more and more new things!

oh, so many new talents. we have been working with liam on sign language. his favorite sign is "more" because he gets more food. next is "milk" because when he's thirsty, he wants his milk! "eat" is good because he says that when he feeds his food to his dogs and they get to eat. yesterday he signed "water" for the first time too. he is exceptionally brilliant, if i do say so myself.

he is also very verbal, talking up a storm all the time. his new favorite word to say is flyball, which he got to say a lot this past weekend at the tournament. he behaved himself very well, saying hi to lots of different friends while we were busy running the tournament. he is OBSESSED with flyball boxes - i think he wants to be a boxloader like his dad and his friend jeff.

he is still a dancing fool, along with a kissing fool, considering he kissed his little girlfriend at the sitter's today!

i will see what i can do about getting a picture uploaded soon.

trip to the zoo!

even though bill and i apparently ate some bad food at the zoo, we had fun while we were there on sunday. it was liam's first trip there, and we think he really enjoyed it. of course, we also think that he thought - look, a dog with a long neck; look, a dog with a long nose; look, a dog with long legs; look, a dog that can swim. :)

he did a lot of pointing to the animals and "talking" about them. we'll definitely have to go back again soon and try to make it into the children's zoo next time.

liam has turned into a dancing and kissing fool too! he loves to give kisses - even sometimes his idea! and he dances all the time - sometimes without music. but pretty much every time he hears music, he wants to dance. we'll work on the lack of rhythm later. :)

happy birthday liffey!

happy birthday to liam's "big sister" liffey. she is 7 yrs old today.

i'll write more about our fun weekend later. ate some not good food i think....

1 yr check up

after a few scheduling problems, liam finally made it to his 1 yr pediatrician appt. he is 21 lbs 6 oz and 29 1/2 inch long, putting him in the 25%ile for both height and weight. he is a bit of a runt, but then again, so am i. :) he was 50%ile for head circum., proving that he is a genious! ha.

he has been busy lately - we went to a flyball tournament the first weekend in june. we went to the baseball game on father's day. it was hotter than we could imagine, but liam didn't seem to mind at all. i did, however. :) we went to a big family reunion on bill's side of the family. it was fun to meet so much extended family and hear more family stories.

more plans coming up for the summer: more flyball, camping with friends and a week long camping trip with the 5 of us in the camper. looking forward to it!

new sitter

liam started at a new sitter this past week. he is around boy's close to his own age and LOVES it. he is doing things (like eating more big boy types of food) that he sees the other boys doing and playing with all sorts of fun toys. the new sitter just kept saying - he's so smart and so cute (well, let's just state the obvious here.) :)

i took it as a good sign when i went to pick him up the first day, and, when i walked in the door, he smiled at me and went right back to playing. i hope things continue to go well.

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!