I'm 12 Month's Old!!!!

Or should I say 1 year old? I officially have a toddler and refuse to think this way! He is my baby and will always be my baby! I have been getting pictures together for his party and I am amazed at how much he has changed in a year.  He is such a big boy now.  Here are a few of him over the year.

Still not walking yet :(  For the past month he has been taking steps then falling and crawling the rest of the way.  I am just waiting for him to just stand up and start running.  He will not let us hold his hands and help him.  He will walk around with a walker all day long.  He just doesn't want to walk alone yet.

We have six teeth, working on eight at the moment.  He chews on everything he can find.  It's getting hard to brush those little teeth because all he wants to do is bite my finger.

As for talking.  It's all still jibberish, really.  He still says "mama" and "dada."  He has started saying what sounds like "apple" and sometimes says "apple juice" but who knows what he is really saying. You can ask him where the light is and he will look up at the light.

We no longer use a bottle or formula.  He strictly uses whole milk in a sippy cup.  He is a little spoiled because he will not hold his sippy sup by himself.  He wants me to hold it.  We are working on that!  As for food, we mostly do finger foods now.  Chicken nuggets, french fries, PB&J sandwiches, any kind of chopped up fruit or steamed veggies.  He has become a bottomless pit.  He has always been a good eater though.

 As always for any kid, he loves bath time.  His favorite thing is to splash the water everywhere.  He has also found the stopper and likes to pull that out.

Happy 1st Birthday big boy!!! Mommy and Daddy love you!

This year has gone by so fast.  Words can't describe the love I have for this child.  Everyone tells you this in the beginning but you never understand it until you live it.  He has brought so much joy into our lives and I can't remember what we did before he was here.  I am so glad that we did professional pictures as often as we did and I hope that I continue that with the next one.  Angela Zuill met up with us at The Oaklands in Murfreesboro to take some 12 month pictures.  Here as some (because they are all so good) of my favorites!

You are growing up to be such a handsome and loving little boy!  As bad as I want you to stay as a baby I know that you will grow up to be a handsome and loving man too.  Stay sweet little boy! You are my sunshine, my only sunshine!

Thanksgiving 2012

Unfortunately I had to work Thanksgiving this year :(  But Liam didn't miss a thing!  The day started out at Nana Jo and Papa Johns house.  My parents picked him up around 12 and took him to that side of the family to hang out.

At Nana Jo's playing with my toys...

Here he is with Grandaddy ....

 My favorite little face :) ....

Always eating something!

Center of attention as always...

My Grandaddy!

Around 2 or so my parents took him back and he got to enjoy the Thanksgiving festivities at Nanny and Great-Grandaddy's.

Papa playing on the computer ... like always!

Blowing bubbles with Nanny ...

Liam and Nana Jo!

We are so thankful for all of our family.  Ryan and I don't know what we would do without him.  We are so thankful that we have not had to put him in a daycare and that he is able to spend time with the ones that love him most.  Happy Turkey Day!

Hairbrush

"Oh Where is My Hairbush? Oh Where is My Hairbrush? Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Where Oh Whererererererere is My Hairbrush?"  If any of you grew up watching Veggietales then you should be aware of this song.  If you are not aware then I suggest you look it up on YouTube! So last night around 1:00 Liam decides to get up.  Ryan brings him to the bed with us and I realize that he has soaked through his diaper and that is why he is fussy.  So I get up and change him.. He hates to be changed.  I have to preoccupy him with something.  The first thing I saw on his dresser was his hairbrush.  Needless to say he would not let it go.  Every time I took it out of his hand he threw a fit!  I finally got all his limbs into his outfit by switching the hairbrush from hand to hand as I was doing it.  After the outfit change, I sat him down and we rocked.  Every time I would think he was asleep I would try to get the hairbrush out of his hand and here we go again!  It was almost like a little tantrum in his sleep.  He would hold it close to his body with both hands.  It was PRECIOUS! After about 15 minutes he finally let go of it.  I thought for a little bit that he was going to be sleeping with his hairbrush!  If I had my camera I would of taken a picture but I was too tired and wanted to get back in my warm bed!

Happy Halloween!!

I had to work Halloween.  I found a coworker that came in a hour early for me so that I could go get Liam and take him trick or treating.  I picked him up from his Nana Jo's house and we went home and picked up Ryan.  Our first stop was going to be Trunk or Treat at church.  Once we got to the end of the road we saw how packed it was and decided that we would just take him next year when he could walk and really enjoy it.  I was amazed and proud of our church and what a good job they did.  Even though we only saw it from across the street. :) So we decided to just go to see Nanny first.  When we got there we put him in his cute little monkey suit.  She gave him money and snacks.

