Food Thief!

I love watching Chris read to Liam.  It is the sweetest thing in the world!

Plus, Liam listens so intently and watches as you flip the pages.

Liam has been watching us eat and drooling at the sight of food for a while now, but the other night he officially became a food thief!  He kept stealing my french fries right off my plate.  Of course I thought it was the cutest thing ever and insisted that Chris get a picture.  No worries he didn't actually eat the fry, but he did smash it to death.

He is awesome

Liam also likes to bury himself with his blankets.  This is a picture of him tonight.  He kept pulling the blanket over his head and I would pull it back down.  He is completely out and slept like an angel for about 15-20 minutes.  His norm :)

Sweet baby!

Oh yeah, we also kicked him out of our room officially!  He spent the first night in his room last night and slept just like he normally does, so no big adjustment! Thank goodness!!!

Laughing Liam

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Cereal and Cherry Blossoms

So this happy little boy who is standing up against the table (slightly assisted) had his first attempt at cereal!

Here he is in preparation. Spoon in hand and drool flowing.

1st bite!

The cereal was pretty liquidy but that is how the instructions said to do it for the first feeding.  It made it VERY difficult with a spoon.

He seemed to enjoy it somewhat.

I just loved his face here.

On Saturday I had to go into DC to pick up my race number.  It was cold weather and rainy as usual. On a good note though we missed each storm by seconds!  We missed the first of it because we were inside a restaurant eating.  Then I really wanted to go by the waterfront and enjoy part of the Cherry Blossom Festival.  Right when we got out of the car it stopped raining :)  I asked Chris if he wanted to carry Liam or me.  He wanted too, I guess he didn't realize I would be taking his picture over and over!

Then I made Chris stand next to the Beaver with Liam and his mardi-gras beads!

As we were walking we saw this house boat!  It was actually shaped as a house!

Then we saw this much more fancy house boat.  I am not sure how well they do out in the water.

Here is a cute picture of my handsome lil guy

Here he is with the Cherry Blossoms

Family Photo

Just a sweet looking picture Chris took.

Once we finished our adventure on Saturday and got in the car it started HAILING!  Yup we just missed the storm again.  Thank goodness. 

On Sunday was the 10 Mile Cherry Blossom race.  There were about 9 nurses that did it.  Unfortunately, we did not plan well and didn't meet up with everyone.  I started out with 2 other nurses but didn't have my camera at that time.  So here is a picture of the girls I ran with the whole way.

Sarah, Kim, and Me

It was the worst race of my life.  I had to stop and pop my back twice and then at the 7 1/2 mile mark my back was done.  It hurt so bad I was forced to alternate running and walking the last 2 miles.   I have never been in such pain, but I guess that is what I get for not training at all :(  Afterwards Chris, Liam, and I were going to go walk around and enjoy the Cherry Blossoms but the wind picked up and it got cold so we went back to the Natural History Museum instead and checked out this beauty...

The Hope Diamond.  

Of course today was beautiful though! So Liam got to wear this sweet outfit.

Play Mat Annihilation

Last night Chris and I went back to the house we had our birth class at to tell our birth story to the newest class.  It was nice to see some of the people we were in the class with and hear their stories and meet their little ones.

Kim holding Liam, (she left her little boy with grandma and her husband arrived after the pictures) then Diane, Paige, and her husband, Chris and me.  This was about half our class.

I think Liam's face is priceless here.  Liam and Paige are about 25 days apart.  Kim cracked me up when she told her story.  She apparently loved sitting in the bath and her midwife made her get out and walk around to try and get her water to break.  Apparently, she had a contraction "ON LAND" and said it was much worse than in the water.  Diane's husband described contractions like being in a boxing ring.  She is in fighting and when the contraction stops she gets in the corner and gets a little water before she had to go back in and fight.  I would describe it more as drowning because my contractions came so fast I barely had a chance to breath.  Anyway, it was fun hearing the stories.

