Liam is 33 Weeks

Liam's big milestone this week is he has 2 teeth coming in!  His new food this week was green beans, and he really loved them!  He's sitting very well now, and he can go from sitting to his belly without toppling over.  Today we went to brunch with his cousin Madison, and Aunt Tiffany.  He sat in the booster seat for the first time!  After we went to Toy R Us and got 2 new toys.  One is stacking cups, and the other is a Fisher-Price phone that teaches the alphabet, numbers and plays music.  Liam's pictures also came in the mail, they turned out so well.  When Mike went to pick up the prints at Costco, they asked what his name was, and then they said; "Oh, you are the one with the really cute baby".

Liam is 32 Weeks

Liam goes through different phases where one week he's fairly quiet and another week he is more 'talkative'.  Well this week was one of his 'talkative' weeks, and probably the loudest and most vocal we have heard from him so far.  It's most pronounced when he's excited, he will just scream and blabber on, as if he's telling a story about something that happened that day.  He has taken a liking to our dogs too, and he will stare at them and just start giggling.  His two new foods that he tried this week were butternut squash and peaches.  We also gave him some apple juice in a sippy cup...great pucker for that one!  He also got two new toys, a toy piano and a toy cell phone.  He has been doing new sounds and movements with his mouth too.  One new one we noticed in the last couple days was he started clicking with his tongue. The other impressive move we noticed today was he was able to get his toe into his mouth!!  He has also started to reach his arms up to us when we go to pick him up.  It is such a subtle thing, but it is so sweet and endearing.  We just are constantly amazed at what this little person can do!

Liam Laughing
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"We LOVE LOVE LOVE this video of Liam laughing. It was taken on 7-6-08, one day before he turned 7 months."

Liam is 31 Weeks

We have been pretty lucky lately with Liam, he had another happy week.  It seems we have finally got a routine down.  It varies a little each day, but generally speaking he has been pretty easy going.  His sitting is improving more and more.  I would not say it's quite 100%, but fairly close.  He is not crawling yet, which is OK with us because we are not in any hurry for that one!  He does scoot on his tummy though, and rolls like a champion now.  He started doing this clapping thing last week, it's not quite clapping hands together, but rather up and down, almost like rolling them.  He continues to teethe, but still no teeth poking through yet.  He tried 3 new foods this week, first one was carrots, he really liked those, second was apples, and the third was pees.  He seems to like the vegetables a little more since they aren't as tart.  He has been doing this really cute thing lately, he likes to blow raspberries on our shoulder or arm, and sometimes our face.  It's pretty funny.  It seems like we waited so long for him to start laughing, and now he laughs and smiles a ton!  It doesn't take much to get him to be happy, even when he's upset we can usually coax a laugh out of him. Although we have noticed that he gets bored pretty easy, and we constantly have to find ways to entertain him.  We look at him each and every day and feel so grateful to have him.  ( I know I say that all the time, but it's so true!)

Liam is 30 Weeks

Liam had another pretty good week this week.  Early in the week we went to visit some friends who were having a brunch at their home, and he was really cute with all the new people.  The older kids were playing in a wading pool and Mike put his feet in the pool, he wasn't too happy about that, might have been too cold for him.  For a couple of nights we had him in his own crib during the night, although it's pretty rough in the middle of the night to go up and down the stairs, so we are taking that one with baby steps.  One of the questions for his evaluation for the doctor last week, it asked if your baby can pick up small items like a cheerio, we tested it out, and we were amazed at how meticulous he was picking it up with his thumb and pointer finger!  He tried a couple new foods this week.  The first was banana flavored rice cereal, which he seems to like better than the plain flavor.  The second was mashed banana baby food, which he made the funniest faces with the new tastes.  He has been sitting so well this week too, each day it seems he gets better and better at it.  And now that he has discovered that he is mobile he is always on the move.  He rarely likes to lay down anymore except to drink his bottle.  He just loves to roll all over the place, and with help he likes to stand and jump!  He has also been more sensitive to sounds around us, and if he gets startled he will look to us for reassurance and comfort.  He also has started to cry when we leave him in his crib for a nap, he has outgrown the wrap, and he doesn't want his binky any more either which makes nap time a bit difficult at times.  Thankfully though he usually will settle down after about five minutes.  On Thursday we had a professional photographer come over and take pictures of him.  She said he was such a good model baby and did some positions that were hard to get other babies to do-we were proud parents for sure!  He wasn't shy at all with her or our good friend Heidi who came to visit us from Seattle.  She played peek-a-boo with him, and made him laugh a ton!  He was really cute!