all i want for christmas...

liam is working on his 2 front teeth! they started showing the friday before xmas.

we had a busy weekend last weekend - going to bill's family's party, going to my parents' house on xmas eve to meet liam's uncle chris and his girlfriend ani. then back up to bill's parents' house xmas day and back to my parents' house that afternoon. but liam got lots of toys and loves to play with them. he likes the ones he can stand up with!

the following day we went to the family NHL game. liam actually WATCHED the game (until he fell asleep.) i had a hard time feeding him when all he wanted to do was watch the game. and listen to the beer man, but i told him no beer, in case he has to drive home. :)

we also heard from liam's birthmother, and she is doing well, which is always great to hear!

first snow!

liam had another busy weekend. friday afternoon was our visit with parents as teachers. liam appears to be on track developmentally in all areas. we filled out the health hx info too, which is interesting to have to look up my son's health hx in a file, but thank goodness his birthparents were generous enough to give us copies of all their paperwork so we would have so much information for liam. friday night was xmas shopping, and liam did a fine job picking out lots of things for everyone!

sat. we got together with our friends from my infertility support group. liam got to meet baby julia for the first time. he thinks julia is very pretty. and he had fun playing on the floor with landon, lily and olivia. i think he likes seeing people his own size.

sat. night we drove home in the snow, and when bill got home sunday morning, we went sledding in the front yard. liam seemed to enjoy it, even when he did a face plant in the snow. he came up laughing! definitely his father's son.

sunday night we went out with landon and his family to celebrate both boys' adoptions being finalized. it's nice for them both to officially and legally be home.

hope you enjoy the pictures! (excuse the runny nose!)

it's FINAL

monday was a big day for our family. we drove to columbia, through the freezing rain and ice, to finalize liam's adoption. i got extremely car sick, and it rained the first 2 hrs of the drive. not a GREAT time, but we made it. got to see bill's cousin tyler. we changed clothes there (into our "nice" outfits, which is funny because bill had to borrow pants from tyler when we were there for TPR.) next we stopped by the NICU to see one of liam's former nurses. she was happy to see him and how well he is doing.

court was fine. we both raised our right hands and sat on the witness stand. liam was more impressed with banging on the table. we took pictures with the 3 of us; steve, our lawyer; the judge and the guardian ad lidem (sp?) i tried to get them uploaded today, but i have the wrong cable. all my friends here at work say they are very nice pictures though. :)

we got the decree saying that we are his legal parents and that his name has been legally changed (only his last name changed.) apparently, it will be several months while the state gov't workers laboriously type up the new birth certificate. oh well.

6 month check up

liam had his 6 mo. pediatrician appt. this past friday. he is 17lbs 13 oz and 26 inches long. he was 25%ile for height and 50%ile for weight. he seems to fluctuate between 25/30%ile then back up to 50%ile on height. so my guess is that at his next appt he will be back up at 50%ile. he seems to be doing very well overall. the dr. said his head shaking trick is just that - something he figured out he could do. my guess is that it makes him a little dizzy, and he likes that. he handled his shots like a pro again - crying until he realized the nurse was a pretty girl. :)

after that, we made a trip to grandpa ken's office where liam had quite a bit of attention. we also went shopping at the dreaded babies r us and got the baby gates for the house. bill installed them on saturday. i put in all the annoying electrical outlet covers. (bill says he hates safety, mr. fireman that he is.)

liam has also moved onto stage 2 foods, which includes meat. bill is happy that liam is a carnivore now (he's never gotten over lincoln loving canned pumpkin.)

everyone check out our agency website. the blog entry for this past week was about a comment i made to our social worker. she summarized my feelings well.