finish the letters I have been working on for Liam's room :) Once we arrived in VA Beach  I immediately wanted to take Liam swimming.  The only time the poor boy and I will ever see a swimming pool is on vacations.  We headed downstairs to the lazy river.  It was colder than I had hoped but Liam seemed to be okay with it.

Here is Daddy and Liam on the way to the pool.  The boy was so happy.

Mommy and Liam swimming

Daddy and Liam swimming

Then our little squirt got tired so we headed back to the room so he could rest and he fell asleep holding onto the crib pole.

This is the view from outside our room.  We picked a great spot, every room from this hotel had a view of the ocean and it was on the end of the board walk so it was a little quieter too. 

Then we headed downstairs to dinner and Liam sat in high chair for the first time.  We had to stuff all sorts of things into the space surrounding him but it worked alright.

Looking up to our hotel from the beach

Family photo attempt #1

Liam experiencing sand for the first time

The next morning Liam woke up about 5:40 to eat.  The sun was on its way up so once the boy fell back asleep, I woke Chris up and made him sit on the balcony with me so we could watch the sunrise.  It was beautiful.

Then we attempted to go back to sleep but this little monster decided it was time to wake up.  He was very lovey on his daddy.

Then we decided to order room service-which was great and they even put a little flower on our plates :)

This boy got dressed in his awesome shark outfit for the day.

We headed out on a lovely stroll down the board walk 

There was a kite festival going on and we got to see this 40-50ft long kite attempt to get up in the air

Later in the afternoon we gathered all our supplies (beach towels, umbrellas, blanket, etc) and headed down the the beach.  Liam chilled on the blanket.

Then Daddy and him laughed together

Then Liam dipped his feet in the ocean

Family photo attempt #2

The next morning we packed up and went down the beach to say our good-byes.  I personally could have stayed forever. 

Liam with his feet in the sand again

Daddy and Liam taking in the breathtaking view.

We had a pit-stop in Richmond to eat lunch with the Harden's and the Ives which is always lovely.  Unfortunately, I left my camera in the car so I have no pictures :( Then we made another small stop at a mall on our way home and I found the most awesome pillows and whale pillow to go in Liam's room!  After a vigorous debate with myself, I was able to convince myself to buy them.  Once I am completely done with his room I will post pictures.  Overall it was a FANTASTIC one year anniversary.  I just can't believe how fast it has gone and how much my love grows for Chris everyday. Yup, I just got a little mushy deal with it!

5 days later...

Liam cut his second tooth! I can't believe my baby has 2 teeth coming in :(  He is growing up way too fast.  Today he was a little cranky, too, and was having a heyday with his vibrating teether (not to mention he was chewing on my chin all day).  That is all I have for now; I am off to work and then Virginia Beach bound in the morning!  First with a pit stop at HOBBY LOBBY!!  Woohoo!

Easter Fun!

This weekend was awesome! It is so nice when I don't have to work the weekend and I can spend time with my boys. On Saturday we went to the Farmer's Market, grocery store etc., dyed Easter eggs, and finally watched the last Harry Potter.

Here is Liam and daddy dying eggs together.

Mommy and Liam playing with an egg

Liam eating an egg

Once we were done dying eggs.  We all went up stairs and read "T'was The Night Before Easter" to Liam.  It's a cute little book :) He loved it! Once he was a sleep with visions of the Easter Bunny in his head, Chris and I watched Harry Potter.

The next morning the Easter Bunny came and Liam was thrilled!  He wore his First Easter outfit.

Then Daddy and Liam opened their Easter baskets

Liam love his new book, outfit, and stuffed chick :)

Chris was excited about the Big Bang Theory Season 3. Thanks to Scott we are both addicts now.

Liam grabbing at his goodies

After Easter Baskets Liam and Daddy went on an Easter Egg hunt.

It was a beautiful day so we decided to go to the zoo and it was a GREAT day for the zoo!  We ended up parking near the gorillas who just happened to be getting ready for their Easter Egg hunt. The zookeepers made paper mache eggs stuffed with apples that had yogurt and peanut butter on them.  It was great to watch the gorillas run out and find their treats.

Liam and me awaiting the gorillas

This one found his egg right away

The Silverback claimed his egg immediately and then sat right in front of the window for all the people to see.

We had the best view of the baby which was awesome.  The baby is probably about 2 years old.  He found an egg and had control of it for a small amount of time. Just watch the video below.

Next we went and saw the Sloth bears because Chris and I think they are awesome.

Daddy and Liam

He's a happy boy :)

Next we checked out the orangutans 

Then we headed over to see the lions.  It was great because all the babies were out.  There were 6 of them, 2  adult females, and the male. This little guy wanted to play.

The moms and their babies

As we were heading back from the lions the orangutans decided to cross over the zoo on their ropes.  It is so neat to see these guys hanging above you.

This one was in full swing. I even let out a gasp thinking he may fall but Chris proceded to tell me they are better at swinging than we are at walking [I meant Sarah in particular, but whatever -wcc]. Chris tried to get video of him but he moved too fast.

All in all it was a great Easter Sunday and we became zoo members so there will probably be many more trips (especially since zoo member kids like Liam get free animal crackers whenever they visit the zoo, even if he only has one tooth poking through his gums) :)