Category: Pictures

Yesterday morning, Liam made a new friend.  The story of this meeting goes something like this…

Liam crawls under the breakfast table where his mother and grandfather are eating breakfast.

Liam reaches the other side of the table where there is a game of Scrabble and a dictionary in a pile on the floor.

Liam’s mother knows that these are the only things on the floor on the other side of the table, but decides to stand up and make absolutely sure there’s nothing Liam can eat.

Liam’s mother stands up and sees Liam playing with his new friend and screams and jumps around like a little girl.

Liam’s grandfather nearly knocks down two chairs trying to get to Liam as his mother is too busy screaming and hopping up and down.

Liam’s grandfather gets Liam but fails to reach Liam’s new friend.

Liam’s new friend changes course and goes towards Liam’s mother, which only makes her scream more shrilly and jump higher.

Liam’s grandfather nearly throws Liam at his mother as he chases Liam’s new friend.

Liam learns a hard life lesson from his new friend as Liam’s grandfather smashes his friend to bits.

Liam’s mother stops screaming and decides that a reenactment is just the thing:

Here’s a general pictorial roundup of the things we’ve captured so far.

A rare shot of Liam sleeping on the ride down:

A rare shot of Liam in a good mood on the ride down:

Just after being released from his car seat prison:

Trying on his new hat:

Eating like a champ (during the time we’ve been here he’s gone from eating a little bit at one meal regularly to eating a lot at three meals…I just hope all the clothes we just bought him will fit!):

Exhibiting his newfound crawling prowess:

Just being cute in general (and showing off what happens to very sensitive skin when sunscreen is applied over and over…):

My favorite close-up since getting the new camera:

Another cute close-up:

First ice cream experience (you can’t tell from the picture, but he really enjoyed it):

With Mo, Mom, & Dad outside Big Olaf’s (Granny would be proud!):

With Granddaddy outside the Beach Bazaar:

Oh, no! Are they putting me in this thing again?

Roughhousing with Daddy and Mama:

Little baby, big balloon:

Happy 85th birthday, Mo!

First haircut (he hated it):

Well–I think that’s it for now. I probably won’t have time to post again until we’re home and Matt can help with Liam, but we’ll see!

Today Liam had a few firsts:

• First time in the pool
• First time at the beach
• First time in the ocean
• First time in the Gulf of Mexico
• First time touching/tasting sand

Here are a few pictures (click to enlarge):

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.