Author: Shannon

Feeding Liam has never been an easy thing–so I’m not entirely sure why I thought that he’d take to eating solids easily.  He didn’t.  For about a month we’d been trying to feed him rice cereal.  The result of this was pursed lips and screaming (until I tried to put the spoon close to his open mouth, he realized what was happening, and promptly pursed his lips again).  We have video, but uploading that is a pain so this picture will have to suffice:

Thankfully–after more than a month of trying (and switching from rice cereal to sweet potatoes) we had success (please pardon the red eye):

The first day we tried sweet potatoes he tolerated them (which was a vast improvement over rice cereal) and finished 1/3 of a container.  The second day he wasn’t so sure when we started out but by the end had finished an entire container and was popping his mouth open like a baby bird after each bite (and getting very angry when I didn’t open the new container fast enough).  By the third day (which is when I took the picture above) he ate an entire container without any hesitation and learned how to spit sweet potatoes far enough to hit me with them.  At first I was irritated that there was so much food everywhere.  Then he laughed after each spit.  I laughed with him.  We’re in big trouble.

If you made it to the end of this post I’ll reward you with a link to the new SmugMug gallery:  Here it is.

Happy 4th!

Liam’s growing and learning more every day.  He’s recently learned to sit:

He’s also cutting two teeth and pooped in the bath for the first time.  I don’t have pictures of the teeth yet, as he’s pretty uncooperative about me looking inside his mouth and I didn’t take a picture of the bath poop because, well, it’s poop…

We’ve also had the chance to hang out with all sorts of family members lately.

Here he is with Mo and Greatmama (Shannon’s grandmothers):

And here he is with Pok, Granddaddy, and Mom:

He’s also learning to pull up on the sides of his crib, which has resulted in the removal of the bumper, the zippy zoo, and the mobile (since he tried to pull up on that, too).  It now looks like baby jail–which I guess it sort of is…I don’t have any pictures of that yet, but I’m sure I will soon.

Hopefully updates will be more frequent since my last day of paid work at CCW is on Monday and I’ll have a bit more time to post here.  Hope all is well with everyone out there in internetland.

Here’s a picture that will serve as an ode to my parents’ kitchen, which is soon to be no more.  It will be rebuilt bigger and better but I’m glad that I have a picture of Liam being bathed in the same sink in which Sarah and I were bathed before it’s gone.