Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Yes the baby's rollin', Rawhide!

Yes folks, the bug is rollin' and we saw it first hand! So I am at daycare today and Patti asks me if Liam rolled over last weekend. I reply no and look at her face and know that he rolled over at her house. But she didn't see it. He did it twice and both times when she had her head turned. So home we go and Baby hits the floor for some good time rollin'. Sean leaves the room and VIOLA he rolls over. Clapping, smiles and cheers from mom ensue. Sean comes running. He then teased Sean by almost rolling over about three times and just when we thought he was pooped...BAM another roll! This child is amazing.

Grams (Taylor) sent some goods in the car that Sean picked up from Salt Lake City. The cutest little cowboy boots, a book about a cowboy, cowboy socks and the sweetest baby cowboy hat EVER!

Mystery Solved!

Someone has been making noise in the JumpaRoo and Sean and I could not figure out who it was, so we set up a camera to catch the culprit and look who we caught in the act!!!! Sweet Baby Liam :)

Another weekend has zipped past with the blink of an eye. Sean is currently, as we speak, driving his way back from Salt Lake City and should be here in about 1 and 1/2 hours! His parents were generous enough to pass on Grandma Catherine's car to Sean and I gotta say the timing was amazing. Sean's Jeep has been a GREAT car but I think his time has come. Seeing that the car was in Colorado Springs, they drove it to SLC and flew back to CO and Sean flew to SLC and is driving it back to OR. Just what he wanted to do on a weekend off but we are not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth (can someone please explain that saying to me??)

In the meantime Liam has become quite the talker. Most mornings, on the way to daycare, he talks and coos to me and there is no better way to start the day. Recently I have been working on noises to get his laugh going so you will hear that in the video. Right after I turned the camera off he was laughing for a good minute. Something tells me I am going to have my hands full with this one. Enjoy.....

Almost

Liam is SO close to rolling over, from back to tummy. We know he can do it only because two different times when we have gone to check on the sleeping angel he was sleeping on his tummy. When we let him play on the floor I would say he is about 85% there. We will keep practicing and of course announce it on the blog when the big event has happened.

4 Month Check Up

Today was a day. 4 months = shots. Ouch! I am thinking that each time he goes for vaccines it is going to get harder since he has tears now. The look on his beat red face after the second shot was the WORST. The good news is that he is now 26 1/4 inches (90 percentile) and weighs 13.7 lbs (25 percentile). Looks like we have to fatten our little bug up. The Dr said he is a perfect looking little boy so we were quite happy leaving the office.

Work was very busy for me yesterday so the day moved a little faster than normal. Nothing else new for us.

Still Missing Him

12:35pm PST and still missing my bug. Saw him at lunch. I thought it was supposed to get easier but today has been the hardest day yet! I am so happy the weekend is coming up. MOVE CLOCK MOVE!! My heart hurts.

TGIF

It is 9:26am PST and I am sitting at my desk at work.

I MISS MY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Little Bug at Daycare

So I was supposed to, or meant to, take a picture of Baby Liam on his first day of daycare but I forgot! My bad, this picture of the second day will have to do. I gotta tell ya, my kiddo is getting all the attention and stimulation he can handle! Patti gives me great updates and the best part...I go to see him at lunch and she helps me time it so I can feed him. Today I got to do a bottle, diaper change, and put him down for a nap. I went back to work on cloud nine, I could still smell him on me. The ability to cut my day in half with loving on my baby is amazing :)

He Can Bring A Smile to Your Face

Sean took this video about 2 days ago. Good stuff because it includes the cute baby coos and babbles AND a couple of really great toe grabs. His feet are a favorite of his lately.



So seeing I am writing this post must mean I survived my first day back to work. Liam must have known it was the first day because he was up at 4:40AM....35 minutes before the alarm. I got him dropped off OK and amazingly enough found out the drive from Patti's to the office was just enough time for a good cry and eye make up touch up. I went back at lunch and gave him a bottle and tons of kisses and that was a good fill to get me through the rest of the day. Being away from work for 4 months also kept me plenty busy and that helped the day move a little faster then I thought. My plan is to visit my little sweetie pie at my lunches. Now that we don't get home until 5:00PM the time just flies until his bedtime. He went down at 7:15 tonight so that only gave us a little over 2 hours to love on the munchkin. Now that is going to take A LOT of getting used to.

Test Test...This is a Test

So blogger now has this video download/upload feature, I thought I would give it a try. This is a video I think I was taking to send to Sean in China. Here he is 15 weeks old :)
Now that I know that this works I will get a laugh on video to post! Stay tuned....

A Big Week of Firsts!!

This past week has been full of firsts for Liam..even some firsts for mom and dad too!

Wed morning was Liam's first trial run at daycare. I had the plan to wake at 5:15, feed and change him and hop in the car at 6:00 for a 6:30 drop off. It was a little warm here in Portland that day so I had the fan going that evening. Needless to say, I awoke twice throughout the night to check the time. The third time I checked it read 5:55!! Yikes, the first day and already late! Up I jumped, hair in ponytail, grab jeans from the floor, pull a tshirt from the drawer and hope there are no stains on it. I wake Liam up, he smiles, my heart melts, and off we go. Made it to Patti's at 6:30 (the traffic gods were smiling on me). Patti is this WONDERUL in home daycare provider that a few friends have used and highly recommend. We chat, I run through some things with her, her with me. And before I know it I need to leave, like right then and there. I make it almost to the car before the tears start. Thankfully my friend Robin (happens to be a Patti reference) works at the crack of dawn and has done the whole Patti daycare scene. I dial her up, we cry together, and then she talks me off the ledge. I rush home to shower (it had been 2 full days since this body had seen soap)so I can at least look decent for picking up Sean from his return from China.
Sean made it back from China safe and sound. Those pajamas from the previous post are even cuter in person.

So Sean got back on Wed morning and we had SPAMALOT tickets for that evening. Ahhh, the date night :) That means the first babysitter night. What was I thinking putting the first daycare drop and babysitter on the same day! Well Jill and her sweetie pie daughter Amanda show up, a few minutes early, bless their hearts. I couldn't even go over and kiss my baby good bye because I was afraid of the tears and I knew I did not want date night to include tears. SPAMALOT was SO funny, please go see it if you are a Monty Python fan, the acting and music was excellent.

Friday was another daycare drop and it was still so wierd to leave him. I completely trust Patti but she isn't me. I will not feel guilty for daycare. I do want to work. I know I will have to deal with a little bit of heart break every day I leave him. At least she is close to my work so my plan is to visit during my lunch time. I normally eat lunch at my desk anyway so how great is getting to see my little bug half way through my day :)

Liam attended his first MICHIGAN Portland Alum football game on Saturday! Liam was among 124 other fans and alum. We won't mention the final score because it need not mentioning. He was the best baby (of course). He had him in a maze/blue outfit with MICHIGAN booties (thank you Alicia) and his MICHIGAN blanket (thank you Robin). The blanket was a hit with the table sitting behind us. I took a great shot of Sean holding Liam but we can't get the dang thing off my camera...stupid technology. I will post it if we can ever move it.

Tues is my first official day back, please say a prayer for me.