Cherry Blossoms

I worked Friday night so had to sleep Saturday morning. Chris took Liam to the park and he figured out how to climb up on this all by himself and teeter it!  Usually he needs some help.

Once I woke on Saturday we drove to the mall (national, not shopping) because it was another beautiful day! We hung out in the grass and let Liam run around.  The first few minutes Liam focused on pointing at all the tour buses that drove by and did a lot of people watching.  Here he is pointing up at an airplane he heard but didn't see.

Then he wore his dad's sun glasses.

We walked over to see some of the Cherry Blossoms, and pretty much all of the trees were blooming white except this one.  So we took a few pictures.  We plan on going back Wednesday when hopefully everything will be in full bloom and very pink!

Mom and Liam

Liam happily playing with the post.

Sitting in the tree.

Here is a photo Chris took, it's pretty awesome.

We ended up meeting up with Ghani, Maggie, and Laith and ate dinner in DC.  It was a lovely day.

Springtime!

I had the beginning of this week off and the weather was AMAZING!  Liam and I had a blast.  I tried to convince Chris to call out sick from work but he just had to act like a responsible adult.  On Tuesday, we met up with Maggie and Laith at a HUGE park across the street from the CIA.  Liam was thrilled.

He drove.

He climbed in a school bus.

He even climbed a rock wall. 

There were various play areas and of course Liam chose the area for the big kids.  He climbed right up that rock wall and I had to follow because there was no other way up from that area.  He kept me running.

He did take a 5 minute break to eat some grapes.

Pretty much every day this week we filled up his baby pool and played in it.  He LOVED it!

Splashin'

Daddy and the turtle.

One day he was in the pool for about 40 minutes with no big desire to get out.  

On Thursday I knew we were going to be bathing the boy so I stripped him to his diaper and let him have some pudding.  Chris hates these types of food messes, but the kid has to learn how to eat properly someday.

He enjoyed his pudding very much.

Liam smiling at dad saying "Hahahaha, I am a mess" in his head!

Amish Country

This picture has nothing to do with Amish Country but it just shows that this boy is mischievous.  He knows the chairs are off limits!

Okay, last weekend we drove to Amish Country in Pennsylvania.  I failed to take many pictures so forgive me.  We ended up staying at this cute little place called Kitchen Kettle Village.  Super cute, lots of little shops, good fudge, and home-made cookies! After we cruised the village we decided to take a horse-and-buggy ride by an Amish farm.  Liam fell asleep after about 15 minutes. Then I attempted to place him in his car seat and he wound up like this...

No worries, I adjusted him and we ended up cruising the area for about 45 minutes so the little guy could sleep.  Once he woke up it was time for lunch!  We asked the women cleaning our room that morning  where a good traditional Amish food place was to eat.  She hesitated and then gave us a name of a restaurant that she said was the only Amish run restaurant in the area. That was were we headed and found out that it was not open until the following weekend.  Eventually, we went down the road and ate at a restaurant serving food that was no better than school cafeteria food.  It was so bad I couldn't even eat the mash potatoes I ordered and barely choked down the pulled pork sandwich. So, we moved on with our day.  Liam played in an Amish buggy.

Later that day we stopped in at a furniture store and an ice cream shop, the only stores we went in that appeared to be actually run by Amish.  We asked the kind lady at the ice cream shop if she recommended any place to eat, and she gave us the name of a place and said her family sometimes ate there.  It was pretty much equivalent to Golden Corral but at least it was edible!  I was really disappointed in the food :(  I guess we should have taken Aunt Mindy's recommendation and just eaten at Fuddrucker's on the more modern side of town.  When I went to Amish country in Ohio it was much less commercialized and I remember the food being amazing! But don't get me wrong it was still cute, nice, and relaxing.

On Sunday we were packing up our stuff and Liam chilled on the bed watching cartoons.  Good thing we don't have a TV on our main floor!

Once we were out the door we headed to an indoor model train place.  I had envisioned it to be MUCH different in my head but I am sure that doesn't shock anyone.  It was basically a big room with model trains going every which way.  I am sure Sheldon Cooper would have LOVED it, but lets face it I am NO Sheldon.  Liam thought it was pretty cool though and kept saying "ChooChoo".  It was cute.

