Someone has to be Expecting in our Family

Now that Brianna has had her little Owen (who is adorable, by the way), I guess I'll take the job. We are expecting our new little one in October. We are very excited, but nervous, as we had a miscarriage nearly a year ago. However, I'll be 12 weeks this week and leaving the first trimester. We have had several ultrasounds and everything looks great. We are just praying it stays that way so we can have another October cutie.

Liam is doing as good as always. We had a nice weekend just relaxing before some visiting we will be doing in the next few weeks. Taylor has been practicing counting with him and he can count to 4 now. We also had a lot of fun coloring and playing in his new tent.

Not much going on this week. My last week before spring break. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Liam does look like he has some crafty ideas on his mind though. Hee hee.

Big Update

It has been forever since I have posted, so thought I would take everyone through one big update.

Sad News

On February 20th, we lost Taylor's grandmother, Momma. Taylor was able to see Momma two days before she died, although she was not awake at the time. It was nice to be within driving distance so we could do this and travel down to Virginia Beach for the funeral. Momma was just one of the greatest people I have ever known and we are missing her so much. It does help that Liam was able to get to know her even just a little bit and it was always so great visiting with her and watching her get so much joy from spending time with both her grandson and her great-grandson. While Liam will miss out on more time with her, we have these memories that we'll be able to share with him when he's older.



Family

We have been lucky enough to spend a ton of time with family lately. It is so great to see Liam enjoying his family so much. He LOVES spending time with all his grandparents. We were able to see Katherine, Judd, and Ben the weekend of the funeral. Liam is really starting to take more interest in Ben and vice-versa. One morning, I had Ben on my lap on the couch and Liam was sitting next to us and bouncing around being silly, showing off. The two boys would just look at each other and crack up laughing. It was really cute. Liam was also to spend some time with Taylor and Tooey working on a shed that Tooey is building. He LOVED that as it involved spending the majority of a day and a half outdoors, which Liam cannot get enough of. Here are some pics of recent family visits:

Goodnight Moon with Mimi

Visiting with Mike

Development

Liam was exited out of Early Intervention this past month. While he still struggles with a couple minor things, he has improved tremendously. Any delays he does have are minor and he has actually caught up in most areas. Liam is running full-force and can jump over things now (like a stick). He is also going up and down the stairs on his own (although supervised).

He talks all the time (I mean, nonstop!) and will speak in sentences up to 6 words. He is also starting to sing. He tries to sing the ABC Song (he pretty much just gets up to D) and can sing the first line of "Twinkle, Twinkle", but just sort of peters out on the rest of the song. He knows what numbers are can count to 3. The other day, he also counted (out of the blue) "5, 6, 7." He knows his colors and some of his shapes (triangle, circle, square...working on rectangle).

Liam is finally sitting still to listen to books, which seems small, but is actually huge. He still doesn't really like TV at all. The only shows he'll tolerate for short periods of time are Rachel Ray and Sesame Street.....although his Baby Signing Times DVDs are always an option, as he LOVES those still. He is getting really creative in his play. He loves to play in his kitchen, mop, sweep, and vacuum. Washing machines are also a really big thing with him. He cannot get enough of them and insists that we visit the machines whenever we are in Costco or Sam's Club. Cars, trucks, planes, trains, etc. are always big, of course. Especially as we recently went on a plane and bus....very exciting and Liam now loves make the noises of these vehicles.

Liam is still sleeping a TON. Bedtime is at 7:00 p.m. and he wakes up between 6:30 and 7:00 most mornings. At school, Liam sleeps 2 - 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon. At home, he takes a 3 - 4 hour nap. He is still in the crib and LOVES his sleep sack. We will probably move him from the crib soon as he does well with his travel bed, although he had some issues with our latest trip (hee hee).



It has been so much fun to see him grow and learn. We think a lot of it has to do with his new school. He is doing REALLY well there. His teachers are amazing and they keep him so busy. You can tell he is learning so much. All the activities they do are so much fun. They've been working with money, rainbows, planting shamrocks and are working on Shopping this week. We are so happy we moved him there

Travel




We recently took a trip up to VT for a Wezwick family ski trip. We all stayed at my uncle's ski house with my uncle, aunt, cousin, his wife, and their daughter, Ryan. Liam had a blast. My dad, Johnny, Mike, Liz, Michaele, Bryan, and Taylor would all go skiing, and Liam hung around the lodge with Mary, my mom and me. Probably his favorite part was his first time sledding. Liam named the sled "the whale" probably because it is blue. We would walk him around the street, but the most fun was probably taking him on the snowmobile trail. My mom, Taylor, and I took turns running and pulling him on the sled. Liam (as you can see) had a blast:







Liam also enjoyed time with his aunt and uncle:






Coming Up

We are finally starting to catch our breath and slow down a bit. We were able to spend our first weekend home in the past month. Liam is getting to be such a little boy now and loving all his time with Daddy doing boy things. We are really happy we are getting this extra time together with Taylor being home more since it seems that he will be deploying after he graduates in December/January. We will be visiting both sides of the family soon and look forward to a visit from the Easter bunny. We are also hoping for warmer weather during spring break so we can go camping. Only two more weeks!