Well I've officially been talked back to. I told Liam it was time to get a diaper and he said no. Common. I don't consider that back talk... yet. So I was playing the game with him- yes it is, no. Yes Liam. No! Uhmmmmmm Yes! And he replied with "Uhmmmmmmmmm no." On the one hand I was very proud of him for doing such a great job imitating the sound I made but on the other... that boy's got an attitude on him.
Also, yesterday was a year from the day Malia had her seizures. It's so interesting because at this point with Liam we were starting to discuss taking him off his anti-seizure medication but with Malia, she's already weaned off and has been for a while now!
Also, we've thrown away the bottles. My favorite story to tell about our pediatrician, Dr. Modi, is the first time we met him, he asked Liam if he knew why he was still drinking out of a bottle and he said, "because mommy and daddy let you." His advice was to throw away all the bottles and make his only option a sippy cup. We didn't throw them away because I was seven months pregnant at the time but we did hide them and that was the only way we got him off the bottle. I tried to introduce sippy cups to Malia more gradually, starting at 6 months but she wasn't ever a fan. Now that she's well over one, we decided it's time to lay down the law. This time we did get to throw them away because there is no baby in the near future.
Also, Liam is developing some skills of his own! He's learning to undress himself- he didn't get the snap undone but he did some good work with the zipper.
After being gone last weekend for the marathon, Zachary had duty today so we are definitely looking forward to tomorrow, getting him back, and also next weekend to have a whole weekend together. We started our day off with breakfast and, of course, some Mickey Mouse. I'm not proud of it but I'm all about survival right now and that involves Mickey Mouse. There are worse things.
Then we headed to Target and Carter's and Michaels. I am on a mission to get this girl off bottles. I'm tired of the parts. I've been using bottles for over three years now and it's gotta stop. Hopefully one or more of these will do the trick.
It's not looking promising...
Today Malia tried two new things: Liam's sippy cup and eating directly from a fruit pouch!
The fruit pouch had a promising start...
...but this is how it ended up:
Liam went to the CDC (Child Development Center) for most of the day- we had a pretty low key day- getting some stuff done around the house. Here's Malia drinking some water from her sippy cup- she doesn't get much out but I think it's probably good for her to get used to the cup now that she's interested in it.
We are convinced Liam grew overnight because yesterday his shoes fit fine and this morning it was hard to get them on so we looked at the Navy Exchange and found some tennis shoes and some sandals for the summer- here's one of his new shoes:
Then we went to Ruby Tuesday- Zachary loves the salad bar there and he always gets a few things for Liam and now Malia to snack on while we're waiting for the meals to come out. They both ate some carrots, grapes and peas. After Liam ate his meal, he decided to use his leftover honey mustard as a dip for his sugar packet...
Malia finally got Liam back for all the things he's stolen from her and she grabbed Liam's cup. I have no clue if she got any juice out of it but it was cute to see her grab it and put it straight to her mouth like she was saying, "I know what to do with this." Also Liam did something awesome today- he said "pink fork" at breakfast which is significant because he, completely on his own, generated a two word phrase. He's been using two word phrases with our help but for him to say "pink fork" on his own was huge and exciting! Also Malia stood up in her pack 'n' play which is hard to do! There's nothing really to grip on like if she had pulled up to stand using the couch or a table or something. Lots of achievements today!