Pointing at the train

Chris liked this 3 headed guy under a bridge.

This house with the tan roof catches on fire and the firemen come to the rescue about every 7 minutes.

Baseball field in night time. Every 10 minutes the lights would go off and you could see everything lit up.

Liam enjoyed dancing in this train outside.

He thought it was pretty neat.

Then we went to the Thomas the train store in the same complex.  Liam got a noisy Thomas the Train book that he loves and we got a certain little boy named Patrick a sweet engineer hat for his birthday.  If I can wait that long to send it to him!  Liam also road the Thomas train outside.  I think it threw him off when it moved at first.  He enjoyed it though.

Lunch Time!

Yesterday Liam and I met Chris for lunch.  We went to Subway and Liam got his first sandwich!  Originally, we figured we would just take out the meat, cheese, and tomatoes out and let him eat it.  Then we decided to let him have-at the whole sandwich.

He loved it!

He ate the WHOLE thing too!!

Liam's First NBA Game

On Monday night we went to Liam's first basketball game, and watched the Washington Wizards vs. the Golden State Warriors. Liam started out like this eating crunchies.

He was pretty cute.

Later, Liam decided that movement was necessary.  He ran around out in the concourse area, then climbed the stairs, and chairs, then Tammy was nice enough to let him play with her phone and he was in heaven.

Ghani, Maggie and Laith with his cute headphones to drown out the noise of the 7% capacity crowd.

Overall, it was a great time.  Liam enjoyed people watching.  When we left Chris and I discovered a lovely parking ticket on or windshield all because we interpreted the parking sign wrong.  We are geniuses!

Saturday Fun and 16 Weeks!

Saturday morning it rained and rained and rained but by the time Liam woke up from his nap the sky had cleared!  Here are a few pictures of the boy after his nap.  He decided he needed to relax in the rocking chair.

Love this baby!

Since the sky was blue I decided that we immediately needed to go outside and let Liam run.  We went to old town and it was crazy crowded and everyone was dressed for St. Patty's Day.  We soon figured out we had just missed the St. Patty's Day celebration!  We were even dressed for the occasion without knowing.  I was wearing green and Chris had on orange, green, and white. He really fit in. 

Eventually, we made it down by the water so the boy could run around.  He kept going to every water puddle and multiple attempts to jump in the Potomac as well.  No worries, though, Chris stayed close to our adventurous boy. 

Pointing at something.

Climbing on rocks by the water.

Standing on a tree stump!  Don't worry, Chris was standing right next to him.

Liam and Mom

And here it is: an official baby bump picture!

16 weeks!

Ball Pit!

Last Tuesday was our last play date with Noah and Holly.  They have officially moved to California (sad face). So late Monday night I decided that the babies had to have a ball pit to enjoy their last get-together, plus Liam is obsessed with balls!  We loaded up and headed to Target to buy a bag of 150 balls!  At first I couldn't find them and was almost on the verge of tears when I spotted the very last bag.  I was so excited!  Once Liam was in bed Chris blew up the pool and we poured the balls in.  I couldn't wait to see Liam's reaction in the morning!  Here is a little video, he wasn't as excited as I hoped but later on he was having a blast in it.

Happy boy after breakfast!

Here he is right before the other kiddos arrived, emptying all the balls out!

The other babies enjoyed the ball pit too.  Liam and Noah had almost all the balls out of the pool and they would fall forward and land in the pool.  They thought it was great.  For lunch we ordered some pizza.  I put Liam in his chair and the other two just ate off his tray also, but then Lilah and Noah figured out his chair has wheels and started pushing him around the kitchen.  It was hilarious, Liam just gave me a "mom are you gonna help me or what" kind of look.

After lunch we took the babies outside for some fresh air.  They played on the four-way teeter totter together.  Aren't they cute!

I failed at getting any more pictures, which is a bummer since it was their last play date all together.  When Holly left we both started to tear up a little but we survived and they will be missed a lot!

When Liam woke up from his nap he sat in the ball pit and enjoyed his string cheese and water. 

I think he liked it overall!