May 23, 2010: 21 months and 16 weeks (pregnant)

I cannot believe summer is almost here! This year has gone so fast. We have been in our home one week and are def feeling settled even though there are still rooms you can't walk through because of the boxes :) Liam is totally in love with the house and his room. We have hung all his sports memorabilia, he reads books in his baseball bean bag chair, and puts our change in his baseball piggy bank...def a "big boy room". His bathroom is all transportation, and he LOVES the letters of his name that used to hang above his crib in LA. Since they have vehicles on them, they now hang above his mirror and he starting to spell his name everyday which is precious. Speaking of spelling, Liam's new favorite songs to sing are BINGO and Old McDonald, so I guess you could say bingo and eieio are some of his first "words" he learned to spell :) He still loves his trains and cars and now has a facination with pushing them backwards. He loves when I have to back up in the car and starts screaming "go backwards mama!". He has also started walking backwards which is kind of funny, cause he has to really concentrate. He seems to pick up and use phrases I don't even remember teaching him. Last night we were all sooooooooo tired. Nick worked half the day and we spent the day unpacking, installing baby gates, playing at 2 parks, and cleaning (plus the fact that Daddy and Uncle Cameron had been out partying till 4am the night before!) So yes, we had every intention of going to bed while it was still light out which meant putting Liam to bed at 7pm (he usually goes down at 8). Anyway we went through the routine, put him down, and left the room. Over the monitor he cried for a minute and then began talking. Now, we often hear him talk saying the funniest phrases like "mama, dada sleeping, mmm hmm" or "go away bug" (no we didn't go in his room when he said that, I just really hope there wasn't a bug in there). Anyway last night when he went to bed early we heard him saying "not fair mama, not fair". We almost died!! Where does he get this stuff? It was so cute and so sad at the same time. Needless to say, we all got 12 hours sleep and woke up feeling much better this morning. I do have videos of Liam counting, singing, and doing ABCs...but of course haven't found my video camera in the move...sigh, until next time I guess. Liam has also started to pick out his own clothes and attempt to dress himself. In his new room he finally has two dressers (they are mine that were given to me by Grannie). I moved all his clothes to the bottom drawers so he can get in them and pick his clothes. Here is one oufit he picked out and here is our conversation while looking in his drawers.
Me: What do you want to wear today?
Liam: Wear messy! (that's what the shirt says on it)
Me: Okay, what shorts do you want to wear with it?
Liam: No pants.
Me: Hmm okay, so what else are you going to wear then?
Liam: Wear boots!

Alright, dude go for it!

Every morning (well every meal actually), Liam sits at the kitchen table to eat and looks out into the back yard. We have our own "pet" bunny rabbit who apparently lived here before we did and decided to stay. We also got Liam a water table since everyone (ie. his playgroup) has one. So at every meal he begs to go outside and "go find bunny rabbit" or "play in ocean" (Sidenote: Since we lived at the beach, we started calling Dal's pool an ocean...now Liam calls all bodies of water the ocean). Actually there are days when I just open the blinds at 7 am and he is asking to go out. He loves, LOVES his back yard. Here is one of those days when he went out at 7am....yes he's in his Thomas the Train jammies still :)
I also have to post our blue bonnet pictures from a few weeks ago. We were lucky that it was almost the end of the season and that there were no law officials around because Liam was definitely more into picking them then sitting in them :)



We also had our first day at Mal and Dal's pool today! The swim lessons really paid off...Liam was kicking, paddling, going under and floating. Of course there was a popsicle break involved....

On to ziggy. First, I'm so sad to also admit I have a 12 week ultrasound photo that I haven't scanned to post yet. I know a month late, but I'm going to get it posted because this is their baby book. And besides, Nick took one look at it and determined the sex....which no you can't tell yet, much less who can read those blurry early ultrasounds?! But it was still so funny and I guess we'll see if he's right in about a month! ziggy is FINALLY letting up on me a little. I have only taken zofran twice this week, and really only been sick once. I'm feeling back to normal and really starting to love being pregnant again. My bump is coming back sooo much faster the second time. I hear that's normal but right now, I look like I did when I was 6 months pregnant with Liam. I can't lie though, I love the bump :) And since I finally told my work, ziggy can come out of hiding. It was getting pretty tricky that last week, so I'm sure they weren't totally surprised when I announced it. One of the sweet things that my children share are their nightly talks. Yes every night Liam lays his head on my tummy to "listen" to ziggy. Sometimes he jumps up with a really excited face and goes "come 'er dada, listen ziggy!!" So then Nick will listen too, to what is probably air bubbles :) Liam also tells ziggy "love you" and I can't wait till he can feel ziggy moving from within. Here is one their talks...(please excuse my tummy from this angle, blegh)

Finally, we want to send a special Get Well message to Lynn! She recently took Liam for frozen yogurt(s) with Mal and Dal and plays cars with him...she's def in with him :)

Yup...he's double fisting it :)