First off, Liam is now a full-fledged Oriole and doing REALLY well. He has almost no accidents anymore and did not want to leave school the other day. When we got there, he was sitting at the computer with a couple of his friends "checking his e-mail". He seems to be warming up to his new teacher, Miss Patricia and enjoying being around kiddos closer to his age. Plus, as he constantly reminds us, "they have a boys bathroom and a girls bathroom." Apparantly, this is huge. :)
He did celebrate Christmas with his old class. Taylor and George were able to make it to the class party, which Liam LOVED. My sweet child, of course, did not want to have anything to do with Santa or sing Jingle Bells with the other children, but still seemed to have fun nonetheless. One thing that was really cute was that his teacher gave all the kiddos VHS tapes of Disney movies and none of the children seemed to know what a tape was. It totally blew Liam's mind. Here are a couple of photos from the day:
Yay...Daddy came!!
What is this?!
Opening Gifts
This past weekend, we traveled to NJ to visit with the Wezwick side of the family. Liam traveled really well. We drove at night and he pretty much slept both ways. He LOVED seeing everyone and, of course, enjoyed opening all his wonderful presents (he got spoiled!) Two of the biggest hits were a Thomas cup on a strap and a dino rocker:
Mr. Man also enjoyed Christmas at Julie's on Sunday and eventually passed out from all the excitement:
Christmas Eve and day were spent at home with the Basye side of the family. Liam was full of meltdowns, but still seemed to have a ton of fun. He really enjoyed seeing his Cousin Ben. Another fun thing was giving him his new PJs on Christmas Eve (a tradition Taylor and I started for him since his first Christmas). He really liked them because they were "jacket" jammas and therefore, super fancy. You can see how proud he was of them:
Christmas morning, Liam was kind enough to sleep in until around 7:15 a.m.!! When he got up, he ran downstairs and asked where Ben was (he had only come over for Christmas Eve). Once we explained that Ben had to go home, Liam ran over to the tree and began tearing open the first gift he could get his hands on (it happened to be one for George). Big hits that morning were a Geotrax set that George got him and some new Thomas PJs. As you can see, once he opened them, he instantly stripped so he could put them on:
Liam enjoyed having his Mimi and Tooey here, even though he had a few meltdowns. He'll be returning to school tomorrow and then next week, we'll have to sit him down and try to explain to him as best you can to a 3-year-old that Daddy is deploying. I'm sure some of his behaviors will get worse before they get better, but he's a sweet and strong kid with a ton of family that loves him and I know that he'll get through this just fine. Besides, how can you get too down in the dumps with a kiddo like this around:
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