Sesame Street LIVE!

Mim-Mim and Pap bought us tickets to see Sesame Street Live at the new SKYPAC in Bowling Green. Are they super or what? Even Pap went with us!

The boys were READY and PUMPED! I think I had their shirts made backwards though. Lincoln is for sure the cookie monster...

Me and my babies!

It took an extra arm to get Liam to hold still long enough for the picture. You can tell how much he is enjoying being held down.

Liam was super excited for all of about 8 minutes. Then he wanted to get down in the aisle and crawl around. In retrospect, I will suggest NOT taking a less-than-one year old to an hour and a half theater production. But we managed. Lots of snacks, toys, and cotton candy helped us through (dont judge me!).

Lincoln was fully engrossed in the show - he never moved from Pap's lap. I'm not sure he really knew what the heck was going on, but either way, he seemed to be enjoying it!

After the show, we had to stop at Jerry's for some hot fudge sundaes (oh, jerry's... how I miss thee). And of course we had to go out and check out the cattle trailers that pulled up while we were there. We had a super fun night -- thanks Mim-mim and Pap!!

10 months

Look what A big Pete this guy is! Liam is now 10 months old - and it's getting harder and harder to seperate the laundry at my house!

Little Mr. is still army crawling the majority of the time, but he has started *occassionally* hands and knees crawling. He's so much faster when he army crawls, I just don't think he cares to change things up now!

And he's started "walking" the furniture all around the house. "Scoot -- Scoot -- Scoot" all the time with our chairs. He tries his best to stay wherever big brother is, so whichever method will get him there is what he tries.

He is wearing size 18months, size 4 diapers, and size 4 shoe. He is eating pretty much anything you'll let him get a hold of - but he'd prefer if you didn't give him any baby food... He loves cheerios, graham crackers, toast, and anything he can steal off of Lincoln's plate. Especially Lincoln's sippy cups -- he'll do just about anything to get one of those!

He cruises around everything now, and is able to use "push toys" as long as he doesn't have his socks on (that's slippery you know!).

His loves right now are the train table (demolishing it), the toilet paper (unrolling it), the dog food (eating it), and the pantry (dismantling it). He's not destructive at all... *dripping in sarcasm*

He will now attempt to say Moose (moo) and he barks at moose a lot, as well. He also likes to get into yelling competitions with Lincoln. He usually starts them by yelling at Lincoln - and big bro gets a kick out of trying to be the loudest. He usually loses, by the way...

Liam is super social and will go to anybody. But he prefers his momma... (big grin from momma!) He gives big open mouth kisses when you ask, gives high fives when prompted, and can show you his teeth (really just sticks out his tongue).

Speaking of teeth, we are up to 8 I think.

Liam usually goes to sleep around 9, is up once during the night (yep, that's payback alright) and gets up for good at 7ish. Probably my fault that he gets up during the night, because when he wakes up hollering, I run in there. I SURE don't want him to wake Lincoln up! But normally, he takes a bottle and goes immediately back to sleep. Either way: Dear Liam, please stop waking momma up at random hours. Thanks, the sleepy momma

I love this little sugarbear!

Happy Birthday Pap!

All Pap's babies got together to celebrate his birthday!

Helping blow out the candles...

This only looks sweet and innocent!

Fishing with MimMim

Lincoln found uncle Nathan's old world series hat. Rockin' it!

Annalee and Liam enjoying the party. This is the only time Liam sat in one spot all day long. That kid is a wiggle worm!

How sweet is she?

He is, for sure, Pap's buddy!

Liam does not enjoy ice cream!

Loungin! I think this picture is so funny!

Going for a wagon ride.

Hope you had a really happy Birthday Pap!!!

Heart Day 2012

What could be better than these two handsome men on Valentine's Day?

Oh, yeah - these THREE men!

Liam was less excited about his gifts and more excited about Lincoln's candy!

Thanks to Pinterest (you know, that website that completely sucks you in and makes you think you are crafty, a chef, and a stylist?), I used Lincoln's hands and Liam's foot into a cute little masterpiece. Lincoln did the polka dots "all by maself". Made one for each of the grandparent's and they actually made more sense. They said, "from the bottom of our hearts to the tips of our toes, we love you!"

He also helped me make these so-very-pretty jello parfaits (also from pinterest). I note that they were oh-so-pretty because it's much more positive than telling you that they were oh-so-crappy. My husband actually said he imagined that the top layer was the same texture that he would image flesh would be if you were biting into it. Yum... Don't make these... Don't be like me...

Relaxing, watching the "pad"

Couldn't have asked for better Valentine's dates this year. We stayed at the house and I broiled steaks - hubs made asparagus. Works for me... :)

thoughtless thursday

Not too many words behind this one due to time crunch! But here are some of my favorite pictures of late: Liam is into EVERYTHING. New favorite food: anything that he can pull out of my flower arrangement... :(

He acts just as bossy as he looks...

Relaxing in the "gradge"
I told Lincoln we needed to take a snack break, and he said, "if you say so!"

throwing bread in for the fish at the "big creek" (the big pond - or LAKE for you evansvillians - down the street)

"what all is in this wagon?"

