So Liam has been in a terrible mood for... a while now. My wonderful mother-in-law sensed that I needed a break like nobody's business so she offered to come up and watch the kids so that Zachary and I could get away. We were planning on going to the Navy football game but it was raining so we had breakfast at my favorite, favorite place, The Breakfast Shoppe, where I had a delicious ham, sausage, bacon and cheddar omelet. And then Zachary had to do some stuff at work but I got to take a nap. And then we did some shopping and went to dinner and then... Zachary got a tattoo! This was the before picture... probably would have been better with short sleeves but it was cold!
And the after!
These are the Gaelic astrological signs for me, Liam and Malia- Zachary read that it is common for family members' signs to be joined by the one long center line consistent in each one so that's what he did! He says it's like carrying his family with him which will be even more significant when we go back on sea duty and he has to leave us from time to time.
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.
It's getting colder so it's finally time to wear some jackets! I love jacket wearing weather and can you get any cuter than this:
So the shaving cream wasn't a hit with Liam but he loved playing with pasta/bean mixture! He used his hands and a measuring cup. He put them in a bag, poured them out of the bag, put them back in, had a heck of a time!
Oh man it's been a long time since I've blogged- oops! I've successfully transitioned Liam out of Cypress Creek so we've got some more time on our hands. Which means I've got a lot more entertaining to do. I looked on pinterest and sensory bins kept popping up. So I did a little shopping and got some popular sensory bin items. I'm planning on organizing them later but I thought we'd start with letting the kids play with shaving cream. I can vividly remember being in third grade and my teacher, Ms. Quinn, letting us clean our desks with shaving cream and I loved it! I was thinking my kids might like it. Liam hated it. Malia loved it.
Today was another CDC day but Liam didn't go in until 10 so I had time to make some eggs for breakfast- Malia enjoyed them- Liam didn't.
We dropped Liam off and headed to the library for "Babies in Bloom." Malia spent the majority of the time were there standing in the middle of the room. But then the woman brought out bubbles and it was over. I took a video but this is the best part of it- I took a screen shot of her face when she realized the bubbles were within reach.
Then we brought lunch to Zachary- she got a free ride back to the car when we headed out.
We ran to target and got Halloween costumes (I got an email that their costumes were 40% off just today so duh, I had to go). Then we picked up Liam and came home. When Zachary got home, we headed to Anna Kate's house- she had a train table she wasn't interested in anymore that she wanted to give to us. Liam is a huge fan!
We had the room next to the kitchen serve as a little office. It had the computer, my keyboard and all my craft stuff. We had to get this fancy gate because given two minutes, Liam could do a ton of damage. Yesterday, Zachary was looking at the gate and said something to the extent of "man, if we had had this gate when we moved in, we could have made this the playroom..." and I thought, well we still have a while here so let's do it! So we did. Before Zachary got home, I moved everything but the desk downstairs and when he got home, we moved the desk and then put down the floor tiles that were in Malia's bedroom at the last place we lived. And we started moving toys up. I didn't make it to the gym yesterday but really, it wasn't necessary- I burned my share of calories running up and down stairs.
Now I just have to reorganize all of this:
and the downstairs will be a place for us to escape to. I've got my work cut out for me.
