ONE year old!

my little cowboy with his pawpaw

walk the walk

so. cute.

eleven

e xcited about anything with wheels!
l earned to throw food from high chair into floor so cache can eat it
e xclusively IN TO E V E R Y T H I N G!
v ery silly fake laugh!
e veryday you take some steps...but you still don't trust yourself to walk!
n ot a fan of sleeping!

and you love your new toy grammy and grampa sent you!! your facial expression is priceless!

yard helper

TEN

Liam is 10 months!!!  Here's the top 10 things I love about him at this age:

10. he cruises in circles around the ottoman and is so happy about it

9. he laughs at his dog Cache, chases him, and pulls up on him

8. he refuses to eat baby food anymore and only wants whatever mom and dad are eating

7. he loves to be outside and often gets caught eating nature!

6. he loves when his daddy throws him high in the air, or hangs him upside down

5. he gives me a  huge hug when I get him ready for the bath

4. his favorite toys to play with are books, balls and cars

3. he's got his daddy's goofy personality

2. he just barely got his two bottom teeth

1. he's starting to get bashful with strangers, he smiles at them and they buries his head in mommy's shoulder

nine

Dear Liam,
    You are nine months old!  That pretty much means you've been on the 'outside' longer than you were on the 'inside!'  Pregnancy was l.o.n.g and I was so anxious to meet you.  Now that you're here, time FLIES.  Just in the past month you have changed so, so much.  Now you are mobile!  You can get where you want.  I wasn't call it the conventional 'crawl'...but you know how to get around and can even do it one-handed!  It's really hilarious, actually.  Since you can get everywhere now, you are also into EVERYTHING, busily discovering your world all day long.  You love to be standing up, you can cruise around furniture, and can sometimes pull yourself up from sitting.  This is cute, until I am trying to put you to bed - then you just want to practice and practice your moves and it's hard to lay down!  In the middle of the night, too, you sit yourself up and you are still half asleep wondering why you are sitting up!  Silly kid. You can say dada, mama, buh-buh, nuh-nuh...but I don't think any of them have meaning to you yet.

    You just get more and more fun, and change so fast I cherish every single day I have with you.  It's actually getting harder to leave you when I go to work.  You are fine with it, but mommy misses you too much.

    Your favorite things to play with are the TV remote, my phone, your play keys, balls of all sizes and recently you're into cars.  Such a boy.  You love to eat all fruits - even really sour ones.  Your favorite snacks are animal crackers and baby 'veggie cheetos.'  All the green stuff that's good for you isn't your favorite.  Just like your daddy.

    People always stop me in the store and tell me how handsome you are!  Yesterday at Walmart, a Mennonite lady eve rolled down her window in the car next to us as we were loading just to tell me what an adorable baby you are.  I totally agree!  You light up a room when you come in, and your smile is so contagious.  You love to laugh.  Grandpa Layne made you laugh harder than ever when he visited a week ago. You often laugh at Cache and of course when we find your ticklish spots!  You have also learned how to  fake cry and fake laugh.  So funny.

I love you more than you'll ever know.  Well, until you have your own babies...then maybe you'll know.  I don't know what me and your daddy would do without you.  You are the center of our world and we wouldn't want it any other way!

love you.
mama