What's been going on lately....

Where has time gone, it's already Feburary and I haven't updated our blog.  Liam is keeping Jake and I quite busy lately.  He is in to EVERYTHING! I literally mean everything he can get into he does.  We have placed a lock on kitchen cabinets and the fridge and I am not sure what we will be locking next.  Liam has decided he likes to climb everything.  He started clmibing in top of the toliet and it has since progressed to our bed, his glider in his room, on chairs, on the couch, the other day I thought I was going to die when Jake told me what Liam had climbed.  There is a little white antique dish that I like to put candy in.  I don't always have candy in there but I started doing this around his first birthday.  I guess after seeing so many people get candy out of it, he decided he should too.  So he pulled the chair out, climbed up the chair and then climbed himself right up on the table and helped himself to 4 or so reese's cups!  Jake found him just going to town and doing it like he had been doing this for months.
Liam's latest obsession is being outside. The past week the weather has been in the 70s and he just loves being outside.  He loves screeching at the top of his lungs to hear his voice echo.  We have been trying to get the leaves raked up and clean up the yard but it is so hard to do yard work with him.  He is either trying to get into the pile I was raking in, bring something out he finds in the garage, he loves pushing his stroller around and loves to aim right toward the street.  He is constantly on the move whether it's running in the neighbor's yard or going up and down the stairs to smack the window to get the dogs attention, he makes yard work quite challenging. 
Each day I think he gets more and more vocal.  He jabbers on about what ever he is doing and his favorite phrase to yell or say is "Da".  He always calls out for Jake no matter what.  Even if I am sitting right next to him he says it.  He says Mama, Da, Ball, Dog, pup= puppy, "Uck=Yuck", mmm-hmm for yes. He can show you where his head, ears, belly, and toes are.  We are working on knees right now.  He can telling you what a puppy, a wolf, and a cow says.  My favorite is the wolf...so stinkin cute.  He has liked this for awhile but he loves being in just a diaper and would prefer to run around naked all the time.  Every time he gets out of the bath tub, I quickly half-way dry him off so he can sprint around the house naked for a minute.  It is so funny to watch him scurry around and his will get on all fours and walk around like moglie from the Jungle Book.  He thinks that he is hilarious. He loves when you say to him, "look at the belly"  he just pats his belly. He also thinks he is so funny to lean back like he is going to fall back and he makes this little face and he strains to lean back and hold himself up... He just cracks himself up! 
I will post some photos soon and get a video or 2 of him being crazy.
Other updates around the Schmitt Household....We are planning to put our house on the market the first week of March and hope that it sells.  This week we have started working on the house.  So far we have cleaned up the yard, Jake has been doing repairs to the ceiling and painting, we have removed the carpet from out room which currently has nothing in it.  We still have so many things to do and a Liam that is not conducive to have us working together to get things done.  Right now, our house looks like an episode of hoarders. The Man room has been dismantled and all of our bedroom is piled in the man room. It's so beautiful... photos will be coming shortly. Well that is all I can think of for now! Hope you enjoyed the update!!