6 months old!!

yesterday, liam turned 6 months old! what a big boy. he has 2 teeth, he can crawl, he can play with his toys and he can use his voice for fun things.

he had a big weekend leading up to that day. on thanksgiving we went to great aunt dot's house. he had lots of family telling him how handsome he is. we also did some "adoption education" with some friends of family members. i guess this is something that we will always be doing that fertiles never, ever think of.

thursday night we left for a weekend in branson with both sets of liam's grandparents and his aunt, uncle and cousins. he did extremely well in the car all weekend and just went along with the flow. he got to go shopping in the outlet malls and ride in a boat for the first time! liam, bill, liffey, lincoln and i all stayed in the camper, which was interesting the first night when it got down to about 14 degrees. but the campsite was nice, and we had a spot right by the river. i had fun finally being able to shop for my baby in branson. what a difference a year makes. that trip last year we were losing our triplet cycle, which was our last hope of ever having biological children.

looking forward to our court date to finalize the adoption!

fun at flyball!

liam had another exciting weekend. this weekend we had a flyball tournament close to home. liam LOVES to see all his friends there, and he seems to like watching the dogs run! and of course, he loves to hear how handsome he is, which is what he hears all weekend from his friends. :) we are very lucky that he is so laid back and will go visiting from person to person while our teams are running.

and a little brag - liffey ran her fastest time ever - a 6.5 second heat! i am very, VERY proud of her.

an exciting weekend

looks like liam's other tooth just couldn't stand it, and it has started to pop through! so hopefully we will have two handsome teeth in the next few days.

liam had a fun day yesterday. we went geocaching (www.geocaching.com), and the WHOLE family went. liffey and lincoln are old pros at it. this was liam's first trip. he seemed to enjoy himself, mostly because he was in his stroller and outside. we found several caches (and didn't find 2 of them!) hopefully as liam gets older, he will be more helpful finding them than he was yesterday. :)

could it be? maybe??

after much speculation over the last month+, it looks like liam may be getting his first tooth. it is still even with his gum line, but there is a white line there now. i could feel it last night while liam was eating his carrots (carrots are GOOD!) and thought i saw something. it was definitely more pronounced this morning. so we will see!

he is EXTREMELY good at blowing raspberries after our instructional session the other night. he is starting to experiment with intonations in his babbling, along with trying different places of articulation (making different sounds, for those of you not in speech and hearing sciences.) :)

will be checking the tooth progress this evening!!

rocking and rolling

well, he's been rolling for quite a while, but liam's newest trick is to get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. he can move around on the floor already, so crawling is not too far into our future!

liam is enjoying his food more and more. he ate half a jar of green beans last night, instead of his usual 1/3. i think we'll be adding more and more "food" to his diet over the next few weeks.

liam went bowling for his godmother's birthday this past friday. he seemed to enjoy the cosmic bowling the best, with all the lights flashing and moving. on sat., we went to watch bill help with a fire training class. liam got to see his dad all dressed out in his bunker gear, complete with air mask. bill looked at liam and said - LIAM, I AM YOUR FATHER - through the air mask, but liam was COMPLETELY unimpressed by bill's darth vader impersonation. oh well.

5 months old!

liam is 5 mo. old today. he seems to be enjoying his dinner of peas this week (visualize whirled peas.) :) i think we might try a fruit next. he also likes his new play yard that we set up for him - he can play on the floor with his toys without being kissed 27,000 times by the dogs. his favorite think to do, though, is play in his jumparoo. sometimes he looks like he's trying out for riverdance. it's pretty funny to watch.

liam got a very nice package in the mail from his birthfather yesterday. he managed to find a beanie baby with a "born on" date of liam's birthday! liam gave it a big hug when we took it out of the box.

liam also seems to like riding on my old rocking horse. he's still too short to ride on his own, but he holds onto the handles like a big boy while he rides. we do have the problem of wanting to chew on the rocking horse though.

he's been sleeping in his "big boy bed" for the last several nights and doesn't seem to mind. the monitor is on so we can hear him since he's not just outside our room anymore. we're trying to find a happy medium on the volume control though. :)

have a wonderful weekend everyone! thanks for reading.

new food!

liam has been busy again. we were in memphis this past weekend for the st. jude's showcase of dogs. liffey played flyball with her friends. i'm trying to teach liam how to call passes, but i think his little fingers are too short for anyone to see. :) he had a good time visiting with his friends. it's so sad that NO ONE loves him and no one wanted to hold him or tell him how handsome he is. he even had someone from another team ask me if her dog could come pet my baby. you read that right. her dog was very sweet and tried buttering me up so that she could take liam home with her. her owner promised to come get liam if he was ever sent to the pound. :o)

and liam finally got to try some new foods. he had his first vegetable last night - sweet potatoes. he really seemed to like it, at least much more than he liked his rice cereal and somewhat more than he liked his oatmeal. he still loves to take a bath, too.

liam has his first cough. it is very sad to hear, but we've done great to get this far before his first cold. he's been around a lot of people lately, so we knew it had to come eventually.

liam might be moving downstairs to his crib at night sometime soon. he's outgrowing his cradle (he can hold onto both sides at the same time when he's not swaddled.) watch this space.....

and yes, i know i need to get a new picture posted! his comb-over was cut so he looks much more handsome now.