more beautiful babies!

check out my friend sandi's blog. her beautiful daughter was born on may 26th (hmmm, that date sounds familiar....) :)
and another online friend gave birth to her daughter on tuesday, after about 200 weeks on bedrest (or so it seemed.) another beautiful little girlfriend for liam!

first birthday weekend

liam had a GREAT birthday weekend (and thanks to my friends who posted messages here!) his party saturday was lots of fun, even if the weather forecasters were completely wrong. liam had fun playing with his friends and loved his presents. it took a little while to really get him going on his cake, but he seemed to have a good time once he really tasted it.

on sunday, we took it easy, bought some flowers and a new little tikes slide and napped a lot. he LOVES the slide. loves to climb up one side and slide down the other. he even tried to say geronimo when he went down the slide!

on his actual birthday, his grandpa, 2 grandmas, aunt, uncle and cousins came over to celebrate with him. he loves hanging out with his cousins! (who teach him things like using pots and pans as drums.) he also got a quick call from his birthmother, who sang happy birthday to him while i chased him around the kitchen with the phone.

how lucky we are to have liam in our family!

1 yr ago monday....

at 5am, we got a call from liam's birthfather was "liam's on his way!" we rushed to get out of the house and on our way!! we got a call at about 6:30am that liam was born at 5:45 with apgar scores of 6 and 8. the scores concerned me a bit, but they had gone up, so that was a good sign. we got to the hospital by about 10am. after watching him there for a bit, he was transferred to the NICU at a bigger hospital. he spent 5 days there, just being cranky. :) (i would be too if i wasn't allowed to eat and had things shoved up my nose, down my throat and in my arm!)

we were so greatful for the ronald mcdonald house. what a wonderful thing to have them there.

happy first birthday baby boy!! i hope our first birthday/adoption finalization party tomorrow will be lots of fun.

1 yr ago today

we got the call that would change our lives. i was testing a patient when my cell phone rang. i saw it was our s/w and finished the test as fast as i could so that i could call her back. after getting the info on liam's birthparents, i called bill. he was in his truck and almost drove off the road. then i told my friends here at work - the first was a fellow adoptive mom. we called our s/w back that night and accepted the match.

another new link

i just added another friend's adoption blog link. tammy also went through the all the hoops there are to go through to become a mom.

mother's day was fun. we went camping and had a good time. liam gave me a shirt that says - i love my mom, with a picture of one of his cheesy smiles on it. :) while we were gone, we got veyr nice phone calls from both his birthfather and birthmother wishing me a happy mother's day!

mother's day

this is not my first mother's day. it is my 3rd. my 1st two were spent without a living child. his name was frederick, and he watches over us. i miss him very much and thank him for finding liam. last mother's day was just days before we found out that liam's birthparents had picked us to be his parents. i have already thanked his birthmother for making this mother's day so very different from the last two.

and to all my friends who went through infertility to become mothers and all my friends who are still waiting, i will be thinking of all of you this weekend especially.

new summer look!

5 yrs ago

yesterday actually (i was too busy to post yesterday.)
the tornado/straight line winds hit our home and area. definitely something we will never forget.

not 6 teeth....

we found 2 molars on sat. morning that have obviously been there for at least a few weeks! so the tooth count is up to 8!

and as of now, his words are liffey, lincoln, doggie, captain (his godmother's dog) and bye bye. bye bye has the hand action to go with it, but he doesn't really know that it means bye yet. he just repeats it and does the hand action. usually both hands at the same time!

one year ago today...

we were told by our s/w that we were officially in waiting to be matched. i hunkered down for my 6-12 month wait. :o)

liam's advice for the day

you can pick your mom. you can pick your nose. you can't pick your mom's nose.