Stink Bug

This boy may figure out this whole crawling thing soon.

He likes to stick his little butt in the air, but then his legs collapse underneath him and he goes nowhere. 

Then he gets a little lazy.

Finally he gets tired and looks at me with his sweet face :)

Crazy Sleeper

Yesterday Liam decided that a morning nap was not in the cards! Which stunk because I was dying to catch a few zzz's after work.  Finally, around 1pm, the boy gave in and fell asleep on our way home from the post office.  I got him out of his car seat and laid him down and this is how he fell asleep.  

It is not the first time he has fallen asleep like this, it's just the first time I got a picture of it. I think he must have a fear of losing his feet.

Then, as he gets into a deeper sleep he drops one leg and then the other.  I love my crazy little sleeper!

After his nap he felt the need to read.  He is starting to grab EVERYTHING in sight...

...and stick it directly in his mouth! He is a sweet boy :)

Liam and Lilah's Day Out

The other day I made Chris and Liam come with me to Kohl's, since I had a 20% off coupon and ten dollars of Kohl's cash.  Of course, after wandering around I found NOTHING and neither did Chris.  So I was going to just go get Liam a little outfit but instead we found this toy...

It's a move and crawl ball.  It plays music, lights up, and Liam seems to dig it!

We got home and opened it right up for him and little later headed outside to eat dinner and let Liam play,

Then he decided he was tired of his new toy and daddy's fingers were more desirable.

Yesterday we had a play date with Grace and her sweet baby girl Lilah.  We sat and ate lunch while the babies played.  Liam cracked me up because he just watched Lilah's every move.  She is a month and half older and much more mobile,  our little guy is such an observer as you can see.

Lilah and Liam both looking at the camera!

Then we went on a little walk to a different park area and let the babies swing.  Liam's shoe fell off while putting him in the swing- he was not phased.

Once again Liam observed Lilah, I love how he holds his hands together.

Lilah seemed to enjoy the swings.

Both of the kiddos swinging at the park :)

It was such a beautiful day and so nice to get out with another mom especially since our house is still in shambles! They did finish the carpet last night though; now Chris and I just have to move everything! 

On a side note, basically for my own documentation, Liam bit my nipple yesterday and drew blood!! Then he bit me again later in the evening, I jumped and ended up terrifying my baby and he screamed.  It was basically a horrible experience for both of us and I am now scared to death to feed my child! The end :)

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!