Thursday, November 18, 2010

Walking in Memphis.....

Liam is walking!! It's official!! He is all over the place and within a week he acts like he has been walking for years.  It is truly incredible to think how babies master milestones and skills and within a few days they have improved leaps and bounds.  He had been taking steps to me and Jake for a while and the day he started walking I had been trying all day to get him to walk to me.  Jake got home from work and Liam always gets so happy to see Jake when he gets home!  Jake got down on the floor to see him and Liam just toddled right over to him, and then he did it again, and again....Clearly my efforts to get him to do it all day eventually paid off....I guess he was just waiting for his daddy to get home so both of us were there.  Here are some videos of him walking around.  Hope you enjoy!!!




While Liam has been waalking around, I have been working on some Christmas decorations.  My friend Nicole and her son Luca have been coming over the past 2 weeks and we have been having our "Christmas Craft Day" as we like to call it.  It is a nice because the boys kinda entertain each other and we just work around their schedule and it gives us time to have a hobby.  Here are a few things I have made! Hope you enjoy!!
This is still in progress but will be a card holder...

This is Liam's ornament that I bought for him.  Every year I am going to buy him a special ornament 

It was so sweet, warm, and fuzzy and just reminded me of him!

We both made these but Nicole's is different than mine. I found something similar in a pottery barn kids magazine and wanted to make my own version


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Red bird ornament

Christmas sign

Going to start doing this for all of our kids thanksgivings...their first thanksgiving
The brown is Liam's hand....I have a similar idea for Christmas that's really cute too!!


Friday, November 5, 2010

Liam turns one!!

Attempting to open his presents
Liam's first wagon ride
Happy 1st Birthday Liam!
It is so hard to believe that Liam is already one! The past year has been such a truly amazing year.  They say cherish every moment because they grow up so fast and they truly do. Liam has been a wonderful baby and we couldn't have been blessed with a more perfect little boy.  I think back to every one of his little milestones...smiling, rolling over, sitting up, holding his own bottle, laughing, crawling, and then all his little quirks in between. I really love him more and more each day.  I can't imagine what the next year will bring and what he will do.  



Liam's party was really amazing! I have to say a big THANK YOU to my mom, Jenny, Susan, and everyone else who helped make it happen.  I really appreciate my in laws letting us take over the house to have his birthday back home.    His cake was a lot of work and took numerous hours to make.  My mom and I work diligently to make it.  Thank you mom!! I was determined to make it because I got an estimate for someone to make it and they wanted $110.  Jenny helped with decorations, making cupcakes, loving on Liam, and made us an amazing video of Liam's first year of life!! It was the best present ever!! Liam got a ton of clothes, toys, a wagon, table and chairs and books. He was a very lucky boy and has taken on Jake's man room with all his toys.  Jake and Liam now share the "man room" it has become the Man/mini-man room.