Update

Wow it has been since Christmas since I posted last.  Nothing really special going on.  Just growing like a weed.  He will be 15 months old the end of this month. :(  He is walking everywhere and has even started running at times.  He gets into everything!  He would much rather chew on the dog toys than play with his own.  His favorite place to be is in the bathroom.  I think he has a sensor and knows when I forget to close the bathroom door.  He gets in my drawer that has all my pony tail holders and bobbie pins and throws them everywhere.  He also likes our toothbrushes and we occasionally find him in his room chewing on them while he watches tv.

He still only has 6 teeth.  Four on the top and two on the bottom.  He is a good eater still.  Unless you give him peas and carrots.  He loves peas and picks them out and leaves the carrots on his plate, or gives them to the dog.  He is in size 4 diapers now.  Not really sure how much he weighs, we go to the Dr. here soon.  He knows all the sounds to Dog, Cat, Cow, Pig and Chicken.  Ask him to shake his booty and he does just that! It is soooo cute!  He loves to dance.  Disney Channel is still his favorite.  Right now he is hooked on Special Agent Oso, but will watch any show that comes on.

Temper, temper, temper.  This child can be the cutest, sweetest little boy and at the drop of a hat be mean.  He doesn't like to be told No and will fall to the ground fake crying.  Or he will give you his bad eyes and hit you. Urgh!  I hope that this isn't a glimpse of what we have to look forward to and is just a phase.  Please let this be a phase! lol

I have had a birthday in this lapse of blogging.  Just another day really.  I had my second 25th birthday. :) Here is my baby in his birthday suit!

We also missed Valentine's day.  Nothing special there either.  We all got cards and candy.  Liam got new sippy cups with straws in them.  Ryan and I signed up for the 5K Foam Fest and that was our gift to each other.  I had to work. :(  But I got a message while I was at work .....

He will forever be my Valentine!!!!

I have become kind of obsessed with working out and running.  Summer is coming up and I have not only had a child but I feel I have let myself go.  I want to be healthy for Liam and want to be a good example for him.  So, on days that I don't work I spend about 2 hours running and weight lifting.  This year will be the year of 5K races for me.  They are keeping me motivated to keep going.  So far I am signed up for Manchester's St. Patty's Day 5K, The Color Run and 5K Foam Fest.  There are many here in town that I need to sign up for and there is the Glo Run coming up that I want to do too.  I started on my birthday and its been 5 weeks now.  I am proud of myself.  I haven't really seen much progress but I know that I can't stop.  My partner in crime is my BFF Holly.  Our friend Troy is our own personal trainer.  He is working on his personal training license and I highly recommend him when he gets finished!

I took the course for my handgun permit and qualified the same weekend.  I go to get my fingerprints this week and then it will be official!  Bobbi and I qualified together.  Here we are with our silhouettes. Oh, and Liam loves to wear my earmuffs!

We also turned his carseat around a few months ago.  He had started kicking the seat so we figured it was time.  We also put new DVD headrests in so that keeps him preoccupied while I'm driving.  He loves that he gets to look outside and see everything the right way!

Im going to end my blog with a picture of my little model.  And he loves his Aunt Maggie!!!!

Training Partner

Yesterday Liam was my personal trainer.  Holly and I have been training to run a 5k and yesterday I couldn't find anyone to watch him so that I could run, so we decided to push him in his stroller.  In a regular stroller. :S Needless to say it was tough and I need to find a running stroller!  It was his nap time so I was hoping he would fall asleep and in the last five minutes he finally did.  There was too much stuff going on at the beginning and he was too interested in the new scenery and reading his Mickey Mouse book.  We went around the neighborhood until we finished our intervals. It is so much easier to run outside than it is to run on a treadmill.  Now i dread it when the weather is yucky outside because that means I have to run inside.  Here are some pics from yesterdays run.

Christmas 2012

Christmas, my favorite time of the year.  This year I didn't have to work Christmas Eve or Christmas. Thank goodness since I worked every other holiday just so I could be off for these two.  Christmas for my family is a two day event.  We have three places to go on Christmas Eve and two places to go on Christmas.  So needless to say I am one tired puppy after Christmas Day!  I can't believe that I didn't take my camera on Christmas Eve :(  I have so much other stuff to carry I totally forgot about taking it!  I made sure that I had it Christmas morning!  I was so excited for Liam.  He is at that age where he doesn't understand but he has fun opening gifts and playing with all the toys!

Christmas Eve starts out at the Gilley's around one or two.  We eat, exchange gifts, open them and then we play dirty santa!  This year got a little racy! HAHA  After that we do the Brasfield Christmas around five or six.  This year was at my parents house. We pretty much do the same things as the Gilley's.  We eat, which is always breakfast, open gifts and play a cleaner version of dirty santa.  Lastly, we go to the McWhorter's and start it all over again.  They eat before we get there because by the time we get there, we are stuffed!  Once we get there, we exchange gifts and do dirty santa there as well.  We are so blessed to be able to have a Christmas like we do!  We love and are loved by so many it's overwhelming!  We wouldn't be who we are or where we are today if it wasn't for each and every one of them!  

Christmas morning we wake up early and do Christmas at our house.  After we go to my parents and open gifts and eat breakfast there.  After that we go to Ryan's parents and eat breakfast again.  We open presents there and then we head home and nap.  I get tired just typing all this and remembering how wore out I was!  I love everything about it though and can't wait to do it again in another year!

Here was the tree and all the gifts that Santa left Liam!  And my new pillows that Ryan didn't wrap!

 Here he comes to see what Santa has brought him!...

His new bookcase with all the books that he opened since December 1st.  I also found a cool website where I could get Disney movies really cheap.  I ordered him all the "guy" Disney movies to watch :)

Opening up his Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Thomas the Train shirts...

Our next stop was my parents house.  We eat breakfast and open up all of our gifts!

My happy baby in his Santa Claus PJs

G got Liam a new hat.  He thinks it is funny that she is trying to wear it ....

After my parents we go to Ryan's parents.  Ryan helped cook brunch for everyone while I played with Liam.  Here he is with the Furby Nana Jo and Papa John got him.

We have no place to put all this stuff.  It took me all day to put this stuff up.  I still find stuff laying around that I have no place for.  This is why we need a bigger house!

Liam's 1st Birthday

I have been having issues with space availability to upload pictures.  For some reason I no longer have that problem and I'm able to finally catch up on my blogging.  This post will probably be mostly pictures because Angela pretty much captures it all in every picture.  Having her there was probably the best choice I made.  I was able to enjoy his birthday and not worry about getting that perfect shot.  So thank you, Angela.  You are my life saver!

We chose to do The Very Hungry Caterpillar for his birthday.  I had seen other people do it for their kids and thought it was cute, so around the time he was 6 months old I started researching birthday stuff.  If it wasn't for Pinterest and Etsy his birthday wouldn't of been as successful!  Here are some pictures in the events that they happened (there were 225 pictures to choose from and all were sooooo good!)

Cookies by Phoebe's Cookies in Eagleville.  And they tasted just as good as they looked! ...

Cake by The Cake Lady in Manchester. Jennifer never does a bad job!

Liam and his girlfriend Kenzie...

Four Generations!

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us.  We appreciate each and every one of you.  You all have and will shape him into the man he will be one day and we couldn't ask for any better friends and family!

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!