Randomness

About 3-4 weeks ago Liam decided he was done taking 2 naps a day.  This stressed me out BIG-time, I realized there was NO way I could stay awake until 12-1pm after working overnight.  Luckily, Maggie (whose husband Ghani works with Chris) said she would be willing to come watch Liam on the mornings I come home from work.  She is my lifesaver!  She and Laith (4 months) come and play with Liam from about 8:30-11:30am while I get to sleep.  I don't know if she will ever truly understand how grateful I am for her help.

Liam loves her.  He is wearing Laith's hat here.

She is wonderful and it is so nice to know Liam is in great hands!

Here is the little monkey playing with a bowl on his head.  He has really let his personality shine through lately.

He likes to wear my sunglasses when given the chance.  He thinks he is pretty cool.

On Saturday we went out for a little walk.  Liam sported his new shades.

He kept them on the whole time.

Someone dropped this little contraption off at the park.  It is awesome because it is perfect Liam size.  I don't have to worry about him falling too far.

Liam is way into climbing lately and has easily figured out how to get on his rocking chair.  Usually he tries to stand and grab stuff off of his dresser and then he gets very angry when we take him down, but the other day he just sat nicely reading his book.

Golf Extraordinaire

Liam loves his little golf clubs from Uncle Mike and Aunt Trudi.  He likes to bang everything in sight.  Here he is showing off his skills. 

All Aboard!

This boy is loving his train lately.  He likes to put the letters in the slot and watch them shoot into the caboose. He has also been trying really hard to place the blocks in the front of the train, but gets them upside down, or just not perfect enough.  He likes to sit on it too, hoping one of his parents will push him around.

He performs cool tricks on it.

Super proud of himself!

He thinks he is big stuff.

So Big!

Bruiser

I know, I know it has been a few days and you miss us terribly, but there haven't been too many exciting things happening. Chris and Liam came up with a new game called "Stand in the Hand"  Liam LOVES it!

Here he is standing on his slide, staring out the window in hopes of going outside.  It has been a little on the cold side though.

It snowed a little one day last week and we let Liam run in it.  He really wasn't interested and would head right back to the cement path.  He must be my son.

He has also been sitting on his slide like so...

Then he makes a fake cry face and acts like he is stuck.  Though he can easily get himself out.

The other morning I went to get Liam out of his crib and he became overly excited and bashed his head into his crib railing.  He gave his left eye a nice purple color.

It is hard to tell in these pictures, but it was pretty bad for about an hour.  After that it just looked like a red scratch.

Chatter Box

This morning Liam was FULL of energy.  He was chattering up a storm.  I decided to film his madness and so glad I did because all of the sudden he added a little shimmy to all his jibber-jabber.  I was cracking up.

Family Pics

We had some family pictures done by one of Matt's friends while we were home.  There was a little lighting issue but we got a couple good ones.

Our little family

Liam did not enjoy being held down while being outside for pictures.  He wanted to run free!

My hubby and me

The kids

Siblings

Liam sprinting away

The Last 2 Days

As I mentioned in a previous post, the weather was pretty awesome while we were home.  We spent a lot of time outside and on Saturday decided was another day for the park.

Liam enjoyed swinging.

And so did Aunt Sadie and Grandma.

We went to a park that was much too big for Liam's age but he still conquered it.

On Sunday night we ate dinner at the Cassons' with Bob.  Liam was getting a little tired and cranky.  

We went to my parents house after dinner to say our good-byes.  Liam played Scrabble with Uncle Matt.

The towheads posed for a picture.

Liam showed Grandma and Uncle Matt the fan.

Then he attacked Sadie.

Sadie didn't think we were going to say good-bye because originally the plan was to do it in the morning.  It was good because she didn't think about it.  Then we said good-bye and she survived! Then we went back to the Casson's, packed up, went to bed, and left for Vegas in the AM.  I clearly forgot to get some last pictures of Liam with G&G Casson.  Next time I will do better!

P.S.- On our return flight from Las Vegas to Alexandria we sat behind a little girl, probably about three or four years old, who was having an existential crisis.  She spent the majority of the flight crying and saying things like, "I want to stay just the way I am, I don't want to die!"  She was sitting next to her dad, who was pretty much completely unable to comfort her, and her mom and sister were toward the back of the plane (this has to do with US Airways' inability to properly seat people who are flying together, and is part of the reason we will be avoiding that airline if at all possible in the future, but I digress).  The only thing that distracted here for a while was her dad trying to teach her angry birds on his phone.  It worked for a while, but eventually she started crying again.  Her dad must have been talking about getting to be with God when you die or something like that when trying to comfort her earlier because she said, "I don't like God, I wanna get rid of him!"  We felt bad for her, but it was really kind of funny, too.