Great-Grandaddy was asleep so the monkey went to wake him up.

Next we went to see Nana Jo.  She gave him snacks and a movie.

After Nana's we decided to go to my parents house.  He was so tired so I just held him in the car and he passed out.  By the time we got to my parents he was a floppy bunny.  There was nothing we could do to wake him up.  Finally after about 10-15 minutes he finally woke up.  G and Grandaddy gave him and little bag with candy and straws and 2 Charlie Brown movies.

We then went to Aunt Mandy's and Uncle Lonnie's house.  As I was growing up it was kind of like a tradition that I always went to Aunt Mandy's for Halloween.  It was no different for this little monkey! They gave him a stuffed ghost.  BOO!

By then we were all tired.  We stopped by Jon and Emily's because Aunt Maggie and Uncle Mark were there.  We hung out for a little while and played with the dogs, then we came home and went to bed!

I'm 11 Months Old!!!!

This can't be possible!  Why does time have to go so fast?  Eleven months already?  Liam is learning so fast.  He is standing on his own and as of last night he took his first "real" steps on his own.  He has been taking one step and then falling down.  Last night he took about 3 steps on his own to get to me on the couch.  Thanks goodness that Ryan was there to witness it to.  With his crazy work schedule, I am always excited for him to witness something first hand with me!

He now has 5 little teeth.  His bottom 2 and then the 2 middle ones on top, then the one to the right of the middle one.  They sure do hurt when he bites too!


He is definitely getting his little personality.  He doesn't like it when you tell him NO!  He looks at you and pops that lip out like his feelings are hurt and he whines.   If he does something that makes a loud noise and scares him he looks at us and starts whining.  Once we tell him he is ok then he realizes he is fine.

This is a good picture of his new teeth and his whiny face all in one :) 

He is eating way more table food now.  I can give him whole biscuits and muffins and the bites off little pieces at a time.  I am still giving him baby food though because I still have so much in the freezer.  He is still a good eater and eats everything I give him.  Here lately he has not been wanting to finish his bottle after his meals.  I have been giving the rest of it to him at nap time just so that he will get in all his bottle.  Last night we tried whole milk to see if he would take it better.  I did half formula and half whole milk.  It didn't really seem to phase him that he was getting something different.  He drank it just like he would if it was formula.  I'm pretty excited that I will no longer have to buy formula!!! I only had to do it for 4 months but it was still expensive.  He has discovered how to get his snacks out of his little snack cup so he is constantly eating snacks.  His favorites that I mix together are puffs, yogurt puffs, cheerios and goldfish.

When Ryan is at home at night, he likes to eat ice cream before he goes to bed.  And guess what? Like father like son!.....

We have to block off rooms and close doors now because he is all over the house.  He is now trying to figure out a way to climb over the gate.  He isn't successful yet and I guess we will cross that bridge when we get to it! Haha!

Liam and Hartly have become close buds.  Hartly actually tolerates Liam now.  If he gets too rough then she just gets up.  But for the most part she lets him beat on her and grab her feet.  He has recently discovered her nipples and Hartly doesn't care for that at all!

He can clap now.  When we say, "YAAAY!!!," he gets those little hands to clapping.  He can click his little tongue and make that little popping sound when we do it.  And the other night he started snorting on command.  He is so funny.  We pretty much have "BYE" down now.  That little hand flopping up and down is just precious! (Don't mind the chocolate on his face, Ryan was giving him bites of M&M's!)

Next month my baby will be a toddler :(  There will be tears of joy and sadness!  I have been planning it for a while now and I am so excited for it to be here! Its going to be soooo cute!  He is going to be one cute caterpillar!!!

Pumpkin Carving

I sure will be glad when Ryan gets a day time shift!  Carving pumpkins by myself is no fun!  Aunt Maggie and Uncle Mark came over to carve their pumpkins with us.  At first Liam was afraid of the pumpkins but after a few minutes he was using them as drums!  Since we were in a hurry to get the pumpkins carved before dark and since I was doing 2 pumpkins, I didn't let Liam play around in the pumpkin mess.  I didn't want to have to give him a bath afterwards either.  And the thought of possibly having to dig pumpkin seeds out of his mouth was not anything I wanted to worry about.

I decided to be simple this year and just do faces.  So I did a funny face and a scary face.  I thought I did pretty good considering I had both pumpkins gutted and carved before Maggie had hers finished!