Now then, this boy got a new play mat.  Why?  Well, here is a picture of how Liam starts out on his current play mat.

One second later he has it pulled down over his head 

And two seconds after that he has officially karate chopped it.  Then he looks up at me like "Now what should I play with mom?"

So we headed to Babies-R-Us and got him this new play mat that is much more difficult for him to destroy. He seems to really like it and has more room to roll around.

This is his "Mom you are disturbing my play time" look

Plus it has a mirror that he can stare into during tummy time. He digs it.

Fun Filled Weekend

This weekend was a roller coaster, but before I get started on that check out our boy in his sweet outfit on Thursday.

He loves that his mom is a nurse :)

I had to put him in it before I forgot and then he out grows it!

Now then back to the weekend.  Liam still had a rough time on Saturday morning but seemed to do better in the afternoon.  My aunt, uncle, and little cousin were in town so I was glad he seemed a little better because we headed to the zoo that afternoon. Before the festivities this little man got a bath :)  This picture is for Geoff and Beth.  They got him this cute little frog bathrobe.

He loves it!

We had a good time at the zoo.  Most of the animals were inside because it was a little chilly.  Emma, my cousin seemed to enjoy it. Here is the Orangutan that was apparently kissing the glass at times.

Here is a cool little chameleon.

Creepy turtle

This is a very hungry tiger.  He was pacing by the door and roaring very loudly.

Liam enjoyed him.

Chris took about a billion more pictures of the animals, I only posted a few.  If you would like to see the rest I will direct you to shutterfly.  Here are Emma and Liam at dinner after our eventful day at the zoo.

The next day we headed to the Natural History Museum.  We tried to stay inside since it SNOWED.  It was just a light dusting but it still angered me. Anyway, the museum was pretty awesome and we are going to have to go back so we can see everything.  Here are dad and Liam standing next to a brown bear.

The we headed to the Ocean portion and people had knitted this huge contraption to look like coral.  It was really neat.

Then we said Hi to Dori and Nemo.

Liam got his picture taken with a Giant whale.

Finally we ended our day back at home and ate some pizza.  Here is a family photo with Emma.

Lastly, Liam with Uncle John, Emma and Aunt Suzanne. 

We had a good weekend.  Liam also learned to become very vocal this weekend.  We are attributing it to his screaming after his shots and now he knows he has vocal cords.  He also has a cold that he most likely caught from Chris with this horrid cough but he is back to his smiley self today!  Thank goodness!!

4 Months old

Our sweet little boy turned 4 months old! I still can't believe how fast it is going.  He loves to play with his toys (he especially still loves his little frog) and it is so fun to watch him concentrate on holding them and grabbing them.  He also follows us around the room without letting us out of his sight.  His new favorite activity is drooling and sticking whatever he can in his mouth (toys, his hands, his feet, our hands, etc).  He is napping better during the day, I can usually get him to sleep for a couple of hours in the late morning no problem.  

Sweet boy

He loves to grab his feet

So happy

Our angel baby

Gotta love that smile

Overalls! And a hand in the mouth

Love him

Sitting up

He's the greatest

Big smiles and a little drool (there are often large quantities of drool)

Now then, today was the dreaded 4 month appointment. He is still long and skinny.  The pediatrician wants to keep an eye on his weight :(  Even though this kid eats all the time!  He also still has a small head but she is not worried because developmentally he is doing great.  He LOVED kicking on the paper again at the office, but then came the shots.  The first one didn't phase him but the next three did.  He turned BRIGHT red and screamed at the top of his lungs.  Awesome.  Once we got home he slept for about 3 1/2 hours but then he woke up.  He screamed for about an hour and half and it didn't matter what I did nothing mad him happy.  Finally, I called the pediatricians' office they gave a few more ideas and said if he was still screaming after 2 more hours to call them back.  So Liam and I went on a walk outside, it calmed him down and eventually he fell asleep for a few.  Needless to say I called out from work because I didn't get to sleep and he is still very upset as I type this.  My poor baby boy :(