Boston Part 1

After getting no sleep due to the flood we flew out of DC at 6:30 am to arrive in Boston at 8:30 in the morning. We immediatley began touring the city. We drove to Boston Common where a kind lad took a family photo for us.

Then we came across the CUTEST park EVER! I fell in love instantly. It had little frog statues everywhere. We let Liam run around and play a little since he had been restricted in the plane and car.

Picture with the fishing frog!

Then we jumped on a tour bus we could hop on and off of until we met up with Lauren and Kyle that evening. Here is the State House where we started our tour.

Boston Skyline with sailboats tied down in the middle of the water. I guess you have to swim out to your boat! HA!

Bunker Hill (Actually Breed's Hill is where the battle really took place according to the harbor cruise boat captain)

Cool Bridge (Probably not the real name of the bridge, but we were only there for a weekend, so you don't get a geographically accurate picture tour)

Liam looking sweet with the sea breeze blowing through his locks.

Daddy and Liam pretending to shoot off canons.

U.S.S. Constitution, we toured it and it was pretty cool.

Liam chilling on the tour bus

Yes, we ate lunch here. We were official tourists!

Trinity Church

Fenway Park. It doesn't even really look like a ball park from the outside, besides these statues.

Liam on his first carousel ride

He wasn't that thrilled, but mom thought it was great and almost started crying thinking about how big her boy is getting!

The Public Garden. It was beautiful and it makes me think of Parent Trap-the original of course!

Liam and daddy playing by the water and watching ducks.

Make Way for Ducklings statue. Based on this book. Alex and Tim actually bought Liam this book and they are the reason we were in Boston for their big day!

He loved the ducklings

Lauren met us at the park and we headed back to her and Kyle's place. We hung out for a while and then headed out to dinner. It was great seeing them!

We even put Kyle to work! Liam loved Kyle and kept making little faces at him. He eventually started to fall asleep on him too.

We eventually made our way to the hotel around 10PM and CRASHED! It was an eventful day but very enjoyable! Tomorrow Boston Part 2!

3rd Time is a Charm?

On Thursday night Chris and I were packing for Boston. Chris headed down to the basement to get the suitcases and my birthday gift he had been hiding down there. Eventually, he came back up stairs, sat me down on the bed, and said the basement has FLOODED! Are you kidding me!?!? Yup, it's true and it is by far the worst it has flooded. Apparently, 40 units in the complex flooded. Stupid Lee and all your rain!

Liam and I checked out run by our house earlier in the day. It was like a river! No way was I going to walk in that water this time! We have never seen the water so high since we have lived here. We could have done some white-water rafting down it! Someone had put up caution tape to keep people out.

It was probably about 7-8 feet deep! I'm just glad it is done raining. Later that night it was even worse! Probably, another foot deeper.

The little hole in the bottom of the brick was the culprit. By the time we finished moving stuff we had about 2-3 inches of water!

Liam having fun.

By the time we finished only one small corner of the basement was dry.

Liam enjoyed the flood though. He was just happy to run around in the water!

Chris and I worked frantically to get all the furniture upstairs. Luckily, Tammy and her friend Matt came over and helped. Tammy entertained Liam for us :) We got to bed about midnight and woke up at 4am so we could finish packing and catch our flight! What a way to start the weekend!

This Boy Lately...

Loves to pull out all the pots and pans

and drag them around the house

He still loves the dishwasher.

When he gets tired he enjoys climbing on you and then laying down like so...

He loves going to the park

attending baseball games

Hanging with the boys

enjoys climbing in his carseat

and his stroller of course

He has also started to reach for the door handle.  He knows it leads outside.

Today he really wanted to go outside but it has been raining the past two days.

So he sat like this and watched the rain.

1st Restaurant Meal

On Saturday night we all went out to eat.  We decided to let Liam have his first meal at a restaurant, Mac and Cheese.  I think he would have dove in face first if I left the plate in front of him.

He LOVED it and was so excited while eating.  Although this picture doesn't exactly show it.

Afterwards, he relaxed on mom with a very full belly!

Sorry the pictures aren't the best.  We didn't have the camera and had to use Chris's phone.

9 Month Pictures

Here are Liam's 9 month pictures for your enjoyment!  He was really not in the mood to smile.  He just wanted to stare at the lady and her huge camera.

Trying to escape

Showing that he is 9 months!

Love this one

Our scholar

Finally a little grin!