Big Boy Beds, Make a Mess, and Breaking Uncle Bryan's House

Well, life has been busy in the Basye household and many changes are afoot. The first is that last weekend we went to visit Taylor's parents in Virginia Beach and found that Mr. Man had grown to the point of having netting prints on his face after a night in the pack and play. He's just getting too long for it. While he did not complain, Taylor and I decided that we needed to figure something out. A friend of mine had recommended the Kids Aerobed and said that it was on sale through Amazon, so we bought it. It arrived Wednesday night and Liam was sooooo excited. He insisted that we set it up immediately and begged to sleep in it that night. To our surprise, sleep he did with absolutely no trouble at all. He slept the whole night and stayed in bed when he woke up until we came in his room. When I told him what a big boy he was to sleep in a big boy bed, he said. "I LIKE it! It's nice!" Needless to say, it was a huge hit. Here are a couple of pics of the big boy and his new travel bed:



First night sleeping out of the crib:



The bed takes literally 30 seconds to set up and comes with a cozy fleece coversheet. I highly recommend it if you have a little one who travels. It's also a good size and will last him years and years.

This weekend, we traveled up to New Jersey to break Uncle Bryan's house. Well, actually, we helped him replace all the windows in his house. Liam wore his Home Depot apron and brough his hammer so he could help out.





He was soooo good despite all the craziness and cold weather. He mostly just walked around and talked to everyone and watched all the work. We thought that there was no possible way he would nap with all the noise, but he managed to fall asleep on Uncle Bryan's bed, thanks to a heated room and an Ipod for music.



It was so much fun to see everyone and break stuff. Ha ha! All windows were replaced and a lot of progress was made on the basement. I even got to use a power saw and break down a wall. :)

Today, we drove back to VA and found this waiting for us:



This is pretty much Liam's first realy snow that he is able to experience. He kept thinking it was raining, but eventually got it when we went for a walk to get the mail. He seemed to like it until he fell in the snow and got REALLY mad when he hands got cold. After that, it was straight back inside. I did manage to get a few pics before that, though:

Walking to the mailbox

Checking on Mama

After the fall, but before the screams

It is still snowing and sleeting outside, so we are hoping for our first snow day. Not much else going on this week. We are in the process of looking at a Goddard school opening up, so may look at that for him. Taylor also goes back to school this week. Looks like it's just Liam and me again!

Don't forget to check out all the pics posted at Liam's flickr sight and video site. There's a really hilarious video where Liam tells you what a fish says and more pictures of this past weekend.

My Very First Gift!

Okay, Liam totally made my day today. I have taught him (of course :) ) to say "Mama rocks!" Well, when he went down to the park with Taylor today, he picked up a rock and said "Mama's rock." He insisted carrying it around the whole time and then bringing it home for me and kept telling Taylor "Mama's rock."

This is the first gift that he has picked out for me all on his own and is already sitting on my desk in it's own special spot. I included a picture of him showing me the rock he picked out. :)

To top it off, we were playing tonight and I pretended to make a sad sound and he stopped dead in his tracks, ran over to me, and began rubbing my back saying "You okay? You okay?" It was the first time he has done something like this.

And as a finale, he sat in the rocker with me and let me read him two books beginning to end. He NEVER does this with me...which just about kills me as a teacher. It was the best end to a day ever!!

My Mr. Man is just so sweet.

Quiet Weekend

Not much to report here as we stayed home this weekend. Yesterday morning, all three of us headed out to the garage for some organizing fun. We sorted out a bunch of Liam's baby toys and contraptions to sell on craigslist and put aside several bags of clothes for cousin Ben to go shopping in. It's always a little bit sad going through some of Liam's baby things as I miss the newborn stage so much! While every age is fun and new, in some ways it was nice when Liam was tiny and cuddly.

Mr. Man spent the rest of the weekend keeping us on our toes. One habit that I am really happy about is that Liam is really using his manners A LOT! He says "Thank you," "Your'e Welcome," "Excuse Me", and sometimes "Please." What's really cute is when he doesn't want to do something (like go to bed) is now he'll say "No thanks!"

This week should be a quiet one. Liam has therapy this week and we'll be finding out about transitioning him to the school system since they do that at 3 years old (although I don't know that we'll go this route since we're putting him in private schools). Taylor will enjoy his last week off and I'll be busy teaching and meeting like crazy (I have 5 meetings and an assembly this week...ugh!)

Anyway, not many new photos, but thought I'd share a couple of Liam and I out walking tonight and blowing bubbles. Have a great week!