Ten Months

Liam is 10 months old. I know I say this every time but I swear time speeds up when you have kids because this year has flown by as I count each month of my babies life! He is such a joy to be around. He is so fun and smiley and happy and loving. He is so busy and crawling everywhere and exploring everything. This last month has been so fun with all the holidays. Arizona for Thanksgiving was a blast and he had so much fun meeting all his cousins and playing with them. He was so well behaved too! With December upon us, we have decorated the house, put up our tree and ornaments and Liam is very good with the tree. He does like to pull on one ornament quite a bit but he is pretty good. He absolutely loves the tree topper we got. It is a star that is lit up and he just stares at it all the time. He is just fascinated with all the lights. He also likes cords so I am trying to hide all of those with presents, even some empty wrapped boxes, if that is what it takes.

Family Photos

I wanted to snag some photos of the first time professionally...and we just got them back a while ago and we have some real winners!!! Liam is seriously too adorable...I can't even stand it. He had just woken up from a nap so there weren't as many big smiles as we are used to, and he just loves the camera, which totally distracts him from being his normal fun self. He just stares right at the fancy camera, and every now and again you catch him smiling when you do something silly for him! Overall, I was really happy with the pictures and both Tadd and I don't look half bad either. Tadd just lost 20 lbs about in a weight loss challenge so he looks fantastic. And I am in the works, but my face doesn't look half bad. I think I am going to use some of these pictures around our house as well as use them for our very first Christmas card. I am seriously enjoying every new experience as a family of three!!!

Thanksgiving

This year we had Thanksgiving in Arizona with Tadd's family. It was a full house!!! Now, every sibling in the family has at least one kid (we were the last ones holding out-saving the best for last ;) We were able to stay with his brother and sister in law and their two kids. They always save a room for us...and this year, they had all the goodies that we needed for Liam including a car seat, stroller, and crib. Can you believe that...that saved us some serious packing! We arrived on Wednesday evening and headed straight to Nick's house to get some shut eye before Thanksgiving day. On Thanksgiving we all hung out at the house while the food was cooking. All the kids were hanging together. Dinner turned out really good!We had all the traditional dishes including turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, homemade cranberries and then a few desserts! Yikes... Friday after Thanksgiving we decided to go to a bounce house to burn some holiday calories. We had such a blast jumping around, as did the kids, even Liam had his fair share of bouncing!

Saturday we all went out to breakfast and ate more...I think that is what the Thanksgiving theme is...Eat as much as possible and then go on a diet. The rest of the day Liam and I chilled at the house and took a nice long nap while the rest went to an indoor park with lots of slides and things to climb on. Saturday night we were also able to meet up with Tadd's high school friends and their two kids. We enjoyed some pizza and some quality time catching up.

Sunday we went to church with the family and then headed back to the house for a lighter dinner. Monday was our last day and we ended up eating at Pita Jungle which I miss from Arizona. We also stopped at Ritas for a little treat which was delicious! Then mexican food for dinner before we jammed to the airport for our flight home. We got home around 10pm and everyone was ready for bed...but not before I unpacked and got everything ready for Tuesday (my day off, thankfully). We had a really fun time with all the family and nieces and nephews.

Photo Update

 

Eight...and Nine Months While I'm Here

My perfect little son...is not so little anymore and is 8.5 months old!!! He is so handsome and is such a joy to be around. He is a crawling machine, and wants to pull up on everything within his reach. He loves holding onto your fingers and walking around the house. He loves cheerios and pretty much any food you offer him, however he prefers it at room temperature than from out of the fridge. He has been improving with his sleeping! He doesn't eat in the middle of the night anymore...Success! He still wakes up a bit, but usually with a little TLC...he gets cozy again in his crib. He takes two 1.5 hr naps during the day most of the time! Liam loves people. He loves playing and getting tickled. He loves climbing up my parents step in their kitchen, over and over! When in the car I have to sing to him the whole way home if he is in the back by himself because it is dark and he is lonely! He settles right down when I sing to him. He definitely knows when you are in the house and you walk away. He will cry until he sees your face again! Kinda makes you feel good that he misses you. I am constantly learning new things with Liam! As soon as I think I got it down...it changes. I guess that is what Parenthood is all about. Can't imagine life without Liam!

Liam's 9 month check-up is the second week of November and I am looking forward to find out his stats and see how he is growing!

More firsts completed

Liam met his other great grandma a few weeks ago! Great Grandma Dorothy and great aunt Sue and uncle Tim. The very first great grandchild on my moms side! They were in town for a week and we got to spend some quality time together through out the week. We played and all stopped and stared at Liam most of the day! We even went to old town Sacramento and had Liam try his first lollipop and grabbed some lunch! It was a fun week with family in town!

Another fun activity we have been doing is swim lessons! I signed us up for parent-tot swim lessons at swim otter swim! It is a four week program and we get to do fun water activities  for 30 minutes every Friday morning! It has seriously been so fun! Liam has just as much fun as I do too, I think. He splashes like crazy and smiles and never cries! He looks around and doesn't even mind going under water! 

Other fun (kinda) firsts- trying new foods like squash, guacamole, and yogurt! He loves food! And he opens wide when he is ready for his next bite! 

He is scooting/crawling- he can get from point A to point B. Not necessarily knee and opposite hand but belly and knees and feet, anyway he can, he will get to his final goal! It is adorable and so fun to watch him get where he wants to be! 

He is also so energetic! He jumps and rolls and hollers for attention! He loves people! He is a smiling machine! The cutest little face I've ever seen!!!!! 

We love our perfect little Liam! Don't know what we did without him!

7 months old

My 5lb 4oz newborn is 7 months old now! And probably like 20 lbs!!! He smiles like crazy! He is scooting around and can pull himself in circles. He loves to cuddle and loves kisses or just slobbering on your face! He loves his jumper and any toy he can grab and slobber on! He is getting more and more hair and it is kind of curling in the back. He is really learning to use his fingers individually...and he will watch his hands sometimes just to see what they can do! Liam loves being outside. He is so calm when we go on walks or just hang outside. Liam has brought so much happiness to our family, don't know what we did without him!!! Love our little nugget!