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 :)

All Sorts of Stuff

Well, since I have been horrible at blogging this last week we present you with a bunch of random photos. 

Liam started eating peas and carrots, although I have to peel the peas because the skin is a little much for him [He's like a little sultan being fed peeled grapes by hand at his whim].  He seems to really love the peas.

Daddy stuck Liam in a cardboard box.

He loved it!

Sleepy boys eating a banana together

Liam practicing his gymnastics

He loves crawling on the dining room chairs.

Babies-R-Us had a baby food sale. Liam will not starve this month :)

Here is a random picture of my flowers from the Farmer's Market.  They are called brains!

On Tuesday Liam had a play-date with Tommy.  Tommy is 6 months so not quite as mobile as Liam. I spent most of my time chasing Liam :)

And trying to keep him from attacking little Tommy.

Chris and I have been trying to walk or run every night.  This gives Liam a chance to play at the park every day that we actually do. He enjoys his time there.

He likes to walk around the train

He has also conquered climbing up the slide by himself.

On Wednesday Liam decided to climb into his diaper bin.  Usually he just pulls it down at pulls all the diapers out of it, but not today.

He decided to sit on the diapers instead.

He also enjoyed attacking his daddy while he was attempting to play angry birds.

Lastly, here are a couple of videos of Liam playing by the stairs and hanging on the gate.  It is one of his favorite things to do during the day. He is much more vocal in the second video :)

Out on the Trail

First of all, this boy was really enjoying the Daily Show last night.

After the show, we took this cute li'l guy out on the trail with his walker 

He loved it

He was so cute weaving back and forth.  Everyone that passed him instantly fell in love and one little boy wanted to pick him up.  No worries- Chris stopped him from doing so.

Liam did get distracted several times.  Once by a big leaf...

...again by a tree.  Overall, it was a big hit, I think he felt more included in our walk :)

Here is a little video for your enjoyment.  Don't worry, he fell straight to his bum at the end.

1st Baseball Game

Liam went to his first baseball game on Tuesday night.  We met up with one of Chris's friends from work and his wife, who used to work for the Nationals as one of those crowd-pumping, t-shirt-throwing people.

Here is our boy.  He enjoyed watching people more than looking at the camera.

Checking out the field

Liam and his daddy

Family photo! 

Liam loved Ghani and his wife Maggie.  I think they enjoyed Liam also.

They are expecting a little boy in September.

Liam even sat in his own chair for awhile.

He did really well until the end of the game.  The Nationals beat the Braves and the crowd got a little loud for Liam, and he cried a little.  After the game the boy was still going strong at 10PM on our way back to the car.  He even let out a scream that made the guy walking in front of us jump. Ha!  The minute we put him in the car seat, though, it was all over.  This boy was OUT!

Walking Boy! (with assistance of course)

Liam loves to walk with assistance. Aunt Mindy got him a little walker toy and it took him about a week to really figure out how to use it.  He LOVES it now.   Here he is testing out some shoes

I was going to take him and his toy outside on the trail to walk so he would have more room but he has such fat feet none of his shoes really fit.  I tried these ones on but they put too much pressure on the tops of his feet.  He also has a nice pair from great grandma but they are too long right now, so this weekend we are going to find some fat baby feet shoes!

He has also started to stand for up to 20-30 seconds at a time (he's capable of standing longer, but doesn't like to be in one place that long).  Here is some video of the boy cruising.

and some more

On Sunday we had a family workout day. Liam dressed appropriately.

He was excited at the beginning. He loves going to the park.

Out like a light on the way home.

After our walk Chris and I decided we were finally going to get our house clean and organize the basement from our epic flood.  We hadn't been able to finish in the basement since maintenance had to move a bunch of stuff to put a seal-coat on the basement walls to prevent mold from growing.  As I was upstairs getting ready to mop the kitchen I heard Chris yell (which can't be repeated on this family blog).  I went down to see what the commotion was about and guess what-it happened AGAIN!!!  This time the 50 year old AC runoff pipe had clogged, so a gradual leak had been dripping for a couple of days. Luckily we caught it before it went all Epic of Gilgamesh on us, but it still got to the carpet and our desk.  It was about an inch of water. Needless to say it ruined the rest of our Sunday plans. I don't think our basement will ever be organized.

Later on Sunday, Chris and I booked airplane tickets for Boston in September.  We have some friends getting married and we thought it would be a nice weekend get-away.  Chris had applied for an opportunity to take a Patent Bar review course offered by the intellectual property education arm of his company (PRG) in preparation for taking (and passing) the Patent Bar in order to promote PRG, where the review course is being offered over a week in California. (Don't ask me exactly what the difference is compared to what he is doing now).  Anyway, my awesome husband's submission won!  The bad part is he has to leave the Sunday we are in Boston!  Luckily, it had been less than 24 hours so we were able to cancel!  We rearranged our trip and are still going to Boston, Chris is just going to fly from Boston to California.  Then he will be home for about 4 days and Liam and I leave for AZ!  So much traveling in the month of September! 

I leave you with this cute picture of the boys reading to each other.