Such a ham!

Yes, his face is most usually this dirty..

9 month update!

At the end of Liam's 9th month, and I am having a really hard time processing that he's this big! I've probably said it before, but time seems to be going so much faster than it did with big bro. Here's an update of happenings with Liam this month... Liam is 23 pounds (72%) and 29 inches (68%). He is wearing 18 month clothing, a size 4 diaper, and a 4/5 shoe. He is going to bed at 830, and getting up around 7 (although lately we've been trying to wake up around 4 to eat.... grrrr) It's hard to let him cry very long at night because I'm afraid he'll wake Lincoln up! So instead, sometimes he ends up with a bottle REALLY early... Oh, well. He is taking a full 8 oz bottle in the morning and at night, however, rarely finishes his two 8 ouncers during the day. He would MUCH rather have real food. He loves toast, chicken and veggie soup, weenies (gerber), yogurt snacks, and any cereal. He has become a champ at using a straw and loves chocolate milk, and he has also become a pro at using a sippy cup and loves apple juice. And mommy loves apple juice because it helps keep him *regular*....

More teeth managed to pop through this month. The top two lateral incisors, as well as one of the bottom laterals are now here, bringing us up to a total of 7 teeth! Bring on the ribeye!

This kid is for sure going to be my drama king... He can throw a fit like none other, and if you make him mad, you may as well forget consoling him. He's just gonna cry till he's done! I mean look at that face, all cause I didn't pick him up in time! He is also quite the momma's boy. And I'm not complainin a bit... :)

He wants to be wherever Lincoln is and will basically chase him all over the house. Sometimes big bro is cool with it, and sometimes he wants to be left alone. I can foresee this trend lasting a LOOOOOOONG time...

Liam started "crawling" right at his 9 mo birthday, and although his belly never leaves the ground, he gets wherever he wants to go. He has also started pulling up to everything! Particularly loves the train table, and loves to disassemble it... Which Lincoln HATES... I have tried and tried to post a video of this kiddo crawling, but blogger just doesn't want me to post it obviously? I'm trying again, so fingers crossed.

He has also started pulling up... to EVERYTHING... Train table, stairs, couch, and lots of things that aren't sturdy enough to pull up on (leading to more than one bruise!). He hasn't really started cruising yet, but anyday now.

He and Lincoln also get in "arguments" now. This is hilarious and I have yet to catch it on video. Lincoln will yell, "hush" at Liam and Liam will reply with a loud mock. They'll go back and forth forever - Liam thinks it's so funny! He is also trying to get "moose" out. We've gotten "moo" a time or two so far! Mom called me the other day to tell me that he had made a beeline for a matchbox car that Lincoln had been playing with, picked it up and said "bbbrrrrr" like Lincoln does.

Look what a sweet little face. Liam is my cuddlin, momma lovin, dramatic, inchworm. And I love him to pieces!

Where do these things come from?

A mini Lincoln update: "cooking" in the kitchen floor

This child has been a real riot lately. Some of the stuff that comes outta that kid's mouth - I mean, really? Where did all this spunk come from all of a sudden?

tickling Liam

Here are some good "Lincoln-ism" as of late:

I was getting onto him for making a mess the other day, and in the middle of my rant, he says, "Mommy - hush! Be quidet! Wiam is sweeping!!" (Pretty sure I know where he's heard that one before)

While he was making a mess in mim-mims closet, I walked in to make him get out. He says, "mommy - stop! Evweething thats in this woom.....Stays in this woom" (Insert lots of hand gestures on that one)

He's figured out that it's a lot of fun to pick his nose lately (I think just because we tell him not to). Here are a few comments we've gotten when telling him to stop: "I WOVE to pick boogers!" "Wait a minute! It's vewy impoatant!" "This one wooks wike a snake! a BIG snake!"

"We go to Tahget? I WOVE tahget!" - he definitely hasn't heard me say that!! ;)

He's also learned some valuable coersion quotes lately. When he's doing something he knows he's not supposed to do, we frequently here "Mommy, I wove you..." or "did you see dat?!?" Either of which he assumes will redirect our attention I assume.

Potty training is going pretty well. Peepee is pretty much down pat (as long as we give LOTS of reminders) but pooponpotty (as he says) is just eh... We have been experiencing some constipation issues lately, probably related to holding it in to avoid the potty. Either way, the other morning, I went in to get him out of bed. He says, "mommy, I pooped in bitches. It was hard to get out. I got a book, I wead it to you!" I guess he thought the latter would distract from the poop delimma?

licking the brownie batter

Other common sayings:

"I wove you" (most commonly heard when talking to pap)

"You need hewp?" (the other day at chicfila's germpit, a little girl got stuck climbing. Lincoln steps up and says, "you need hewp wittew giwl?

"I don't wike dat"

"I can not bewieve it!"

"be pa-tent" or "be safe"

"don't bover me!"

"see, I toad you!"

"dangit" (really proud of that one....)

See what I mean? He has really been cracking us up. And most usually, it's things he shouldn't really be saying, and how hard is it not to laugh! I'm trying to do a better job of recording these things... PS - it's really hard to type in Lincoln-ese...